Colleagues from John Jay College posted these recommendations to our CUNY libraries listserv today, and they’re well worth a read for those interested in open access publishing. Note that may of us likely receive the NEA Higher Education Journal in paper at home.

“Larry Sullivan pointed out the following two excellent articles on the need for open access models to liberate libraries from the wildly inflating costs charged by publishers:

In The New York Review of Books, Dec. 23, 2010
The Library: Three Jeremiads by Robert Darnton
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/dec/23/library-three-jeremiads/

Fister, Barbara. Liberating Knowledge: A Librarian’s Manifesto for Change. Thought & Action: The NEA Higher Education Journal. Fall 2010, p.83-90. (This should be available online at the NEA website, but doesn’t seem to be yet. http://www.nea.org/home/1821.htm )

Bonnie

Bonnie R. Nelson
Professor and Associate Librarian for Information Systems
Lloyd Sealy Library
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY”

Colleagues from John Jay College posted these recommendations to our CUNY libraries listserv today, and they’re well worth a read for those interested in open access publishing. Note that may of us likely receive the NEA Higher Education Journal in paper at home.

“Larry Sullivan pointed out the following two excellent articles on the need for open access models to liberate libraries from the wildly inflating costs charged by publishers:

In The New York Review of Books, Dec. 23, 2010
The Library: Three Jeremiads by Robert Darnton
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/dec/23/library-three-jeremiads/

Fister, Barbara. Liberating Knowledge: A Librarian’s Manifesto for Change. Thought & Action: The NEA Higher Education Journal. Fall 2010, p.83-90. (This should be available online at the NEA website, but doesn’t seem to be yet. http://www.nea.org/home/1821.htm )

Bonnie

Bonnie R. Nelson
Professor and Associate Librarian for Information Systems
Lloyd Sealy Library
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY”

[Stephen Klein]

btw, Jane Fitzpatrick pointed me this article containing some of the issues we have been chewing on:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/17/science/open-science-challenges-journal-tradition-with-web-collaboration.html

[Stephen Klein]

another one:

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/01/locked-in-the-ivory-tower-why-jstor-imprisons-academic-research/251649/

[Matthew K. Gold (he/him)]

Here’s a rejoinder to that article, Stephen, from a librarian at the University of Minnesota –

“Academic publishing is full of problems; lets get them right.”
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/copyrightlibn/2012/01/factcheckingtheatlantic.html

[Beth Evans]

The article in the Atlantic is a start, and it’s good to see the well-thought-out rejoinder. However, let us hope that readers of the article in The Atlantic read through the many thoughtful comment that follow the article. Librarians and other scholars have made some of the same points that the Copyright Librarian, Nancy Sims, makes. By commenting as a direct follow-up to the article, there is a better chance that the general public who read The Atlantic will see how the article is clarified by the comments. As right as Sims may be, she is preaching to the choir. People in non-academia need to become more familiar with the economic issues of scholarly publishing, and, unfortunately, I don’t think they are reading Nancy Sims’ blog.

[Stephen Klein]

Despite the obvious problems with the piece, appreciated that the issue of IP in the academy is becoming foregrounded beyond the academy.

[Marcos Wasem]

I would recommend this one, talking about Elsevier:

http://chronicle.com/article/As-Journal-Boycott-Grows/130600

[Marcos Wasem]

We should also pay attention to the initiative called “The Cost of Knowledge”, a site where scholars sign up to refuse to either publish, review or make edits for Elsevier:
http://thecostofknowledge.com/