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On “Thoughts on Prestige, Quality, and Open Access,” by Peter Suber

April 15, 2018 Alyssa Comments 0 Comment

Peter Suber unpacks the relationship between prestige and journal publishing in “Thoughts on Prestige, Quality, and Open Access.” He argues that, despite suggestions to the contrary, the institutional emphasis on prestige in the academy does not have to be a barrier to open access (OA), which many feel is not as prestigious as toll access (TA) publishing. Prestige is not an obstacle to green OA, as authors may have the option to deposit pre- or post-prints of their TA articles…

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On “Creating an Intellectual Commons through Open Access,” by Peter Suber

March 2, 2018 Alyssa Comments 0 Comment

Peter Suber is a well-known open access advocate as well as the Director of the Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication in the Harvard Library. In “Creating an Intellectual Commons through Open Access” Suber takes a measured approach at detailing the OA landscape, and of likening it to a commons. Suber details the difference between royalty-free and royalty-producing content, and suggests some options for convincing those who make royalties off of their academic work to consider switching to an open access…

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On “Open Access and the Humanities: Contexts, Controversies, and the Future,” by Martin Paul Eve

July 27, 2017 Alyssa Comments 0 Comment

In this thorough volume, Open Access and the Humanities: Contexts, Controversies, and the Future, Martin Paul Eve introduces readers to open access as a concept and practice. Where Eve’s study differs from other major open access books, like Peter Suber’s Open Access, is in his specific focus on the humanities. Open access is often discussed in relation to the sciences only. This is for a few reasons, including that the earliest, largest-scale open access publishing movement started in physics; open…

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On Open Access, by Peter Suber

October 9, 2016 Alyssa Comments 0 Comment

In Open Access, Peter Suber offers a general overview of what open access (OA) to research is. He is rather upfront about his mission: Suber wrote a book that is “… a succinct introduction to the basics, long enough to cover the major topics in reasonable detail and short enough for busy people to read” (ix). He does not go into the significant history of scholarly communication, like John Willinsky might, or the legal precedents for digital rights management, like…

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