Can this gulf be bridged?
Litigants in court cases often disagree sharply about the law and its application to the facts, so it is probably not a surprise that the briefs filed in the District Court’s re-examination of its...
View ArticleWhat happens when there is no publication agreement?
Scholarly communication discussions and debates usually focus, quite obviously, on the terms of publication agreements and the licenses those agreements often give back to authors to use their own work...
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Open Access at the tipping point
[ guest post by Paolo Mangiafico ] As readers of this blog almost certainly know, this week was Open Access Week, and it’s been heartening to see all of the stories about how open access is creating...
View ArticleRebels in the Campus Bookstore
A guest post by Will Cross, Director of Copyright and Digital Scholarship at North Carolina State University As the semester winds down most normal people are sweating through final projects,...
View ArticleShould you #DeleteAcademiaEdu?
[ Note: Many readers of this blog have probably heard by now that Kevin Smith, who has been the primary author here, will soon be leaving Duke to be the Dean of Libraries at the University of Kansas....
View ArticleSome radical thoughts about Sci-Hub
Radical, as I like to remind folks, means to get to the root of an issue (same derivation as radish). So when I say I am offering some radical thoughts about Sci-Hub and the controversy it has...
View ArticleMoving into the open
Since it was announced that I will move shortly to the University of Kansas, several people have asked me if I intend to continue blogging, and have kindly encouraged me to do so. This blog, of...
View ArticleHere we go again: latest GSU ruling an odd victory for libraries
My first thought when I read the new ruling in the Georgia State copyright lawsuit brought by publishers over e-reserves was of one of those informal rules that all law students learn — don’t tick off...
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We’re back! (and so is the GSU fair use e-reserves appeal…)
Dave Hansen, Director of Copyright and Scholarly Communications After a few months of quiet, I’m happy to say that the Copyright & Scholarly Communication team at Duke is bringing this blog back to...
View ArticleLSU v Elsevier – Paying Twice (or More) for Scholarship?
When discussing the cost of library collection purchases, I sometimes try to make the point that universities are really paying for scholarly work twice–once by paying faculty salaries to research and...
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