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Science Commons and SPARC have teamed up on Open Doors and Open Minds: What Faculty Authors Can Do to Ensure Open Access To Their Work Th...

On Tuesday, April 22, 2008, I spoke at the launch of Creative Commons Ecuador , which was held in the context of a conference on measuring ...

The first copyright statute was adopted by the English Parliament for the "encouragement of learning." How well is copyright doin...

In the wake of the Supreme Court's Grokster opinion , legal scholars are analyzing when a business can be held secondarily liable for co...

I'm about to experiment with a new practice - the RFA (request for article). This is analogous to an RFC (request for comment) or RFP (...

The revised NIH Public Access Policy goes into effect on April 7, 2008, and universities, medical research institutions, and other grantees...

Prompted by differences of opinion about the Harvard FAS policy, I want to clarify where Stevan Harnad and I agree and disagree about the re...

Stevan Harnad is a forceful advocate for open access, and I agree with most of what he advocates. I do have a different view than he does a...

If it hasn't started yet, there's going to be grumbling soon enough when the reality of the NIH and the Harvard Faculty of Arts ...

Among universities in the United States, Harvard has just increased its competitive edge by adopting a faculty resolution to grant the unive...

The power of the Harvard policy is that the authors are precommitting themselves to open access (subject to the waiver option), and that mea...

One reason why the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences was wise to pre-commit themselves to grant a license to the university in articles t...

[ Disclosure: I've been a supporter of the Harvard initiative since its inception and have provided informal input to its proponents pe...

On Tuesday, February 12, 2008, the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences came together as scholarly authors and collectively agreed that in t...

I'll have a lot more to say about the NIH mandate in the coming weeks. For now, here are the basics. As part of the Consolidated Approp...

There are two big developments for Open Access going on right now. In December, Congress directed NIH to make its Public Access Policy mand...

This has been a big year for Creative Commons: The amount of cultural works shared under a CC license continues to grow rapidly; Volun...

In arguments about open access, commercial publishers do their utmost to minimize rhetorically the value they receive from free articles and...

Once again, Allan Adler's back with the private market canard . Mr. Adler is vice president for legal and government affairs at the Ass...

First the good news. After years of work, Open Access advocates successfully persuaded both houses of Congress to include a provision in th...