Editor’s note: Throughout Open Access Week (Oct 19-23), the UI Libraries will be sharing the views of our UI colleagues on the topic of open access. by Peter Likarish, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Computer Science and Bridget Draxler, Ph.d Candidate, Department of English Nicholas Carr’s “The Big Switch” argues that the internet, and computing in general,Continue reading “Open Access as Utility”

Editor’s note: Throughout Open Access Week (Oct 19-23), the UI Libraries will be sharing the views of our UI colleagues on the topic of open access. by Edward Miner, Ph.D., International Studies Bibliographer Although Open Access movements are unfolding within the legal frameworks of individual countries, their most dramatic potential benefits are really global inContinue reading “Open Access and Global Information Divide”

Editor’s note: Throughout Open Access Week (Oct 19-23), the UI Libraries will be sharing the views of our UI colleagues on the topic of open access. by Dr. Christopher Squier, Professor, College of Dentistry and Christine White, Librarian, College of Dentistry Traditionally, the cost of publishing articles in print journals has been borne (apart fromContinue reading “Who Should Pay? Does Open Access Mean Free Access”

Editor’s Note: Throughout Open Access Week (Oct 19-23), the UI Libraries will be sharing the views of our UI colleagues on the topic of open access. by Dr. William Sivitz, Professor of Internal Medicine I recently published an article in PlosOne (Mitochondrial Targeted Coenzyme Q, Superoxide, and Fuel Selectivity in Endothelial Cells by Brian D. Fink,Continue reading “Open Access Publishing in the Health Sciences”

Editor’s Note: Throughout Open Access Week (Oct 19-23), the UI Libraries will be sharing the views of our UI colleagues on the topic of open access.         by Raymond Riezman, Ph.D., Henry B. Tippie Research Professor of Economics The Economics Bulletin is an open-access letters journal founded in 2001 with the mission of providing free andContinue reading “Open Access and Publication Immediacy”

Editor’s Note: Throughout Open Access Week (Oct 19-23), the UI Libraries will be sharing the views of our UI colleagues on the topic of open access. In November 2005 Creative Commons published the following conversation with UI Associate Professor, Kembrew McLeod. At the time he had recently published his book “Freedom of Expression®” under aContinue reading “Open Access and the Creative Commons”

 by Peter Suber http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/brief.htm Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. What makes it possible is the internet and the consent of the author or copyright-holder. OA is entirely compatible with peer review, and all the major OA initiatives for scientific and scholarly literature insistContinue reading “A Very Brief Introduction to Open Access”