The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics

The dramatic growth of open access continues! Many areas of open access, particularly OA journals and repositories, appear to be showing a ...

There are many curious ironies about the open access movement, and indeed the shift from print to electronic in general. Not least of these ...

Public Library of Science co-founder Michael Eisen has a new open access blog, the Open Science Blog . The first article, Fight Intelligent...

Just self-archived: my presentation at the CERN Workshop on Scholarly Innovations (OAI4) on the open access policy issues breakout session....

Talk in open access circles of late has centred around the true costs of setting up and maintaining an institutional repository. The only a...

Michael Geist, Make Internet an Election Issue Toronto Star, Dec. 12, 2005. Michael Geist calls on Canadians to take advantage of the parti...

Lord Martin Rees, President of the Royal Society, has publicly released his December 7 response to the open letter written by nearly 50 Fell...

The open access citation advantage has been amply demonstrated in many studies, which can be found through Steve Hitchcock's excellent b...

One of the arguments in the open access movement advanced by publishers is that they have every right to expect to be paid for their valuabl...

Librarians and academics in recent years have been working together to help students to develop information literacy skills, that is, the ki...

Concordia University Open Access mandate New Open Access Fund at SFU Library PubMedCentral Canada up and available for searching University ...

The human genome sequence is freely downloadable from Genbank and the European Bioinformatics Institute - thanks to the efforts of early o...

Recently, the Royal Society issued a Position Statement on 'Open Access' , one of the few negative submissions to the RCUK consulati...

My latest article, Freedom Under Attack: A Song, a Healing Process, and Intellectual Property Law , has just been published in Politics Wit...

OA Librarian is a blog with two purposes. The blog is designed to gather together major search sources for freely available information in ...

Canada's telecommunications policy is under review - and it should come as no surprise that big industry players have dominated the proc...

Funding agencies and other groups are beginning to make commitments to providing monies for publishing fees. In addition to providing dire...

Re: Response to Consultation on Open Access (An Open Letter) Congratulations to SSHRC on adopting open access in principle. Here is my res...

Here is a thought for the SSHRC Consultation on Open Access : why wait until publication for open access? Indeed - why wait until the rese...

A delightful irony of open access: the poor, it seems, can afford, what the rich cannot. The Latin American countries have long been leaders...