Writings on open access

I've written a lot over the years about open access to science and scholarship. This bibliography of my writings on OA focuses less on news and more on commentary and analysis —pieces that may still be of interest. It includes books, newsletter essays, journal articles, preprints, and interviews. I omit pure news pieces, as well as minor pieces like blog posts, listserv messages, letters to editors, presentation slides, and small web pages. I plan to keep it up to date. — Peter Suber.

• Suggested short URL for this page = bit.ly/suber-oa-writings.
• This version of the list (started August 2013) supersedes an earlier version.
• For my work on topics other than open access, see my separate list of writings.
• Originally I included interviews on this list only when they were writings. But after a while that seemed arbitrary and I began including video and podcast interviews as well. As a result, the list is now more complete even if the title is less accurate.
• My ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is 0000-0002-3577-2890. Most of the works below appeared before ORCID existed. But I support ORCID and include my number here to help associate it with my writings.
• Search these writings. Bear with me while I make the index for this custom search engine more complete.

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• Student Voices Episode 2: Open Access. A 52-minute podcast interview with me by Ricky Pimentel and Roger Paxton, October 30, 2019.

• Peter Suber: The largest obstacles to open access are unfamiliarity and misunderstanding of open access itself. An interview with me by Santosh C. Hulagabali, June 29, 2019.
  • Copy in DASH.

• Open Access: A Conversation with Peter Suber. A 48-minute video interview with me by Sue Erickson.

• Discussions on Open Access: Open Access Models and Experimentation. A podcast interview with me and Amy Brand (Director of MIT Press) by Chris Gondek, recorded November 2, 2018, released November 8, 2018.

• Realising the BOAI vision: Peter Suber's Advice, Open and Shut? December 21, 2017.

• The Case for Open Access Research with Peter Suber from the Harvard Open Access Project. A 56 minute interview with me by Jack Cashman, recorded August 23, 2017, released October 8, 2017.

• Open Access: Advocacy, Library Journal, March 29, 2017. An interview with me by John Parsons.
  • This article was translated into Portuguese by Artur Weber.

• Peter Suber on the State of Open Access, October 18, 2016. A 52-minute interview with me by Joe McArthur and members of a networked audience. (My part of the 61-minute video starts at around minute 9.) Or read the transcript, released November 15, 2016.

• Preface (co-authored with Kyle Courtney) to David Hansen, Digitizing Orphan Works: Legal Strategies to Reduce Risks for Open Access to Copyrighted Orphan Works, Harvard Library, August 2016. (Kyle Courtney and I are also co-editors of the report.)

• Preface to Solomon, Laakso, and Björk, Converting Scholarly Journals to Open Access: A Review of Approaches and Experiences, Harvard Library, August 2016. (I'm also the editor of the report.)

• Jamie Love interviews Peter Suber, August 9, 2016. A 47-minute interview with me by Jamie Love.

• Knowledge Unbound: Selected Writings on Open Access, 2002–2011, MIT Press, 2016.
  • My book home page, with links to OA editions
  • MIT Press home page on the book
  • Copies in DASH.
  • The book was translated into Japanese by ​Masamitsu Kuriyama, under the title, 知識解縛, June 2019.

• What If All Research Papers Were Free? Brian Lehrer Show, WNYC FM, March 15, 2016. An 18-minute podcast interview with me by Brian Lehrer.

• History Slam Episode Seventy-Nine: Open Access, History Matters, March 4, 2016. A 45 minute podcast interview with me by Sean Graham.

• Open Access in Action: Gary Price interviews Peter Suber, Library Journal, February 1, 2016. A 28 minute video interview with me by Gary Price.

• Journals Declaring Independence from Corporate Publishers: Past and future, Scholastica, January 18, 2016. An interview with me by Danielle Padula.

• What is OA and where is it going – in a conversation on video link with Caroline Sutton, December 1, 2015. An interview with me by Caroline Sutton, at The 10th Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing 2015.

