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Patent reform, publication and repositories

On March 11, 2011 By

Patent reform has been percolating in Congress for quite a few years now, and I have to admit to being caught off-guard when I saw the announcement that a comprehensive reform package had passed in the U.S. Senate by an overwhelming majority.  This story about the bill (which has not been passed in [...]

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What’s Arnold Schwarzenegger got to do with copyright?

On March 7, 2011 By

I can’t ignore termination any longer!  This is a copyright subject that has significant implications for academic authors, so it needs to be discussed in this space.  But until this week I have not been sure what to say or how to say it.  Fortunately I can now point readers to some entertaining explanations of [...]

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The citation advantage for OA data

On January 24, 2011 By

As an added benefit from the close proximity of the Science Online 2011 conference, we were fortunate, in the Duke Libraries, to have a chance earlier this month to meet and talk with Heather Piwowar.  Heather is a post-doc researcher working for the team developing Dryad, a data repository sponsored by the [...]

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Economics is a dangerous game

On January 18, 2011 By

Late last month an editorial appeared on a blog for publisher Wiley in which two editorial executives start off talking about online publishing.  The discussion is fine, if predictable and self-serving, until it turns to models of open access.  “Gold” open access is mistakenly identified exclusively with “author-pays” models, even though the majority of [...]

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B8, OA, GSU and the crux of the matter

On November 10, 2010 By

During both the Berlin 8 conference and the Open Access Week events at Duke, the word “sustainability” was everywhere.  At the conference in Beijing, for example, the question was posed to some publisher representatives about what they needed to support OA.  Their answer was a sustainable income, not surprisingly.  Similarly, at a panel discussion on [...]

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Staying out of boxes

On November 7, 2010 By

One of the observations that gradually dawned on me as I listened to the presentations made at the Berlin 8 Conference on Open Access was that there was a clear difference between those countries, like the US, where scientific publishing is dominated by commercial publishers and those where the majority of the publishing is still [...]

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A little justified bragging

On November 4, 2010 By

It is delightful to be able to report on the impact made at the Berlin 8 Conference on Open Access by the presentation on Duke’s OA initiatives by Paolo Mangiafico, Duke’s Director of Digital Information Strategy.  Paolo told a packed room about all of the various ways in which Duke has pursued open access for [...]

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Berlin in Beijing – first impressions

On November 2, 2010 By

The week that my colleague Paolo Mangiafico and I spent in Beijing for the Berlin 8 Conference on Open Access flew by, so my first impressions are actually being written after our return, based on notes I made during the conference.  This post is an attempt at a summary of the event, while later [...]

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Faculty support for Open Access scholarship

On September 22, 2010 By

As we publish a series of posts in this space about open access in preparation for Open Access Week from October 18 through 24, it seems like a good time to interrupt ourselves and note three recent articles in which faculty authors express support, in a variety of ways, for open access to scholarship.

The [...]

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Can we protect “traditional knowledge?” Should we?

On September 15, 2010 By

In much of the world, the possibility of providing protection for traditional knowledge — indigenous music, stories, dances and even genetic material — is a very lively topic.  Even though such protections are a form of intellectual property right that clearly impacts issues of scholarship and copyright, I have not previously dealt with these discussions [...]

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