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How Could An Open Access Scholarly Journal System Look? A Scenario Analysis, Maurits Van Der Graaf, Leo Waaijers

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Ralf Schimmer’s blog “Making the moves for large scale transition toward Open Access” makes the case to achieve such a transition by means of offsetting deals. The urgency for such a transition is emphasized by the recently announced ambition of the EU to have “Open Access to scientific publications as the best option by default by 2020”i. This should be done “in a cost-effective way, without embargoes, or with as short as possible embargoes”. In this blog, we explore and analyse the scenario whereby this transition will be brought about by successful offsetting deals, meaning that ultimately all articles in …

Can Scientists And Their Institutions Become Their Own Open Access Publishers?, Karen Shashok

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This article offers a personal perspective on the current state of academic publishing, and posits that the scientific community is beset with journals that contribute little valuable knowledge, overload the community’s capacity for high-quality peer review, and waste resources. Open access publishing can offer solutions that benefit researchers and other information users, as well as institutions and funders, but commercial journal publishers have influenced open access policies and practices in ways that favor their economic interests over those of other stakeholders in knowledge creation and sharing. One way to free research from constraints on access is the diamond route of …

Crown Copyright: An Overview For Government Departments, National Archives, United Kingdom

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The purpose of this guidance is to provide government departments with a general overview on how Crown copyright is managed. It covers the following: What is Crown copyright? Copyright ownership, re-use of Crown copyright information, and copyright and publishing.

Updating The Agenda For Academic Libraries And Scholarly Communications, Clifford Lynch

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This issue of C&RL is focused on scholarly communication, and it seems appropriate, in this invited guest editorial, to step back and examine the broader agenda that academic and research libraries need to consider today in engaging with scholarly communications as a way of framing the issue. My view is that this agenda is ripe for re-thinking. The overall environment has changed significantly in the last few years, underscoring the growing irrelevance of some long-held ideas, and at the same time, clearly identifying new and urgent priorities. What I hope to do here is to summarize very succinctly my thoughts …

Democratizing Academic Journals: Technology, Services, And Open Access, Scholastica, Danielle Padula, Björn Brembs, Stevan Harnad, Ulrich Herb, Roxanne Missingham, Dan Morgan, John Ortbal

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This white paper delves into:

• The past and present state of journal publishing

• Current alternatives to the corporate publisher model

• Steps to realize sustainable, open access-friendly journal models of the future

This paper argues democratization of journal publishing is the key to lowering journal production costs and facilitating OA. Members of the academic community, either at established not-for-profit organizations or through informal groups of editors and advocates, must break up the corporate publisher conglomerate by taking control of journals and developing funding, access, and distribution models that work for their disciplines. This paper explores how widespread adoption …

A Genealogy Of Open Access: Negotiations Between Openness And Access To Research / Une Généalogie De L'Open Access : Négociations Entre L'Ouverture Et L'Accès À La Recherche, Samuel A. Moore

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Open access (OA) is a contested term with a complicated history and a variety of understandings. This rich history is routinely ignored by institutional, funder and governmental policies that instead enclose the concept and promote narrow approaches to OA. This article presents a genealogy of the term open access, focusing on the separate histories that emphasise openness and reusability on the one hand, as borrowed from the open-source software and free culture movements, and accessibility on the other hand, as represented by proponents of institutional and subject repositories. This genealogy is further complicated by the publishing cultures that have evolved …

Library As Publisher: New Models Of Scholarly Communication For A New Era, Sarah Kalikman Lippincott

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Why Library Publishing?

In a post on library publishing for the influential Scholarly Kitchen blog, publishing consultant Joe Esposito (2013) asked rhetorically, “Why would anyone want to get into this business when those of us who were already there were trying desperately to get out?” The publishing community has established that publishing is not easy, it is not usually profitable at a small scale, it is in a constant state of “crisis,” and it is dealing with a variety of challenges and tensions, from changes in technology to changes in the marketplace. So why don’t libraries leave this up to …

Theft! A History Of Music: A Tale Of Law And Music That Leads Through The Gates Of Time! [Tales From The Public Domain], Keith Aoki, James Boyle, Jennifer Jenkins

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Back cover text:

This comic lays out 2000 years of musical history. A neglected part of musical history. Again and again there have been attempts to police music; to restrict borrowing and cultural cross-fertilization. But music builds on itself. To those who think that mash-ups and sampling started with YouTube or the DJ's turntables, it might be shocking to find that musicians have been borrowing-extensively borrowing-from each other since music began. Then why try to stop that process The reasons varied. Philosophy, religion, politics, race--again and again, race--and law. And because music affects us so deeply, those struggles were passionate …

Ownership Of Intellectual Property In The Library Complex, Patrick Roughen

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

In order to broadly explore intellectual property in the context of the library complex, this research examines the patents produced by companies that provide goods and services to libraries, as well as patents associated with international libraries. This paper also surveys the trademarks and copyrights held by Charlotte Mecklenburg Library, located in Charlotte, North Carolina. This research suggests ways in which development of intellectual property by U.S. libraries might evolve in the future, with evidence obtained primarily through the searching of online databases.