Open Access

Peter Suber

Summary: A good overview of the issue with publishing science

Score: 55 / 100

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• Your Highlight on Location 840-840 | Added on Wednesday, March 16, 2016 11:22:55 PM “all rights reserved” means that without special permission users may do nothing that exceeds fair use.

• Your Highlight on Location 912-921 | Added on Wednesday, March 16, 2016 11:34:42 PM good scholarly reasons to exceed fair use. For example: • to quote long excerpts • to distribute full-text copies to students or colleagues • to burn copies on CDs for bandwidth-poor parts of the world • to distribute semantically-tagged or otherwise enhanced (i.e., modified) versions • to migrate texts to new formats or media to keep them readable as technologies change • to create and archive copies for long-term preservation • to include works in a database or mashup • to make an audio recording of a text • to translate a text into another language • to copy a text for indexing, text-mining, or other kinds of processing

• Your Highlight on Location 1250-1251 | Added on Saturday, March 19, 2016 11:42:31 AM There is growing evidence that for some kinds of books, full-text OA editions boost the net sales of the priced, printed editions. OA may increase royalties rather than decrease them.

• Your Highlight on Location 1304-1304 | Added on Sunday, March 20, 2016 2:12:05 PM late Jim Gray used to say, “May all your problems be technical.”

• Your Highlight on Location 1313-1315 | Added on Sunday, March 20, 2016 2:13:48 PM Among other things, research includes knowledge and knowledge claims or proposals, hypotheses and conjectures, arguments and analysis, evidence and data, algorithms and methods, evaluation and interpretation, debate and discussion, criticism and dissent, summary and review. OA

• Your Highlight on Location 1415-1416 | Added on Sunday, March 20, 2016 2:47:11 PM Clay Shirky’s concise formulation, the real problem is not information overload but filter failure.24

• Your Highlight on Location 1461-1461 | Added on Sunday, March 20, 2016 2:58:42 PM would never want to see publishers lose it.)

• Your Highlight on Location 1546-1547 | Added on Sunday, March 20, 2016 3:12:27 PM we’re far from exhausting our cleverness and imagination.6

• Your Highlight on Location 1847-1848 | Added on Sunday, March 20, 2016 8:58:12 PM Scholars who expect to find the very best literature online, harmlessly cohabiting with crap, are inexorably replacing scholars who, despite themselves perhaps, still associate everything online with crap.

• Your Highlight on Location 1889-1890 | Added on Sunday, March 20, 2016 9:06:26 PM Nobody is surprised when cultural inertia slows the adoption of radical ideas.

• Your Highlight on Location 1945-1945 | Added on Sunday, March 20, 2016 9:19:01 PM OpenDepot, OpenAire, Academia, and Mendeley.