Book Review: Copyright and E-learning: A Guide for Practitioners, 2nd ed. by...
In Copyright and E-Learning, A Guide for Practitioners, Jane Secker and Chris Morrison provide guidance to educational practitioners working with copyright content. While the book is particularly of...
View ArticlePost-publication blues: how getting published can be the beginning and not...
To many authors, the point of publication can feel like the culmination of a process; the moment one’s troubles are over. But for many others, it can mark the start of a new set of wholly unanticipated...
View ArticleIt’s time for “pushmi-pullyu” open access: servicing the distinct needs of...
The open access movement has failed. Self-archiving and open-access journals are struggling to deliver 100% open access and probably never will. Moreover, readers, the curious minds it was hoped...
View ArticleThe Publishing Trap! A game of scholarly communication
In a complex, evolving scholarly communications environment, it is more important than ever for researchers to have access to information and support resources relating to copyright and intellectual...
View ArticleFive lessons for researchers who want to collaborate with governments and...
The appeal of collaborating with a government agency, or an organisation funded by one, seems obvious. It provides researchers with much needed resources and information, while also offering...
View ArticleConflicting academic attitudes to copyright are slowing the move to open access
Where previously authors would typically assign rights in a scholarly work to an academic publisher, the open access movement has prompted a shift towards retention of rights and the use of creative...
View ArticleA librarian perspective on Sci-Hub: the true solution to the scholarly...
Sci-Hub is a pirate website that provides free access to millions of research papers otherwise locked behind paywalls. Widespread dissatisfaction with scholarly communications has led many to overlook...
View ArticleThe Open Research Library: Centralisation without Openness
Resolving the question of how to provide an infrastructure for open access books and monographs has remained a persistent problem for researchers, librarians and funders. Knowledge Unlatched’s recent...
View ArticleWhat the history of copyright in academic publishing tells us about Open...
It has become a fact of academic life, that when researchers publish papers in academic journals, they sign away the copyright to their research, or licence it for distribution. However, from a...
View ArticleOpen access to teaching material – how far have we come?
One of the foundational aims of the open access movement, set out in the Budapest Open Access Initiative, was to provide access to research not only to scholars, but to “teachers, students and other...
View ArticleCRediT Check – Should we welcome tools to differentiate the contributions...
Elsevier is the latest in a lengthening list of publishers to announce their adoption for 1,200 journals of the CASRAI Contributor Role Taxonomy (CRediT). Authors of papers in these journals will be...
View ArticleData protection laws apply to anyone who collects information about a living...
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has significant implications for academic researchers. The Royal Historical Society recently published a set of guidelines to help researchers navigate the...
View ArticleWhat happens when you find your open access PhD thesis for sale on Amazon?
Last year a number of early career academics discovered that their PhD theses, which had been deposited in institutional open access repositories, were being sold for profit via Amazon Seller pages. In...
View ArticleHow will the Rights Retention Strategy affect scholarly publishing?
The extent that authors retain control over their published research is dependent on what rights they sign over to their publisher prior to publication. As part of efforts to promote the immediate open...
View ArticleReviewing the Rights Retention Strategy – A pathway to wider Open Access?
Launched in 2021 by cOAlition S (an international consortium of research funders) the Rights Retention Strategy (RRS) aims to ensure that researchers funded by these organisations retain the rights to...
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