Entries from ©ollectanea tagged with 'open access'
Time to say goodbye, good luck, and happy trails to you!
I have so enjoyed my two years as the Center for Intellectual Property's Virtual Scholar, and my 20 months as your host here at Collectanea. Over these two years, I've kept an eye on and chatted about copyright matters, heard...
Doctorow's CC licensed book, Little Brother, now at 4 weeks on NYT Bestseller List
Speaking of the future, here's a glimpse: Doctorow: First CC-Licensed Work on NYT Best Sellers List/New Graphic Novel - Creative Commons. Hooray for Cory Doctorow, showing the world (again) that free digital can sell (lots of) paper. Mmm. Smell that...
Suing Georgia
I have taken nearly a week to mull over this case that has been buzzing around the blogosphere, around email and even in real life, and I'm glad I did. I think I see it more clearly now than I...
NIH Open Access Mandate necessitates institutional initiatives regarding reservation of rights
The ARL has published a very helpful report for universities and colleges that receive NIH funding regarding their options for facilitating their authors' compliance with the requirements of the new NIH Open Access Mandate: Complying with the NIH Public Access...
Lessig's entire repertoire is now freely available under CC licenses
Larry Lessig announced today that the fourth of his books, The Future of Ideas (actually, the second book in order of publishing) has joined the other three in being licensed for free access under a Creative Commons license: The Future...
OA knols from Google
Peter Suber has a very interesting write-up on a new Google initiative, OA knols from Google. For a more thorough explanation visit Google's blog where the subject is set out in more detail. What I found interesting about Suber's commentary...
Content owners finding their new niches in a networked world
I read a press release on the Liblicense listserve this morning from Wiley-Blackwell announcing a new series of journals: "Wiley-Blackwell Launches Review Journals in Social Sciences and Humanities -- Cutting-edge functionality added to Compass journals," the title read. I went...
Chromograms and recontracting -- connected in copyright
Just noticed an interesting entry at the Institute for the Future of the Book (if:book), if:book: chromograms: visualizing an individual's editing history in wikipedia that connected up for me with an article I had read earlier at Peter Brantely's blog,...
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