Free Access Theory (Society/Issues/Intellectual_Property/Free_Access_Theory)
up Free Access TheoryThis category contains references about several kinds of initiatives whose aim is to free access to peer reviewed scientific papers, namely, "that body of work for which the author does not and never has expected to SELL the words" (S.Harnad) and to promote institutional self-archiving of electronic preprints, in the respect of protocols and standards for electronic archives interoperability.EntriesEprints.org http://www.eprints.org/ Dedicated to the freeing of the refereed research literature online through author/institution self-archiving. Provides free (GNU) software for self-archiving. Public Library of Science http://www.plos.org/ A non-profit organization of scientists committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature freely accessible to scientists and to the public around the world. Promotion of free access online journals and eprints archives. Free Online Scholarship Newsletter http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/ (FOS) News and discussion on the migration of print scholarship to the internet and efforts to make it available to readers free of charge. Newsletter, forum, FAQ and a comprehensive directory on electronic archives. Budapest Open Access Initiative http://www.soros.org/openaccess/ Aims to accelerate progress in the international effort to make research articles in all academic fields freely available on the Internet. Nature Debates: E-Access http://www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access/index.html Online forum hosted by Nature Online concerning the impact of the web on the future of publishing and the dissemination of scientific information. Create Change http://www.createchange.org/ A resource for faculty and librarian action to reclaim scholarly communication. Main issues concern subscription prices for scholarly journals and help for journals willing to find publishing options better suited to their academic missions. Rights Metadata for Open archiving http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ls/disresearch/romeo/index.html (RoMEO) A project funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee to investigate the rights issues surrounding the self-archiving of research in the UK academic community under the Open Archive Initiative's protocol for metadata harvesting (OAI). Legal issues, surveys, links to related discussions. First Monday - The Streetperformer Protocol & Digital Copyrights http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue4_6/kelsey/ Introducing the Street Performer Protocol, an electronic-commerce mechanism to facilitate the private financing of public works. Using this protocol, people would place donations in escrow, to be released to an author in the event that the promised work be put in the public domain. Peter Suber's Guide to the FOS Movement http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/guide.htm Comprehensive guide to the terminology, acronyms, initiatives, standards, technologies, and players in the free online scholarship initiative. Measure Calls for Wider Access to Federally Financed Research http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/26/politics/26LIBR.html?ex=1057638190&ei=1&en=24bfe95d73754002 A group challenging the power of established scientific journals says legislation will be introduced to make the results of all federally financed research available to the public. Online or Invisible? http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/online-nature01/ Article by Steve Lawrence appeared in Nature (2001) analyzing the citation rate of online and off line articles. Articles freely available online are more highly cited, free online availability substantially increases a paper's impact. Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html All of Germany's principal scientific and scholarly institutions, including the Max-Planck Society, as well as a growing number of their counterparts from other countries (such as France's CNRS) have signed their commitment to open access to scientific and scholarly research. Creating a global knowledge network http://lanl.arxiv.org/blurb/pg01unesco.html Considerations on how to build a knowledge network for research communication and on its potential impact, by P. Ginsparg, one of the founders of ArXiv. Declaration of San José - Towards the Virtual Health Library http://www.bireme.br/bvs/por/ideclar.htm An initiative aiming to construct a digital medium 'as a unified response to our health situation, facilitating wide access to information for the permanent improvement of health of the people'. Information Liberation http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/pubs/98il/index.html Examines radical alternatives for replacing mass media with network media, abolishing intellectual property, and changing social institutions that create a demand for surveillance. Free full text in html and pdf. Self-Archiving FAQ http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/ Answers to frequently asked questions about self archiving including what and how. Has a "I worry about..." set of questions too with advice and answers to issues. American Scientist Forum on Open Access http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/september98-forum.html Forum devoted to the freeing of online access to the peer-reviewed research literature. Continuous since 1998. Scholarly Journals at the Crossroads: A Subversive Proposal for Electronic Publishing http://www.arl.org/scomm/subversive/ An internet discussion about scientific and scholarly journals and their future. Andrew Odlyzko: Papers on Electronic Publishing http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/eworld.html A selection of papers on the future of electronic publication in the field of academic communication, its impact and consequences. Stevan Harnad on Free Access Initiatives http://cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/intpub.html How to free access to scientific literature: papers by one of the leaders of the open archives initiative. SubcategoriesJournal Cost Issues Related categoriesCopyrights Pages or organizations which debating various issues surrounding copyrights, such as length of coverage or whether the Free Access Scientific Archives Electronic Archives listed in this category provide free and unrestricted access to peer reviewed scientific papers and academic publications. Most of these archives run Eprints, a freeware for Free Access Scientific Journals Electronic Journals listed in this category provide free and unrestricted access to peer reviewed articles. Intellectual Property This category is for information on all types of Intellectual Property, especially as viewed from the perspective of librarians, educators, and the public. International and US resources on Intellectual Property Intellectual property law encompasses the process of obtaining and enforcing legal protection for ideas and Open Access Resources Open access resources are meant to be an alternative to for-profit resources. This category gathers several kinds of works inspired by initiatives whose aim is to promote collaborative Open Access Organizations Organizations engaged in several initiatives for funding and promoting dissemination of knowledge, in particular access to scientific resources. Visit http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/ for Neigbour categoriesDigital Rights Management Digital Rights Management (DRM) is a type of intellectual property control employed by many Genetic Resources The subset of Genetic Resources covers two broad areas of concern about intellectual property: aspects which impact on knowledge about the medical uses of genetic resources and those that impact on Music Freedom Groups or pages defending the unrestricted distribution of music/songs, instead of a few large corporations having monopoly grants on them. They usually believe that artists are actually Organizations Patents Piracy Trusted Computing Trusted Computing (commonly abbreviated TC) is a technology developed and promoted by the Trusted Computing Group (TCG). The term is taken from the field of trusted systems and has a specialized Napster and MP3 For sites and pages addressing the issue of mp3 sharing. (This section is quite beta and buggy, have patience. Thanks)
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