Intellectual debates in public forums
In the latest issue of JASIST is an article by Marcia Bates, which is a response to an article by Birger Hjørland, which is a response to an article by Marcia Bates. Bates’ first article was published...
View ArticleLa biblioteca digital com a lloc
This is a new post… not one of my backlog. Written in full this very day. Back six months ago or more Gary and I got an email from the Director of the Consorci de Biblioteques Università ries de...
View ArticlePeer review and institutional repositories
“Now you have two problems…”: On mandating Open Access, from Open Access Anthropology So, you might ask yourself: what in the world is the [scholarly society that publishes its own journal] providing...
View ArticleOpen access potential Catch-22
I’ve written here before about open access, though it’s been a while. And way back in 2005 I wrote about the Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development’s office offering small grants to...
View ArticleJASIST Going Green
From the latest issue of JASIST: As of January 2008, the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) will follow the green road open-access model, whereby authors...
View ArticleNitpicking the Google Book Search agreement
Today’s big news: Google and the Authors Guild and Association of American Publishers have come to an agreement on the lawsuit that was brought against Google in 2005 about the Google Book Search...
View ArticleThe Table of Contents I’d Like To See
Maybe I’m just having a bad week, but I’m starting to find that the journals that I regularly browse (that is, the journals for which I subscribe to an RSS feed or an email table of contents service)...
View ArticleMy Copyfight
Actually it’s our copyfight, but my had a better ring to it. Here’s the backstory. Lorri Mon, a friend and colleague, is the guest editor of a special issue of the journal The Reference Librarian, on...
View ArticleIn which Pomerantz responds to his loyal fans
I’ve gotten a lot of love and kudos from the interwebs from my recent post, in which I document in nauseating detail my taking a principled stand on retaining copyright to an article I and a colleague...
View ArticleWhat Then Must We Do? (Part 1)
I was recently asked to talk to the UNC library staff about open access & copyright issues. Why was I, who am neither a lawyer nor a scholar whose research focuses on publishing and OA, invited to...
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