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Creative Commons and Proprietary Licences
With the Creative Commons 4.0 licence just on the horizon, there have been some questions raised about the use of proprietary licences. Perhaps the most comprehensive trashing comes from the...
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The Battle for Open Access: Making More Books Cost-Free and Effectively...
As it currently stands, the battle for Open Access is in full swing on some fronts: no better is this exemplified than in the growing number of Open Access Journals. Still, whereas journals and...
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First up, we have an excellent video on What is open access? by Nick Shockey and Jonathan Eisen. It’s a nice introduction that takes us through the world of open access publishing: And here’s this...
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Do scholars prefer to apply restrictive licenses to Open Access articles?
A researcher who decides to publish in Open Access, not only chooses a publishing model, but he also needs to choose one of the available copyright licenses for a published article/book. The question...
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Open Access in Aotearoa –An excellent example of promoting Open Access
Despite the rapid pace of development, Open Access still needs to be promoted amongst scientists and researchers, as well as those who wish to use free access for research results. This is especially...
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OA Friday: Should CC do away with proprietary licences? #OpenAccess...
This is something I’m going to try and do every Friday: take a topic on OA and then try and encourage some discussion via the usual outlets (Twitter, Facebook and our own comments section below)....
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Open Access is not Copyright Piracy!
Some time ago Social Science Space published an article by Robert Dingwall daringly entitled “Why Open Access is Good News for Neo-Nazis”, where the author spoke about Open Access in the same breath as...
View ArticleHow To Publish an Open Access Book
Assumptions are dangerous, yet I will dare to make one here: if you are reading this post you are probably already convinced that publishing your research in open access is the way to go. This text,...
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The Journal of Library Administration – Not Open Enough – Editorial Board...
The publishers, who decide to issue journals or books in OA model, among other things, need to balance the level of openness and closure for their titles. Sometimes this goal is not easy to achieve....
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Do researchers prefer more or less restrictive Creative Commons licenses?
Some Open Access advocates opt for permissive licensing of scientific works, in particular for the use of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license. It allows republishing, translations and...
View ArticleDe Gruyter supports the use of Creative Commons licenses
Copyright protection is one of the key issues facing an information society, and the question of licensing is taking on major dimensions. Licenses have to protect the interests of authors, while at...
View ArticleJeremy Huggett, Davide Tanasi: What we want from open?
Thanks to digitalization, open data, open source and citizen science can play a huge role in contemporary archaeology. But researchers should first of all answer the question: “what do we want from...
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Over 600 thousand academic articles under Creative Commons Attribution...
Despite the conservative view on copyright, shared by the majority of academic authors, liberal licences dominate open access publishing. Does some unspoken tension between academic authors, funders,...
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The mystery of Creative Commons licenses
While more than half of open access papers are published under the terms of a liberal Creative Commons Attribution Licence, the majority of authors of open access works seem not to accept the terms of...
View ArticleThe Journal Publishing Market Between Supply- and Demand-Side Models: The...
Without significant support for Open Access journals, large-scale transitions to Open Access may be slow to come, as the German case indicates. A Blog Article by Pablo Markin. In their recent news item...
View ArticleAcademic Self-Publishing Makes Market Inroads with Open Access Offerings and...
Lulu, a book self-publishing platform, has recently launched Glasstree Academic Publishing, a division targeting the academic market, in a bid to disrupt existing scholarly publishing models. A Blog...
View ArticleA Growing Number of International Open Access Initiatives Are Launched by...
As the august American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) founded in 1848 and publishing Science and other scientific journals, has announced on November 21, 2017, its Science Partner...
View ArticleThe Directory of Open Access Books’ Growth Accelerates Despite Download...
As the Directory of Open Access Books has reached 10,000 titles in its catalogue in late 2017, it reflects an accelerated pace at which publishers join this Open Access initiative and make available...
View ArticleScholarly Initiatives Use Open Access to Primary Data to Stimulate Scientific...
Global scholarly portals in areas as different as African poetry and disease epidemiology plan to utilize Open Access to original texts and health-related data sets respectively, in order to support...
View ArticleDo researchers prefer more or less restrictive Creative Commons licenses?
Some Open Access advocates opt for permissive licensing of scientific works, in particular for the use of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license. It allows republishing, translations and...
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