Showing posts with label open access. Show all posts
Showing posts with label open access. Show all posts
15 February 2023

Incoming: Spare Slots for Freelance Work in 2023

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I will soon have spare slots in my freelance writing schedule for regular weekly or monthly work, and major projects. Here are the main area...
08 January 2018

Incoming: Spare Slots for Freelance Work in 2018

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I will soon have spare slots in my freelance writing schedule for regular weekly or monthly work, and major projects. Here are the ma...
04 January 2017

Spare Slots for Regular Freelance Work Soon Available

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I may soon have spare slots in my freelance writing schedule for regular work, or for larger, longer-term projects. Here are the ma...
26 July 2014

Microsoft Goes Open Access; When Will It Go Open Source?

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Even though Microsoft is no longer the dominant player or pacesetter in the computer industry -- those roles are shared by Google and Ap...
25 July 2014

Open Access: Looking Back, Looking Forwards

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A couple of weeks ago, I spoke at a conference celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Berlin declaration on open access. More formall...

CERN Announces Nearly All High-Energy Physics Articles Will Switch To Open Access -- The Largest-Ever OA Initiative

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One of the key insights driving open access is that if all the money currently paid by libraries and other institutions for subscription...
24 November 2013

Fighting To Free Knowledge Paid For By Taxpayers -- And Winning

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One of the pioneers of open access is Michael Eisen, who helped found what has become the leading open access publisher , Public Library ...
27 October 2013

European Commission Report Says Open Access At 'Tipping Point'

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Techdirt has been reporting for some time on the growing number of moves towards making academic work freely available to the public -- f...

University Of California Gives Big Boost To Open Access, Still Confused About Sharing Knowledge

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Techdirt has been monitoring for a while the inexorable rise of open access in the academic world. But even against a background of major...
26 October 2013

EU Copyright: The Right to Read and the Right to Mine

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A year ago the European Parliament rejected ACTA - a real milestone in the fight to bring some balance to copyright, since it was the fi...
19 September 2013

Innovators, Public Interest Groups & Open Access Supporters Pull Out Of Talks On EU Copyright In Protest

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Back in February we reported on a worrying attempt by the European Commission to reframe the discussion about modernizing copyright in...
31 March 2013

Publishers Have A New Strategy For Neutralizing Open Access -- And It's Working

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Over the last few years, Techdirt has been reporting on a steady stream of victories for open access. Along the way publishers have tri...
10 February 2013

Re-inventing Academic Publishing: 'Diamond' Open Access Titles That Are Free To Read And Free To Publish

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As Techdirt has been reporting, the idea of providing open access to publicly-funded research is steadily gaining ground. One of the key...

Fighting for Open Access

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As you may have noticed, this weekend the online world has been filled with news of and responses to the suicide of the young American a...
08 December 2012

Horizon 2020: Defending Open Access and Open Data

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At the end of last year, I wrote about the important Horizon 2020 initiative. Here's how it describes itself : On Open Enterprise blo...
13 October 2012

Lacking Fair Use Rights, Argentina Tries To Increase Access To Copyright Works, With Mixed Results

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If you think copyright is bad in regions like the US or Europe, this post from Intellectual Property Watch points out that things could be...
29 September 2012

'Setting The Default To Open': The Next Ten Years Of Open Access

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As Techdirt has reported , open access (OA) is scoring more and more major wins currently. But the battle to gain free access to academi...
23 July 2012

Open Access: Not All That is Gold Glisters

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I've written elsewhere about how open access - the idea that academic research paid for by the public should be freely available onl...

EU Proposes To Provide Open Access To The Results Of Research It Funds

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Yesterday, Techdirt reported on the UK government's plans to make publicly-funded scientific research freely available as open acces...
15 July 2012

The Warehousing And Delivery Of Digital Goods? Nearly Free, Pretty Easy, Mostly Trivial

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One of the most important moments in the rise of a radical idea is when the fightback begins, because it signals an acceptance by the est...