• How Open Access built a movement, October 10, 2015. An interview with me by Ethan Zuckerman, at Freedom to Innovate, a conference organized by the MIT Media Lab.

• An Interview with Peter Suber on Open Access, Library Journal, September 30, 2015. An interview with me by Cheryl LaGuardia.

• "A living open book," in Hazel Woodward, ed., Ebooks for education: Realising the vision, Ubiquity Press, November 2014, pp. 113-118. (A case study of my book, Open Access, MIT Press, 2012.)
  • Copy in DASH.

• Preface to Martin Paul Eve, Open Access and the Humanities: Contexts, Controversies and the Future, Cambridge, University Press, November 2014.
  • Copy in DASH.

• How Journal Prices Impede Access: A Harvard Library Strategic Conversation, October 3, 2014. My interview with Ted Bergstrom. There is no video or transcript of the conversation, but we did make this 80-minute podcast.

• Open Access Infrastructure: Where we are and where we need to go, Information Standards Quarterly, Summer 2014. An interview with me and several others by Cynthia Hodgson. (The text in the section entitled, "Institutional Policies for Open Access," is Hodgson's summary or paraphrase of my interview responses, not my own writing.)

• Interview with Advisory Board member Peter Suber, ScienceOpen, May 29, 2014. An interview with me by Stephanie Dawson.

• Elsevier Takedown Notices: A Q&A with Peter Suber. An interview with me by Kira Poplowski for the Harvard Library, April 16, 2014.

• Open-access research about open-access law, Journal of Open Access to Law, December 2013.

• The State of Open Access. An interview with me and Elizabeth Silva, by Shauna Gordon-McKeon, Center for Open Science, November 27, 2013

• Office Hours: Harvard Faculty Talk about Open Access. A 7-minute video interview with Emily Kilcer and Ben Steinberg for the Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication, November 6, 2013.

• Open access: six myths to put to rest, The Guardian, October 21, 2013.

• Interview with Christine Fruin for the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries, October 23, 2013. A video (63 minutes). Also see the event announcement.

• Interview with various faculty and administrators at the Universities of Ljubljana and Maribor, October 21, 2013. A video (76 minutes). Also see the event announcement (in Slovenian).

• Information Now: Open Access and the Public Good. A radio interview with me by Wendy Hagenmaier, Fred Rascoe, and Lizzy Rolando, for Georgia Tech University. (Also here.) I'm guest four out of five. Recorded August 15, 2013, released October 21, 2013.

• Peter Suber on the state of Open Access: Where are we, what still needs to be done? An interview with me by Richard Poynder. Open and Shut, July 23, 2013.

• Peter Suber: The Imperative of Open Access. An interview with me by Alison Head. Project Information Literacy, March 27, 2013.

• Key Open Access Policy Initiatives in the US, Europe, and Australia. Audio interviews by Leslie Chan with Alma Swan, Jean-Francois Dechamp, Tom Cochran, and me, recorded March 22, 2013. My segment starts at minute 2:40 and lasts about four minutes.

• United States doubles down on open access to federally-funded research, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, March 2, 2013.
  • This article was translated into French by Anna Chekovsky.
  • Copy at Earlham.

• Federal Drive Interview. An 8'40" audio interview with me by Tom Temin and Emily Kopp for Federal News Radio, February 26, 2013.

• Open Access to Scientific Research Can Save Lives, co-authored with Darius Cuplinskas, Chronicle of Higher Education, December 3, 2012.

• The idea of an open-access evidence rack, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, December 2, 2012.
  • Copy at Earlham.

• How to make your own work open access. A dynamic set of instructions that will be updated as needed. Version 1.0 launched October 23, 2012.

• Good practices for university open-access policies. Co-authored with Stuart Shieber. A dynamic set of recommendations that will be updated regularly. Version 1.0 launched October 17, 2012.
  • On October 22, 2013, we released print and PDF editions of the text as it stood on September 23, 2013. The wiki version remains the most authoritative and up to date.
    • Copy of the October 2013 PDF edition in DASH.
  • On October 19, 2015, we released print and PDF editions of the text as it stood on September 7, 2015. As before, the wiki version remains the most authoritative and up to date.
    • Copy of the October 2015 PDF edition in DASH.

