Tag Archives for open access
How I Published My Scholarly Book With an Open Access CC-BY License
[Open Access Week in 2014 is October 20-26.] Have you noticed that scholarly books are getting more and more expensive? It’s not just the journals that are exorbitantly priced. Yesterday I didn’t buy a really interesting anthology in my field … Continue reading
#PDFtribute, Aaron Swartz, and the need to fight for open access in academic publishing
Three days ago, internet activist Aaron Swartz killed himself, as has been reported widely across social and traditional media. He killed himself on the second anniversary of being arrested for having downloaded thousands of academic articles from JSTOR via a … Continue reading