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Duke University announced its COPE fund in October of 2010. COPE, which abbreviates the Compact for Open Access Publishing Equity, is a movement for colleges and universities, mostly through their libraries, to provide financial support, usually reimbursement, for the article processing fees that some open access journals charge. The basic idea is to see to [...]
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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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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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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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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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Recommended Readings- A State Law Approach to Preserving Fair Use in Academic Libraries"By David R. Hansen" Posted by klsmith to myblog contracts copyright on Thu Sep 15 2011 […]
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- A State Law Approach to Preserving Fair Use in Academic Libraries
As Duke University’s first Scholarly Communications Officer, Kevin Smith’s principal role is to teach and advise faculty, administrators and students about copyright, intellectual property licensing and scholarly publishing. 
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