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Yesterday my colleagues in the University of Kansas Libraries’ Library Faculty Assembly (3 of the authors of this blog are …
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4 September 2018 To the Editors, Diversity and Distributions, and Wiley Publishers: We write to you as a large group …
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Last year I presented a poster at the Kraemer Copyright Conference in Colorado Springs, titled “Exploiting Elsevier’s Creative Commons Licensing …
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In academia, we are all under intense pressure to publish our work, and this pressure is increasingly quantified in terms …
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A recent commentary in the Chronicle of Higher Education offered interesting reflections on the state of “open access” as a movement …
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Much thinking remains on how Open Access (OA) is best achieved in a globally coordinated and equitable manner. Will it be built on shared copies of some version of the work via an open repository (“green” OA) and/or on journals with contents that are entirely open (“gold” OA)? To what extent do these contrasting models complement each other (Guédon, 2017, p.8)? Other questions include how to fund such a system both globally and equitably, how to empower current and primary stakeholders in shaping an open future, how to transition from the currently dominant subscription model to a fully open model, and how roles of current stakeholders may change in the process.

We are pleased to introduce as a guest blogger, Matthew N. Stein, MD, who responds from a physician’s perspective to …
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