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Society publishers: time to quit whining and make the leap to open access
The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) just released a report called: The potential effect of making journals free after a six month embargo. Conclusions are that: "the...
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Publishers' Association survey on subscriptions: methodological critique
Correction June 6: the 2006 ALPSP report Survey of Librarians on Factors in Journal Cancellation is on the ALPSP website, here: http://www.alpsp.org/Ebusiness/ProductCatalog/Product.aspx?ID=26 Only the...
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June 30, 2012 Dramatic Growth of Open Access
"As the costs of publishing continue to be driven down by new technology, we will continue to see a growth in open access publishers. This new and innovative model appears to be the wave of the...
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Oxygen is not a free lunch (environmentalism for the free market believer)
The right wing think tank The Heartland Institute - one of the main funders of climate change denial - claims that we should look to free market solutions to environmental challenges. While I strongly...
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In the opinion of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
It is the opinion of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP), that open access mandates with short embargoes will lead to journal cancellations and threaten the survive...
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Wiley moves toward broader open access
An important announcement from Wiley about their move to broader open access through use of the Creative Commons - Attribution (CC-BY) license for Wiley Open Access Journals. This is a strong...
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Dear Creative Commons: please drop the gratuitous insult
Creative Commons has a new license chooser with an added feature: it tells us whether or not the license that we have selected is a "Free Culture License". For the record, I do not agree with whoever...
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CBC Radio Interview August 13, 2012.
This clip of my CBC Radio Early Edition Interview August 13, 2012 with Kathryn Gretsinger (about 10 minutes) is a reflection on the significance of the University of British Columbia Library / Elsevier...
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CC-BY and - or versus? - open access
Many in the open access movement consider CC-BY, the Creative Commons Attribution license, to be the very embodiment of the spirit of the Budapest Open Access Initiative - giving away all rights to...
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Will open access article processing fee publishers do the right thing and...
This summer the Research Councils U.K. adopted a stronger open access policy, as explained by Peter Suber in the September 2012 SPARC Open Access Newsletter. While the strong support for open access,...
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PLooS, or contemplating new IJPE series: poking fun at CC-BUY
I am debating starting a new series on IJPE: poking fun at CC-BUY (a reference to those who confuse the Creative Commons Attribution-Only license with open access.Where to start? PerhapsPLooS U.S.Open...
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Thank you, open access movement! September 30, 2012 Dramatic Growth of Open...
On this Canadian Thanksgiving weekend, this issue of the Dramatic Growth of Open Access is dedicated to all of the many millions of people around the world who make open access happen - the scholars...
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CC-BY: the wrong goal for open access, and neither necessary nor sufficient...
An argument that I see as important but missing: is CC-BY even an appropriate goal for open access at all? This is a separate question from whether it should be a short or long-term priority.I argue...
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Canada - ACT NOW if you care about democracy
Update October 14 in The Tyee - excerpt:"By Nov. 1 three of China's national oil companies will have more power to shape Canada's energy markets as well as challenge the politics of this country than...
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Gaming the scholarly metrics - lessons for altmetrics
Thanks to Scott Timcke for a pointer to this excellent article and great summary of how to game your impact factor. This is a timely discussion, not only for impact factor but even more important for...
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Creative Commons and Open Access Critique series
This is a series of posts critiquing the trend towards adopting a particular CC license as a standard for open access. My own views are that we don't know what the best approach for sharing scholarly...
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Why CC-BY will sometimes be a violation of research ethics: weight loss ad on...
This example is meant to illustrate one of the reasons why I recommend AGAINST CC-BY as a default for open access. CC-BY is the Creative Commons - Attribution Only license, giving blanket permission,...
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Open Access Week 2012 presentation
Open access: a critical perspective, a powerpoint presentation for my Communications 435 class (information rights in the information age), is posted on the CMNS 435 course blog here. To download,...
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Show respect, share knowledge, acknowledge creators: good guidelines for...
Noteworthy - good guidelines for using public domain materials from Europeana. Not legal requirements, just good advice. This is what I call articulating the commons. Thanks, Europeana! (and...
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Delightful irony: students for free culture adamantly opposed to license used...
Larry Lessig's book, Free Culture, was the inspiration for the Free Culture movement, released as a paperback as well as a free online book, using the license CC-BY-NC 1.0 (...
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