• Digital access to knowledge: Research chat with Harvard’s Peter Suber. An interview with me by John Wihbey of Journalist's Resource, October 16, 2012.

• “Open Access,” The Book. A 25-minute audio interview with me by Christopher Kenneally of the Copyright Clearance Center, recorded September 25, 2012.

• Book Talk: Peter Suber on Open Access. An 80-minute video interview with me by David Weinberger, recorded September 11, 2012.

• Tectonic movements toward OA in the UK and Europe, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, September 2, 2012.
  • Copy at Earlham.

• Opening Access to Research, Berfrois, August 24, 2012.
  • Reprinted on the Open Society Foundations blog, September 12, 2012.
  • Copy in DASH.

• Unlocking Research. A 28 minute audio interview with me by David Weinberger for Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, August 16, 2012.

• Ensuring open access for publicly funded research, BMJ, August 8, 2012. An editorial.

• Open Access, MIT Press, June 2012. The book became OA in June 2013, one year after publication.
  • My book home page of notes, reviews, updates, supplements, and links to OA editions.
  • The MIT Press page on the book.
  • Copies in DASH.
  • Choice named this an Outstanding Academic Title for 2013.
  • The book was translated into Polish by Roman Bogacewicz, Maciej Chojnowski, Wojciech Fenrich, Joanna Kielan, Andrzej Leśniak, Krzysztof Siewicz, Michał Starczewski, and Jakub Szprot, under the title Otwarty dostęp, Warsaw University Press, October 2014. There is both a print and OA edition.
  • It was translated into Chinese by Li Wu under the title Kaifang Cunqu Jianbian, China Ocean Press, January 2015. There is no OA edition.
  • It was translated into Spanish by Remedios Melero under the title Acceso Abierto, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, August 2015. There is both a print and OA edition.
  • It was translated into Arabic by Tahseen Al-Khateeb under the title الوصول الحر, QScience division of the Qatar Foundation, October 2015. There is both a print and OA edition.
  • It was translated into French by Marie Lebert under the title Qu’est-ce que l’accès ouvert ?, OpenEdition Press, October 2016. There is both a print and OA edition.

• The rise of libre open access, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, June 2, 2012.
  • Copy at Earlham.

• A tale of two bills: the Research Works Act and Federal Research Public Access Act, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, March 2, 2012.
  • Copy at Earlham.

• Open access journals from society publishers, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, December 2, 2011.
  • Copy at Earlham.

• Access to dangerous knowledge: reflections on 9/11 ten years later, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, September 2, 2011.
  • Copy at Earlham.

• Open Access and copyright, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, July 2, 2011.
  • Hélio Kuramoto translated this article into Portuguese, in three parts (1, 2, 3).
  • Constantinescu Nicolaie translated this article into Romanian.
  • Copy at Earlham.

• Suber: Leader of a Leaderless Revolution, Information Today, July 1, 2011. An interview with me by Richard Poynder. Also see Poynder's blog post of excerpts from the interview.
  • Joanna Grzeskowiak-Stepowicz translated this interview into Polish.

• Free Knowledge. A 24 minute audio interview with me by David Weinberger for the Harvard Library Innovation Laboratory, June 2, 2011.

• Seeking custody, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, June 2, 2011.
  • Copy at Earlham.

• Free Offline Access: A Primer on OA' (OA Prime), SPARC Open Access Newsletter, May 2, 2011.
  • copy in DASH.
  • Valeria Aleksandrova translated this article into German, Oleg Meister into Russian, and Alex Mogutov into Belarussian.
  • Copy at Earlham.

