Essay by Melanie Dulong de Rosnay, a response to The Opening of Science and Scholarship by Peter Suber
Some researchers can’t use their own scholarship anymore because, in order to be published, they assigned all their rights without being aware of the implications of the exclusive terms of their initial agreements with their publishers. They can’t [...]
Essay by Jean-Claude Guedon, a response to The Opening of Science and Scholarship by Peter Suber
There is much to be liked in Peter Suber’s piece, but one of the most important facets of his argument certainly lies in his beginning: “Who controls access..?” Indeed, the issue of control is closely related to access. Placing it [...]
Essay by Melissa Hagemann, a response to The Opening of Science and Scholarship by Peter Suber.
Who controls access to educational materials in the age of the internet? Today many students are priced out of an education, not because of the cost of tuition, but because of the price of textbooks.
Lessons from the open [...]
Essay by John Willinsky, a response to The Opening of Science and Scholarship, by Peter Suber
Some forty years ago, Marshall McLuhan spoke in his now predictably prescient manner of an “age of instant information,” while others at the time held high-speed computing responsible for an “information revolution.” And while it is tempting to say that [...]
