Overview / Current Activity
Benkler,Yochai (2002). Coase's penguin, or linux and the nature
of the firm. [Electronic version]. The Yale Law Review. Retrieved
October 4, 2004, from:
http://www.benkler.org/CoasesPenguin.html
Analyzes the emergence of commons-based peer-production in software
development, scientific research, and other cultural practices.
Boyle, James (ed) (2001). Conference on the Public Domain (November
9-11, 2001). Complete Webcast Archive; Selected Papers. Retrieved
October 5, 2004, from:
http://www.law.duke.edu/pd/realcast.htm
http://law.duke.edu/journals/lcp/indexpd.htm
Delio, Michelle (2003,
December 16). Copyright doesn't
cover this site. Wired News.
Retrieved October 4, 2004,
from:
http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,61585,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1
A profile of the University of Maine's efforts to
build an online environment for sharing art, code, and text.
Lessig, Lawrence (2004). Free Culture: How Big Media Uses
Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity. [Electronic
versions]. Retrieved October 4, 2004, from:
http://free-culture.org/freecontent/
Kranich, Nancy (2004). The Information Commons:
A Public Policy Report. The Free Expression Policy Project, Brennan
Center for Justice at NYU School of Law.
http://www.fepproject.org/policyreports/InformationCommons.pdf
Reshaping Scholarly Communication. Office of Scholarly Communication,
University of California. Retrieved October 4, 2004, from:
http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/
SPARC Open Access Newsletter and Free Online Scholarship
(FOS) Newsletter Archive.
Retrieved October 4, 2004, from:
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/archive.htm
Suber, Peter (2004). Creating an Intellectual Commons through
Open Access. Retrieved October 4, 2004, from:
http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/archive/00001246/01/suberrev052804.pdf
Suber, Peter. Open Access News; News from the Open Access
Movement. Retrieved October 4, 2004, from:
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html
Suber, Peter. (2004, September (last revised)). Open Access
Overview; Focusing on open access to peer-reviewed research articles
and their preprints. Retrieved October 4, 2004, from:
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm
Web focus: Access to the Literature: the debate continues. Nature,
August 2003-September 2004.
Retrieved October 4, 2004, from:
http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate
Specially commissioned insights and analysis from leading scientists,
librarians, publishers and other stakeholders on the future of
access to the scientific literature.
Open Access Initiatives
Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) (2003). Principles
and Strategies for the Reform of Scholarly Communication, August
28, 2003. Retrieved October 4, 2004, from:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?E2CB21279
Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences
and Humanities, October 22, 2003. Retrieved October 4, 2004,
from:
http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlin_declaration.pdf
Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing, June 20, 2003.
Retrieved October 4, 2004, from:
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/bethesda.htm
Budapest Open Access Initiative, February 14, 2002. Retrieved
October4, 2004, from:
http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml
The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
(IFLA). (2004). Statement on Open Access to Scholarly Literature
and Research Documentation, February 24, 2004. Retrieved October
4, 2004, from:
http://www.ifla.org/V/cdoc/open-access04.html
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
(2004). Declaration on Access to Research Data From Public Funding,
January 30, 2004. Retrieved October 4, 2004, from:
http://www.oecd.org/document/15/0,2340,en_21571361_21590465_25998799_1_1_1_1,00.html
UN World Summit on the Information Society Declaration of Principles
and Plan of Action, December 12, 2003. Retrieved October 4, 2004,
from:
http://www.itu.int/dms_pub/itu-s/md/03/wsis/doc/S03-WSIS-DOC-0004!!MSW-E.doc
http://www.itu.int/dms_pub/itu-s/md/03/wsis/doc/S03-WSIS-DOC-0005!!MSW-E.doc
Wellcome Trust position Statement in Support of Open Access
Publishing, October, 1, 2003.
Retrieved October 4, 2004, from:
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/doc%5Fwtd002766.html
Alternative Publishing Options and Experiments
arXiv
e-Print Archive. Cornnell University Library. Retrieved October
4, 2004 from:
http://arxiv.org
Active archive for pre-prints, mainly in physics, mathematics
and computer science.
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic
Resources Coalition (SPARC). Retrieved October 4, 2004, from:
http://www.arl.org/sparc/index.html?page=a0
Alternative publishing option to create journals that will compete
with specific, highly priced journals.
BioMed Central. Retrieved October
4, 2004, from:
http://www.biomedcentral.com/
A very innovative commercial service that makes refereed journals
freely accessible to the world.
Public Library of Science.
http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/
An agreement by scholars not to publish in journals that do
not make their articles freely accessible within six months of
publication.
Selected Publications on Scholarly Communications
Crow, Raym (2002). The Case for Institutional Repositories.
Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition. Retrieved
October 4, 2004 from:
http://www.arl.org/sparc/IR/ir.html
Guédon, Jean-Claude (2001, October). Beyond Core Journals
and Licenses: The Paths to Reform Scientific Publishing. ARL
Bimonthly Report 218. Retrieved October 4, 2004, from:
http://www.arl.org/newsltr/218/guedon.html
Guédon, Jean-Claude (2001). In Oldenburg’s Long
Shadow: Librarians, Research Scientists, Publishers, and the
Control of Scientific Publishing. [Electronic version]. Retrieved
October 4, 2004, from:
http://www.arl.org/arl/proceedings/138/guedon.html
McCabe, Mark (1999, December). The Impact of Publisher Mergers
on Journal Prices: An Update. ARL Bimonthly Report 207. Retrieved
October 4, 2004, from:
http://www.arl.org/newsltr/207/jrnlprices.html
Creative Commons
Creative Commons Licenses. Retrieved October 4, 2004, from:
http://creativecommons.org/
Committee on Licensing Geographic Data and Services. Board on
Earth Sciences and Resources (2004). Licensing Strategies and
Decisions. (pp 177-204). National Research Council of National
Academies Press. Retrieved October 4, 2004, from:
http://www.nap.edu/books/0309092671/html/
Creativity and Open Culture
Distributed Creativity: Copyleft, Right, and Center. Retrieved
October 4, 2004, from: http://cordova.asap.um.maine.edu/~wagora/w-agora/index.php?bn=distributedcreativity_eyelaw
An online forum produced by Eyebeam and UMaine on legal innovations
for stimulating distributed creativity.
Ippolito, Jon. [n.d.]. Why Art Should
Be Free. Retrieved October 4, 2004, from: http://three.org/ippolito/writing/wri_online_why.html
[A
polemic on why property-based art models hurt artists.]
Open Art Network. Retrieved October 4, 2004.
http://three.org/openart
A consortium that aims to empower artists working in digital
formats by devising and promoting open standards for networked
art.
Scientific and Technical Data
National Research Council (2004). Open Access and the Public
Domain in Digital Data and Information for Science: Proceedings
of an International Conference. Retrieved October 5, 2004 from:
http://www.nap.edu/books/0309091454/html/
National Research Council (2003). The Role of Scientific and
Technical Data and Information in the Public Domain: Proceedings
of a Symposium. Retrieved October 5, 2004, from:
http://www.nap.edu/books/030908850X/html/
Onsrud, Harlan, Camara,G.,
Campbell, J. ,Chakravarthy, N.S. [2004,
July 5]. Public Commons of Geographic Data: Research and Development
Challenges. [Preprint of chapter in a forthcoming book]. Retrieved
October 4, 2004, from: http://www.spatial.maine.edu/geodatacommons/PubCommonsSNGL.pdf
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