• Public Access to Federally Funded Research: Copyright and Other Issues. A 68-minute video discussion of federal open-access policy between me and Mark Seeley, Senior Vice President and General Counsel at Elsevier. Held at Harvard Law School, sponsored by the American Bar Association Committee on University Intellectual Property Law, and recorded April 9, 2012.
  • Also see my June 1, 2012, blog post on this event for some follow-up discussion.

• Open access as humanitarian aid, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, April 2, 2011.
  • Copy at Earlham.

• Recent watershed events, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, March 2, 2011.
  • Copy in DASH.

• Open for edits, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, March 2, 2011.
  • Copy at Earlham.

• Interview with Peter Suber, Springer Author Zone, February 11, 2012. An interview with me by Anita Bürk.

• Another US federal OA mandate, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, February 2, 2011.
  • Copy in at Earlham.

• Word contest #2, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, February 2, 2011.
  • Copy at Earlham.

• Open access in 2010, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, January 2, 2011.
  • The Digital Repository Federation translated this article into Japanese.
  • Copy at Earlham.

• Eleventh hour for SCOAP3, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, December 2, 2010.
  • Copy at Earlham.

• The US elections and open access, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, December 2, 2010.
  • Copy at Earlham.

• The mandates of October 2010, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, November 2, 2010.
  • Copy at Earlham.

• Politically selective calls for open access, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, November 2, 2010.
  • Copy at Earlham.

• Self-archiving diary, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, October 2, 2010.
  • Copy at Earlham.

• Discovery, rediscovery, and open access: Part 2, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, September 2, 2010.
  • Copy at Earlham.

• Discovery, rediscovery, and open access: Part 1, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, August 2, 2010.
  • Copy at Earlham.

• California against Nature, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, July 2, 2010.
  • Copy at Earlham.

• Unanimous faculty votes, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, June 2, 2010.
  • Copy at Earlham.

• FRPAA introduced in the US House of Representatives, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, May 2, 2010.
  • Copy at Earlham.

• A verb for the act providing open access, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, April 2, 2010.
  • Copy at Earlham.

• Open access, markets, and missions, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, March 2, 2010.
  • Copy at Earlham.

• Word contest, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, March 2, 2010.
  • Copy at Earlham.

• Four analogies to clean energy, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, February 2, 2010.
  • Copy at Earlham.

• Open access in 2009, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, January 2, 2010.
  • Copy at Earlham.

• Open access and the Google book settlement, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, December 2, 2009.
  • Copy at Earlham.

• Knowledge as a public good, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, November 2, 2009.
  • Copy at Earlham.

• Ten challenges for open-access journals, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, October 2, 2009.
  • Copy at Earlham.

• Abridgment as added value, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, September 2, 2009.
  • Copy at Earlham.

• The return of FRPAA, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, August 2, 2009.
  • Copy at Earlham.

• Open access for digitization projects, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, July 2, 2009.
  • A slightly revised version of this article was published in Karl Grandin (ed.), Going Digital: Evolutionary and Revolutionary Aspects of Digitization, Nobel Foundation, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, April 2011.
  • Copy of the 2009 version at Earlham.
  • Copy of the 2011 version at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. (Also see the whole book of which this article is one chapter.)

• Lessons from Maryland, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, June 2, 2009.
  • Copy in DASH.

• The open access tracking project (OATP), SPARC Open Access Newsletter, May 2, 2009.
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• A field guide to misunderstandings about open access, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, April 2, 2009.
  • Copy in DASH.

• Open Accessories, Radio Berkman, recorded February 26, 2009, released March 3, 2009. A 17:30 minute podcast interview with me by David Weinberger.

• Re-introduction of the bill to kill the NIH policy, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, March 2, 2009.
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• Open access policy options for funding agencies and universities, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, February 2, 2009.
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• Open access in 2008, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, January 2, 2009.
  • A slightly revised version of this article was published in the Journal of Electronic Publishing, Winter 2009.
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• Predictions for 2009, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, December 2, 2008.
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• Peter Suber Talks with Talis about Open Access, Talis, November 24, 2008. A 35:30 minute podcast interview with me by Paul Miller.

