The final version is now available in the SFU Institutional Repository here. The post-defence draft of my dissertation, Freedom for scholarship in the internet age, can be downloaded as a PDF from here will soon be available (on a temporary basis) in the library’s thesis intake system, at: https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/thesis/etd7530 After the library audit is complete, [...]

Just posted on my scholarly blog The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics: a Creative Commons and open access critique series post, gathering my writings to date on this topic. This work emerges from but goes beyond analysis begun in my dissertation, and is very much a work in progress. The reason it is essential to [...]

Powerpoint of open access week presentation for CMNS 435, Information rights in the information age, Monday, October 22, 2012,  Open access: a critical perspective

An argument that I see as important but missing: is CC-BY even an appropriate goal for open access at all? This is a separate question from whether it should be a short or long-term priority. I argue that CC-BY is NOT an appropriate goal for open access. There are many reasons for this argument, too [...]

The September 30, 2012 issue of my Dramatic Growth of Open Access Series is now available on The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics.

A PDF of the defence draft of my dissertation, Freedom for scholarship in the internet age, can be downloaded from here:               Dissertation defence draft

This summer the Research Councils U.K. adopted a stronger open access policy, as explained by Peter Suber in the September 2012 SPARC Open Access Newsletter. While the strong support for open access, including funding for open access publishing, is welcome news, this policy includes some ill-thought-out provisions and open access advocates are calling for revisions [...]

Many in the open access movement consider CC-BY, the Creative Commons Attribution license, to be the very embodiment of the spirit of the Budapest Open Access Initiative – giving away all rights to one’s work, including commercial rights, for open access. My own take on this is that while CC-BY can provide a useful tool [...]

This clip of my CBC Radio Early Edition Interview August 13, 2012 with Kathryn Gretsinger (about 10 minutes) is a reflection on the significance of the University of British Columbia Library / Elsevier text-mining arrangement inspired by open data advocate Heather Piwowar. Thoughts on the potential for acceleration of discovery through text-mining from cancer research [...]

“Opinion piece” is the term used by Audrey McCullough in a recent interview with OA journalist Richard Poynder. This is important to note because this opinion piece could easily influence public policy with open access mandate policies currently in discussion, such as the UK Research Councils UK work to draft a stronger open access policy. [...]