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CC and Cambridge UP
4July 11, 2019 by joshbolick
One of my ongoing research interests involves publisher sharing policies, which stipulate if, how, when, where, and in-what-version authors of …
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On the Loss of an Advocate, Dr. James Sterbenz
Leave a commentMarch 4, 2019 by joshbolick
We are saddened to learn of the passing last Monday of our friend and colleague, Professor James Sterbenz, who has …
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What’s the IR doing in our Taylor & Francis Content License?
1January 3, 2019 by joshbolick
UPDATE 3/1/3019: T&F accepted our striking this entire section from our content agreement. So can you, at least in principle. …
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New Hack of the Scholarly Publication System: Danger to Google Scholar
5December 21, 2018 by mzelenec
By Town Peterson and Jorge Soberon, University of Kansas Google Scholar (GS) has emerged as one of principal portals into …
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Are Big Deal Cancellations a BFD?
Leave a commentDecember 18, 2018 by joshbolick
UPDATE 3/1/19: from the University Daily Kansan, “KU Libraries negotiate deal with scholarly journal publishers to mitigate cuts” The University …
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The dark side of open access
1November 30, 2018 by Town Peterson
Guest post by Daniel Romero-Alvarez http://www.romerostories.com @vakdaro Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity Institute University of Kansas, Lawrence, …
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In Solidarity with UC System Librarians
2September 11, 2018 by joshbolick
Yesterday my colleagues in the University of Kansas Libraries’ Library Faculty Assembly (3 of the authors of this blog are …
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To the Editors, Diversity and Distributions, and Wiley Publishers:
5September 4, 2018 by Town Peterson
4 September 2018 To the Editors, Diversity and Distributions, and Wiley Publishers: We write to you as a large group …
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Of Elsevier and Embargoes 2.0
2August 28, 2018 by joshbolick
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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Should I Publish in Parasitic Open Access Journals?
4February 15, 2018 by Town Peterson
In academia, we are all under intense pressure to publish our work, and this pressure is increasingly quantified in terms …
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