• An open letter to the next President of the United States, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, November 2, 2008.
  • Copy in DASH.

• Interview with Peter Suber on Open Access. A 16:40 minute audio interview with me by Ellyssa Kroski, available in several formats, recorded on October 13, 2008.

• A bill to overturn the NIH policy, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, October 2, 2008.
  • Copy in DASH.

• Cy Dillon, More Access, More Impact: Updates on the Open Access Movement from Peter Suber and Jonathan Band, Virginia Libraries, April/May/June 2008.
  • Copy in DASH.

• Thinking about prestige, quality, and open access, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, September 2, 2008.
  • Reprinted, with a few revisions, as Thoughts on prestige, quality, and open access, Logos, Volume 21, Numbers 1-2, 2010, pp. 115-128(14).
  • Copy in DASH.

• Gratis and libre open access, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, August 2, 2008.
  • Copy in DASH.

• E. Canessa and M. Zennaro (eds.), Science Dissemination using Open Access, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, July 2008. (This book knits together pieces from many sources into a single narrative. Several of the pieces are mine.)
  • Copy in DASH.

• Open access and the last-mile problem for knowledge, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, July 2, 2008.
  • Copy in DASH.

• The opening of science and scholarship, an essay for the Publius Project of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, June 4, 2008.
  • Copy in DASH.

• Open access and the self-correction of knowledge, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, June 2, 2008.
  • Copy in DASH.

• "Open access", a radio interview with me by Jesse Brown for his show, Search Engine, on Canada's CBC Radio One, May 29, 2008. Now a podcast. The interview starts at minute 13:30 and lasts about seven minutes.

• What we don't know about open access, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, May 2, 2008.
  • Copy in DASH.

• An open access mandate for the National Institutes of Health, Open Medicine, April 16, 2008. Also in PDF.
  • Copy in DASH.

• Three principles for university open access policies, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, April 2, 2008.
  • Copy in DASH.

• The open access mandate at Harvard, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, March 2, 2008.
  • Copy in DASH.

• The mandates of January, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, February 2, 2008.
  • Copy in DASH.

• Towards Open Access, The Earlhamite, Winter 2008. An interview with me by Jonathan Graham. (Not online.)

• An open access mandate for the NIH, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, January 2, 2008
  • Copy in DASH.

• Open access in 2007, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, January 2, 2008
  • A revised version of this article was published in the Journal of Electronic Publishing, Winter 2008.
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• Update on the bill mandating OA at the NIH, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, December 2, 2007.
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• Predictions for 2008, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, December 2, 2007.
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• Victory in the Senate: Update on the bill to mandate open access at the NIH, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, November 2, 2007.
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• Society publishers with open access journals (with Caroline Sutton), SPARC Open Access Newsletter, November 2, 2007.
  • Copy in DASH.

• The Basement Interviews: Peter Suber, Open and Shut? October 19, 2007. An interview with me by Richard Poynder. The link points to the introduction; here's the full-text.
  • Copy in DASH.

• Interview with Peter Suber on Open Access by Sundar Raman, for his show, Open Views, on radio KRUU FM. Taped on October 12, 2007, for later broadcast. A 60 minute podcast is available for downloading.

• Flipping a journal to open access, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, October 2, 2007.
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• Will open access undermine peer review? SPARC Open Access Newsletter, September 2, 2007.
  • An abridged version of this article was translated into Dutch by Karen van Godtsenhoven.
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• Progress toward an OA mandate at the NIH, one more time, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, August 2, 2007.
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• Problems and opportunities (blizzards and beauty), SPARC Open Access Newsletter, July 2, 2007.
  • Translated into Spanish, Problemas y oportunidades (tormentas de nieve y bellos atardeceres), SEBBM (the journal of the Sociedad Española de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular), December 2007.
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• Balancing author and publisher rights, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, June 2, 2007.
  • Translated into Turkish, Bilgi Dünyasý, 9, 1 (2008) pp. 207-224
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• Trends favoring open access, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, May 2, 2007.
  • A revised version of this article was published in a special issue of CT Watch (Vol. 3, No. 3, Fall 2007) on The Coming Revolution in Scholarly Communications & Cyberinfrastructure.
  • Copy in DASH.

