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jwilbanks | April 6, 2009I don't like getting into blog back and forths, but this post from the Information Research folks really deserves a reply of its own. I believe this is an honest piece of confusion, and it's likely the result of FUD from the traditional publishing community. I invite the Information Research folks to contact me if they have questions about how Open Access works from a legal perspective so that we can counter any unwarranted fears about how to make the sharing involved easy and legal - we're here to help.
From the post:
If the author retains copyright, as Information Research authors do, it is…
jwilbanks | April 1, 2009Big FriendFeed chatter on the interwebs yesterday about JoVE "moving" to a closed access model.
This is being covered extensively on the FF conversation so I won't dredge through the points there - if you want to see the arguing and JoVE responses, head over there.
What's interesting for me is the lack of conversation about the importance of licensing. There is a reason Open Access talks about copyrights in the definitions. Let's go back and remember:
By "open access" to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy,…