Comments on: “Don’t ask, don’t tell” rights retention for scholarly articles

By: Psychic Guy

Psychic Guy — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:50:51 +0000

If publishers aren’t protecting their rights, big whoop! For years publishers have generated huge profits at the expense of authors. It’s nice to see the tables turning, thanks to the internet.

By: Transitions » Blog Archive » “Don’t ask, don’t tell” Rights Retention for Scholarly Articles - The University of Iowa Libraries

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:31:21 +0000

[...] and director of the university’s Office for Scholarly Communications, has an interesting blog post about authors posting articles on the web with a “don’t ask, don’t tell” [...]

By: Stevan Harnad

Stevan Harnad — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:52:09 +0000

DON’T ASK DON’T TELL (DADT) SINCE 1991

If physicists had not been instinctively practicing DADT since 1991 http://bit.ly/Q1O1s:

(1) they would have had a half-million fewer OA papers (and resulting research impact and progress) to show for it between then and 2009,

(2) the world’s first Green publisher, officially endorsing immediate OA self-archiving would not have been the American Physical Society http://bit.ly/Q1O1s (now the majority are Green http://romeo.eprints.org/stats.php).

(3) the IQ difference between physics and other disciplines would not be as large as it has again confirmed itself to be, ‘lo these 18 years — though by this metric, computer scientists, Stu’s own discipline, are even smarter, having been the first ones on the planet to start practicing DADT “Green OA” (in the form of anonymous FTP self-archiving in their own institutional ftp archives) since the 1980’s, to the tune of 1.3 million DADT papers in computer science to date http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/…

By: » As library budgets collapse, authors need to take responsibility for access The Occasional Pamphlet

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:05:21 +0000

[...] Retain distribution rights for your articles by choosing a journal that provides for this or amending your copyright agreement with the journal (but don’t fall into the “don’t ask, don’t tell” trap). [...]

By: Journal Publication and Subscription Fees « Aran at Grad School

Journal Publication and Subscription Fees « Aran at Grad School — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:34:08 +0000

[...] Journal Publication and Subscription Fees July 4, 2009 Greg shares http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2009/06/18/dont-ask-dont-tell-rights-retention-for-scholarly-a…. [...]

By: Self-archiving after publication « Jurn blog

Self-archiving after publication « Jurn blog — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:00:10 +0000

[...] July 2009 in Uncategorized The Occasional Pamphlet (a law blog at Harvard) has a long and detailed posting on the issues around the public self-archiving of academic articles, after publication in an [...]

By: Jack Merlot

Jack Merlot — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:32:22 +0000

“on scholarly communication”

It would seem a bit more scholarly if your font selection was friendlier to people with visual disabilities.

(The default font size on your site is illegible in my browser; I had to magnify it 6x before I could read it.)

Just sayin’.

By: Researchers typically forbidden from sharing own work :: in propria persona

Researchers typically forbidden from sharing own work :: in propria persona — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:01:31 +0000

[...] to a long, but fascinating blog post, by Stuart Shieber, a CS professor at Harvard, discussing the somewhat ridiculous copyright situation that many academics deal with in trying to promote their own works. I’ve heard similar stories from other professors I [...]

By: Scholarly journals are not so open. | Midas Oracle .ORG

Scholarly journals are not so open. | Midas Oracle .ORG — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:57:52 +0000

[...] Scholarly journals are not so open. Written by Chris F. Masse on July 1, 2009 — Leave a Comment Academic Papers + Open Access + Scholarly Journals = a crazzzzzy mix [...]

By: wdjoyner

wdjoyner — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:44:06 +0000

Great post, but since Harvard requires (I think) open access, possibly not such an important issue for you (depending on your tenure situation and the P+T committee rules). However, at many other academic institutions, this is a very important issue. Thanks again! (I looked at your paper – clever argument:-)