Essay by Melanie Dulong de Rosnay, a response to The Opening of Science and Scholarship by Peter Suber Some researchers can’t use their own scholarship anymore because, in order to be published, they assigned all their rights without being aware of the implications of the exclusive terms of their initial agreements with their publishers. They […]
Essay by Jean-Claude Guedon, a response to The Opening of Science and Scholarship by Peter Suber There is much to be liked in Peter Suber’s piece, but one of the most important facets of his argument certainly lies in his beginning: “Who controls access..?” Indeed, the issue of control is closely related to access. Placing […]
Essay by Melissa Hagemann, a response to The Opening of Science and Scholarship by Peter Suber. Who controls access to educational materials in the age of the internet? Today many students are priced out of an education, not because of the cost of tuition, but because of the price of textbooks. Lessons from the open […]
Essay by John Willinsky, a response to The Opening of Science and Scholarship, by Peter Suber Some forty years ago, Marshall McLuhan spoke in his now predictably prescient manner of an “age of instant information,” while others at the time held high-speed computing responsible for an “information revolution.” And while it is tempting to say […]
essay by Peter Suber, responses by John Willinsky, Melissa Hagemann and Melanie Dulong de Rosnay. Who controls access to peer-reviewed research in the age of the internet? How are the relevant norms and interests evolving? Some key variables are unchanged from the age of print. Scholarly journals usually don’t pay their authors, referees, or editors. […]
