Category Archives: publishing
Publishers, Green OA & Institutional vs Subject Repositories
Back in November, I was among the many authors to receive an email from Emerald Group Publishing, touting the publisher’s “commitment to protecting your work,” and announcing their use of the Attributor service to track down “unauthorized copies” of “my” … Continue reading
Filed under copyright, funding, OA, Other blogs, publishing
Modernizing vs Censoring: Where’s the line?
Hello folks — yes I am back and feeling much better, thanks! Looking forward to a new, improved year – this time hopefully without the bike and car accidents that plagued 2010. ——- What do we do with a “classic” … Continue reading
Filed under censorship, inclusion/exclusion, publishing, racism
Open access debate at CHLA/ABSC: not about OA at all
There was a lot of activity around the topic of open access at this year’s Canadian Health Libraries Association / Association des bibliothèques de la santé du Canada Conference in Kingston, ON: Our new Open Access Interest Group had its … Continue reading
Filed under digitization, ethics, Health, OA, publishing
Internet Linking is Analogous to Citation
Everyone with whom I have discussed the issue of Internet linking agrees that Internet hyperlinks are a form of citation. But the subset of the population with whom I discuss these issues is not representative of the entire world, clearly. … Continue reading
Filed under censorship, copyright, digitization, Intellectual freedom, Internet, IP, Other blogs, publishing
CMAJ “No longer free for all”
I’ve been thinking about the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ)‘s decision to convert from being 100% free to read online to only partially so, come January. Access Change The Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) has been entirely free to read, … Continue reading
Filed under copyright, digitization, funding, Health, OA, publishing
Academic librarians and research: a response
Before you read this post, go here and read Mark Rabnett’s blog post, ““For academic librarians what’s hard to reach is time for research.” I started leaving a comment there, but soon realised that my comment was likely to challenge the … Continue reading
Filed under academic libraries, Blogroll, Other blogs, publishing, The Profession
“Fake” journals and recent CMAJ article on librarians
“Fake” Journals In late April, when the Scientist broke the “Merck/Elsevier fake journal” story, my initial reaction was cynical surprise that this story was getting so much attention. Honestly, we see “fake” (i.e. sponsored) journals and “fake” (i.e. ghostwritten) articles … Continue reading
Filed under ethics, Health, publishing, The Profession
Hark – PubMedCentral Canada on the horizon!
Thanks to Dean Giustini for the original heads-up on this: In a press release titled “Canada joins international effort to provide access to health research,” the NRC (parent organization of CISTI, the de facto Canadian national library of science & … Continue reading
Filed under government, Health, OA, preservation, publishing
Conflating OA with other issues we like
At the 2nd International Public Knowledge Project Conference‘s CLA pre-conference, a bunch of librarians and a few assorted others got together to talk about open access (OA). One thing I kept finding myself coming back to is something I’ve been … Continue reading
Filed under academic libraries, IP, OA, publishing
