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Selected Writings on Open Access, 2002–2011
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By Peter Suber

The MIT Press

Peter Suber has been a leading advocate for open access since 2001 and has worked full time on issues of open access since 2003. As a professor of philosophy during the early days of the internet, he realized its power and potential as a medium for scholarship. As he writes now, “it was like an asteroid crash, fundamentally changing the environment, challenging dinosaurs to adapt, and challenging all of us to figure out whether we were dinosaurs.” When Suber began putting his writings and course materials online for anyone to use for any purpose, he soon experienced the benefits of that wider exposure. In 2001, he started a newsletter―the Free Online Scholarship Newsletter, which later became the SPARC Open Access Newsletter―in which he explored the implications of open access for research and scholarship. This book offers a selection of some of Suber's most significant and influential writings on open access from 2002 to 2010.

In these texts, Suber makes the case for open access to research; answers common questions, objections, and misunderstandings; analyzes policy issues; and documents the growth and evolution of open access during its most critical early decade.

Chapters

Frontmatter

by The MIT Press

1. Foreword

by Robert Darnton

2. Preface

by Peter Suber

3. Introduction

3-1. Knowledge as a Public Good

by Peter Suber

3-2. Open Access, Markets, and Missions

by Peter Suber

4. What Is Open Access?

4-1. Open Access Overview

by Peter Suber

4-2. Removing the Barriers to Research: An Introduction to Open Access for Librarians

by Peter Suber

4-3. The Taxpayer Argument for Open Access

by Peter Suber

4-4. “It's the Authors, Stupid!”

by Peter Suber

4-5. Six Things That Researchers Need to Know about Open Access

by Peter Suber

4-6. Trends Favoring Open Access

by Peter Suber

4-7. Gratis and Libre Open Access

by Peter Suber

5. More on the Case for Open Access

5-1. The Scaling Argument

by Peter Suber

5-2. Problems and Opportunities (Blizzards and Beauty)

by Peter Suber

5-3. Open Access and the Self-Correction of Knowledge

by Peter Suber

5-4. Open Access and the Last-Mile Problem for Knowledge

by Peter Suber

6. Delivering Open Access

6-1. The Case for OAI in the Age of Google

by Peter Suber

6-2. Good Facts, Bad Predictions

by Peter Suber

6-3. No-Fee Open-Access Journals

by Peter Suber

6-4. Balancing Author and Publisher Rights

by Peter Suber

6-5. Flipping a Journal to Open Access

by Peter Suber

6-6. Society Publishers with Open Access Journals

by Peter Suber

6-7. Ten Challenges for Open-Access Journals

by Peter Suber

7. Funder and University Policies

7-1. The Final Version of the NIH Public-Access Policy

7-2. Another OA Mandate: The Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006

by Peter Suber

7-3. Twelve Reminders about FRPAA

by Peter Suber

7-4. An Open Access Mandate for the NIH

by Peter Suber

7-5. The Open Access Mandate at Harvard

by Peter Suber

7-6. A Bill to Overturn the NIH Policy

by Peter Suber

7-7. Open Access Policy Options for Funding Agencies and Universities

by Peter Suber

8. Quality and Open Access

8-1. Open Access and Quality

by Peter Suber

8-2. Thinking about Prestige, Quality, and Open Access

by Peter Suber

9. The Debate

9-1. Not Napster for Science

by Peter Suber

9-2. Two Distractions

by Peter Suber

9-3. Praising Progress, Preserving Precision

by Peter Suber

9-4. Who Should Control Access to Research Literature?

by Peter Suber

9-5. Four Analogies to Clean Energy

by Peter Suber

10. More on the Landscape of Open Access

10-1. Promoting Open Access in the Humanities

by Peter Suber

10-2. Helping Scholars and Helping Libraries

by Peter Suber

10-3. Unbinding Knowledge: A Proposal for Providing Open Access to Past Research Articles, Starting with the Most Important

by Peter Suber

10-4. Open Access to Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)

by Peter Suber

10-5. Open Access for Digitization Projects

by Peter Suber

11. Bits of the Bigger Picture

11-1. Analogies and Precedents for the FOS Revolution

by Peter Suber

11-2. Thoughts on First and Second-Order Scholarly Judgments

by Peter Suber

11-3. Saving the Oodlehood and Shebangity of the Internet

by Peter Suber

11-4. What's the Ullage of Your Library?

by Peter Suber

Additional Resources

12. Glossary

by Peter Suber

13. Index

by Peter Suber
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