BOSTON UNIVERSITY ENDORSES INSTITUTION-WIDE, OPEN-ACCESS RESEARCH ARCHIVE
Boston University: BOSTON UNIVERSITY ENDORSES INSTITUTION-WIDE, OPEN-ACCESS RESEARCH ARCHIVE Trend-setting policy allows voluntary online dissemination of scholarly work (Boston) – Research by Boston...
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The Chronicle News Blog: MIT Professors Approve Campuswide Policy to Publish Scholarly Articles Free Online The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is known for its ambitious effort to give away its...
View ArticleOpen Access: Promises and Challenges of Scholarship in the Digital Age
Academic Matters: Open Access: Promises and Challenges of Scholarship in the Digital Age Open Access: Promises and Challenges of Scholarship in the Digital Age_pic The Internet has made Open Access...
View ArticleSplit Over Open Access
Inside Higher Ed: Split Over Open Access In the debate over “open access” to scholarly research, the Association of American University Presses has weighed in on the “anti” side of things, backing...
View ArticleNew home, new outlook, new publishing system for Workplace: A Journal for...
Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor The Editorial Team of Workplace is proud to announce the journal’s new home, new outlook, and new publishing system! We encourage you to browse the Workplace...
View ArticleKU becomes first U.S. public university to pass an open access policy
KU becomes first U.S. public university to pass an open access policy LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas has become the nation’s first public university to adopt an “open access” policy that makes its...
View ArticleThe Next Open Source Movement
Inside Higher Ed: The Next Open Source Movement While the open source movement has taken off in course management systems, with Moodle and Sakai as alternatives to the dominant Blackboard, the...
View ArticleJury Orders Boston U. Graduate Student to Pay $675,000 for Illegal Downloads
The Chronicle: Jury Orders Boston U. Graduate Student to Pay $675,000 for Illegal Downloads A federal jury on Friday ordered a Boston University graduate student to pay four music companies $675,000,...
View ArticleBreakthrough on Open Access
Inside Higher Ed: Breakthrough on Open Access For years, as more academics have embraced “open access” publishing — in which journals are published online and free — a constant refrain from many...
View ArticleOpen Letter on Open Access
Inside Higher Ed: Open Letter on Open Access The presidents of 57 liberal arts colleges released an open letter on Tuesday endorsing the Federal Research Access Act of 2009, a bill aimed at increasing...
View ArticleA Call for Copyright Rebellion
From Inside Higher Ed: A Call for Copyright Rebellion DENVER — The manner in which copyright law is being applied to academe in the digital age is destructive to the advancement of human knowledge and...
View ArticleOberlin Adopts Open Access for Faculty Research
Inside Higher Ed: Oberlin Adopts Open Access for Faculty Research Faculty members at Oberlin College voted last week to create an online and free archive to which they will add all work they publish in...
View ArticleJudge won’t stop student from promoting illegal downloading
The Boston Globe: Judge won’t stop student from promoting illegal downloading Four record labels that were awarded a total of $675,000 in damages after a Boston University graduate student illegally...
View ArticleOttawa Is First Canadian University in Open Access Group
Inside Higher Ed: Ottawa Is First Canadian University in Open Access Group The University of Ottawa has become the first Canadian institution to join the Compact for Open Access Publishing Equity, in...
View ArticleOpen Access Encyclopedias
Inside Higher Ed: Open Access Encyclopedias Can an information source that is free also be reliable? Or does the price of content always reflect its value? In higher education, this debate usually...
View ArticleU. of Oxford Bans Legal File-Sharing Service
The Chronicle: U. of Oxford Bans Legal File-Sharing Service Universities have been known to forbid illegal file sharing on their campuses, but the University of Oxford has decided to ban a...
View ArticleUniversity worker accused of extorting student file sharers
RockRap.com: University worker accused of extorting student file sharers by Greg Sandoval CNet News If you thought the Recording Industry Association of America was hard on illegal file sharing,...
View ArticleNew Journals, Free Online, Let Scholars Speak Out
The Chronicle: New Journals, Free Online, Let Scholars Speak Out He seems genial, but John Willinsky is a dangerous man. As a leader in the development and spread of “open access” scholarly journals,...
View ArticleIn Court, a University and Publishers Spar Over ‘Fair Use’ of Course Materials
The Chronicle: In Court, a University and Publishers Spar Over ‘Fair Use’ of Course Materials Maybe you’re a professor who wants to use a chunk of copyrighted material in your course this spring. Or...
View ArticleWorkplace #1 Inaugural Issue Republished!
The Institute for Critical Education Studies (ICES) has embarked on the daunting, yet enjoyable, task of reissuing all back issues of Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor in OJS format. We begin...
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