On 01/15/2013 12:15 AM, danah boyd wrote:
To the broader issues, you'd be amazed at how often you can negotiate copyright with publishers if you try.
Indeed. For people interested in taking the steps to make their work open access, our own Peter Suber offers much clarity and guidance in his book of the same name. http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/hoap/Open_Access_(the_book) Also, this was in the news yesterday. Harvard has taken another step on the open access front, encouraging its researchers to resign from "toll access" journals. http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/24/harvard-university-journal-pub...
Exasperated by rising subscription costs charged by academic publishers, Harvard University has encouraged its faculty members to make their research freely available through open access journals and to resign from publications that keep articles behind paywalls. A memo from Harvard Library to the university's 2,100 teaching and research staff called for action after warning it could no longer afford the price hikes imposed by many large journal publishers, which bill the library around $3.5m a year. ...