I would like to share another problem with the locked-in subscription journal system: A major challenge for improving the quality of teaching in elementary and secondary schools is the disconnect...
danah, If open-access is a desirable goal why are so buttoned down on the copyright for this blog?
I must say as the outgoing editor of a AAA journal publsihed by Wiley Blackwell that, for the most part, the real editors are the academics who assemble the journal and send it on, usually copy-e...
Microsoft Research strongly encourages all of its researchers to publish in open-access journals and to post their research publicly. I'm not sure why you think that Microsoft would be against op...
I'm surprised to see praise of publishing in open-source journals from someone funded by Microsoft, definitely not an open-source code endorsing corporation. Is this not a discrepancy? Just wonde...
I very much enjoyed this piece, Danah. I was interested to see that a group of Cambridge academics have started their own non-profit publishing company, Open Book Publishers, that aims not only t...
recent discussion on open access publishing is going on at Danah Boyd’s post and an overview of open access is provided by Peter Suber in his Six things that researchers need
Yes, do publish in established non-profit open access journals such as JMIR and avoid to publish in subscription-based journals, but also c...
Hey all, One love. I'd also like to say that past boycotts of non-OA journals were entirely successful. Just look at how many open access journals we have today? I think a more constructive quest...
Self-archiving is an incredibly poor and limited answer coming from a name like Harnads! Who will maintain the self-archived versions? How do we maintain consistant links over time? Is it really ...