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Author rights and the Harvard open access policies: a response to Patrick Alexander
In his opinion piece criticizing the open access (OA) policies at Harvard University, Patrick Alexander makes several factual errors about the policies themselves and Harvard's experience under them. In response, I discuss several relevant facts about Harvard OA policies, among them that the policies were adopted by faculty votes, not imposed by administrators; that under the policies, faculty only grant Harvard nonexclusive rights to new faculty articles, not exclusive rights or full copyright; that the policy-created Harvard OA license is merely a default that authors can easily waive for any given article; that the policies do not hinder Harvard faculty in publishing and do not limit their freedom to publish in the venues of their choice; and that the policies give Harvard faculty more rights, not fewer rights, over their own work than they typically get from their publishing contracts.
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Ensuring open access for publicly funded research
The right way to mix green and gold approaches
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The Case of the Speluncean Explorers
The Case of Speluncean Explorers: Nine New Opinions includes a reprint of Lon Fuller's classic article and a much-needed revision of and addition to the five opening s originally expressed in the case by five Supreme Court Judges.
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Open Access and Quality
The paper examines the subtle and indirect ways in which open access (OA) might affect the quality of articles and the journals in which they appear. The author examines some publisher arguments that OA will reduce quality, and finds them confused, groundless, and self-serving. He then offers several arguments that open access will actually tend to improve quality.
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Open Access to Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The paper argues for mandating open access (OA) to electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). ETDs are the most invisible form of useful literature and the most useful form of invisible literature. ETDs should be considered low-hanging fruit for the OA movement, along with journal articles. Their authors are not paid to write them, and can consent to OA without losing revenue. Fears that OA for ETDs will prevent future publication are understandable but groundless. There are easy work-arounds for ETDs describing patentable discoveries or containing chapters for which copyright has already been transferred to publishers. An OA requirement will even elicit better work.
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“Author pays” publishing model: Answering to some objections
[...]the editorial advocated that funding agencies treat the cost of publishing an article as part of the cost of research.
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