Just posted on The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics Highlights There are over 7,000 peer-reviewed fully open access journals as listed in the DOAJ, still growing by 4 titles per day and over 6,000 of these are in English, as listed by Open J-Gate. Electronic Journals Library keeps track of more than 32,000 free journals. [...]

Did you know that the cost to put an electronic copy of a single article on reserve for just two semesters can cost more than it would have cost to pay a professional publisher to make the article fully open access in the first place? Over at the Copyright Clearance Center, I just looked up [...]

New post on The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics – suggests  new Creative Commons – fair copyright and CC-free to read licenses, redefinition of noncommercial to clarify that educational use is okay, and redefinition of public domain as CC-sharealike (preferably in perpetuity).  Details at http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2011/12/lets-raise-floor-proposal-for-creative.html

New post on http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2011/12/is-ojs-simple-statement-of-open-access.html on the topic of Articulating the Commons.

Just posted on The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics: noncommercial means noncommercial: Creative Commons discussion In brief, asks whether by “noncommercial”, some Creative Commons license users might mean, “this does not belong in the commercial sphere”, rather than “I reserve commercial rights for myself (or my organization)”. Asks whether advocating for noncommercial is a good [...]

Just posted to The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics Abstract As reported by Suber & Sutton in the December 2011 SPARC Open Access Newsletter, only a small minority (15%) of society-owned fully open access journals use Creative Commons licenses, and as Shieber found in 2009, of all the journals listed in DOAJ, only 24% use [...]

Available for download from:   http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2012/2012365.pdf Thanks to the U.S. Department of Education for making this report freely available. This will help me with the economics analysis of scholarly communication for my thesis – which in turn is designed to help develop models to make sure that the billions of collection dollars spent by academic libraries [...]

Following is a contribution of mine to the Creative Commons 4.0 discussion.  For more of the discussion, see the cc-licenses list. Maciej Pendolski’s point about differing rights depending on the format is an important one. This is not simply a matter of physical formats, but could also have applications in the digital world. For example, [...]

Apologies for duplication – I think this belongs on both cc-licenses and the cc-community list. I expect that I will only write a very few messages where this makes sense. Rather than having a few of us decide on what the commons is or should be, why not invite everyone to participate in the discussion [...]

As posted to the cc-licenses list December 20, 2011 A few thoughts towards the version 4.0 discussions, focusing on noncommercial: Noncommercial, to me, is NOT the most restrictive of the CC license elements, except in a technical sense. This is because noncommercial – the public sphere – is the very essence of the commons. As [...]