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COPE, Renewed

On June 30, 2011 By

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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Open access, copyright wars and the Trojan horse

On June 15, 2011 By

On our recent trip to Turkey, I happened to be wearing a SPARC open access t-shirt on the day we visited the site of ancient Troy, and my wife took a picture of me holding a model of the Trojan horse with the t-shirt.  How one views the Trojan horse, of course, is a [...]

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Double talk

On April 21, 2011 By

For almost two years now a small group of lawyers and repository managers in the U.S. have been discussing and drafting model language that libraries can use to insert in vendor contracts with publishers that will ensure the self-archiving rights of faculty at the specific institution who publish in the journals that are part of [...]

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Retractions and the risk of moral panic

On April 15, 2011 By

Several people sent me a link to this story from the Chronicle of Higher Education reporting on a study that finds that biomedical researchers continue to cite and rely on published articles even after the papers have been retracted.  My initial reaction was what I presume it was supposed to be – “Gee, that’s [...]

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There’s more to life than copyright

On April 7, 2011 By

It is a hard lesson for me to learn, but there are other issues related to scholarly communications besides copyright.  Today’s news has focused attention on free speech issues for academics.  Now we have talked about free speech as it is impacted by copyright, and some interesting examples of how copyright can be welded to [...]

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GBS and GSU: two cases, going forward

On March 23, 2011 By

The last week has seen two important decisions in copyright cases with significant interest for higher education.  The first, of course, is the rejection of the amended settlement in the Google Books case; that decision has gotten lots of attention, so instead of rehashing it I want to suggest what I think the [...]

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Libraries, pricing and piracy

On March 17, 2011 By

I recently told the north Carolina Serials conference that the so-called “journals pricing crisis” had outlasted any meaningful definition of the word crisis and was no longer the driving force behind our discussions of scholarly communications, if, indeed, it ever was.  Nevertheless, it simply will not go away, as witnessed by another round of library [...]

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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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