Formerly the domain of the author(s), the publisher, and the government, in the U.S., as in many former British colonies, copyright is NOT an inalienable (“god-given”) right: it is granted by the U.S. Constitution as a right to be defined by Congress (U.S. Constitution. Article I Section 8. Clause 8 – Patent and Copyright Clause…
FREE Open Access Course on Scholarly Publishing
Navigate the Sea of Scholarly Communications Using wikispaces online technology, a team of experts from The Australian National University present a five-module online, free course for novice scholars to understand scholarly communications. Topics covered include finding a best-fit publisher, predatory publishing, data citations, bibliometrics, open access, and online research identity. See http://scholarlycommunicationseas.wikispaces.com/home Contact: Roxanne Missingham,…
Topic Primer: Predatory Publishing
On January 17, 2017, Jeffrey Beall withdrew his blog, “Scholarly Open Access: Critical Analysis of Open Access Publishing” from the Internet, reportedly because of “threats and politics”. Professor Beall, an academic librarian at Auraria Library, University of Colorado Denver (Jeffrey Beall, Scholarly Communications Librarian, 303-556-5936, Jeffrey.beall@ucdenver.edu) began compiling the list in 2009. In a recent…
Introducing the Authors & Editors Blog
Authors, editors, and publishers have been struggling with a number of major issues surrounding access to scholarly research and its dissemination. The issues are interrelated and complex, and they’ve evolved during the transition from analog to digital publishing. Each participant– formerly had a well-defined “domain” in the process. Things started to change rapidly about 2003…