• Paying for green open access, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, April 2, 2007.
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• The Ides of February in Europe: The European Commission plan for open access, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, March 2, 2007.
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• Twelve reminders about FRPAA, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, February 2, 2007.
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• Open access in 2006, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, January 2, 2007.
  • Copy in DASH.

• Creating an Intellectual Commons through Open Access, in Charlotte Hess and Elinor Ostrom (eds.), Understanding Knowledge as a Commons: From Theory to Practice, MIT Press, 2006.
  • This is a revised version of an article first presented at the Workshop on Scholarly Communication as a Commons, Bloomington, Indiana, April 1, 2004.
  • The whole 2006 book has been translated into Italian, La Conoscenza Come Bene Comune: Dalla teoria alla pratica, Bruno Mondadori, 2009
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• Predictions for 2007, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, December 2, 2006.
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• No-fee open-access journals, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, November 2, 2006.
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• Unbinding knowledge: a proposal for providing open access to past research articles, starting with the most important, in Giandomenico Sica (ed.), Open Access, Open Problems, Milan: Polimetrica, October 20, 2006, pp. 43-58.
  • This is a revised and expanded version of an article first published in SPARC Open Access Newsletter, June 2, 2004.
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• Open access and quality, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, October 2, 2006.
  • This article was reprinted in the DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology, January 2008.
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• Nine questions for hybrid journal programs, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, September 2, 2006.
  • Translated into French by Sandrine Avril and Catherine Gunet, Neuf questions pour les programmes de revues hybrides, Libre Accès à l'information scientifique & technique, September 22, 2006.
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• Una introducción al acceso abierto, in Dominique Babini and Jorge Fraga (eds.), Edición electrónica, bibliotecas virtuales y portales para las ciencias sociales en América Latina y El Caribe, Buenos Aires: CLACSO, August 2006.
  • This is a Spanish translation of my Open Access Overview (as it stood in c. Spring 2006).

• A conversation with Peter Suber about open access, a podcast interview by Jon Udell, InfoWorld, August 18, 2006.

• Ten lessons from the funding agency open access policies, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, August 2, 2006.
  • Copy in DASH.

• Open Access in the United States, a chapter in Neil Jacobs (ed.), Open Access: Key strategic, technical and economic aspects, Chandos Publishing, 2006.
  • An abridged version of this article, translated into German by Philipp Disselbeck ("Nationale außereuropäische Initiativen: Open Access in den USA"), was published in Barbara Malina (ed.), Open Access: Chancen und Herausforderungen - ein Handbuch, Deutschen UNESCO-Kommission, June 6, 2007, pp. 121-125.
  • An abridged version updated as of September 2007 appeared in the English translation of the book above, Open Access Opportunities and Challenges: A Handbook, the German UNESCO Commission, July 2008, pp. 124-127.
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• Open access mandates coming to the RCUK, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, July 2, 2006.
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• Open access mandate coming to the NIH, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, July 2, 2006.
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• Open access to electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs), SPARC Open Access Newsletter, July 2, 2006.
  • This article was reprinted in the DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology, January 2008.
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• Public access to federally funded research: The Cornyn-Lieberman and CURES bills (with Ray English), College & Research Libraries News, June 2006.
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• Good facts, bad predictions, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, June 2, 2006.
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• Elsevier offers hybrid journals, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, June 2, 2006.
  • Copy in DASH.

• Interview with Peter Suber, NeoAmericanist, Spring 2006. An interview with me by Steve Shaddock.

• Another OA mandate: The Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, May 2, 2006.
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• Germany's DFG adopts an open access policy, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, April 2, 2006.
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• Update on the NIH policy, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, March 2, 2006.
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• Three gathering storms that could cause collateral damage for open access, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, March 2, 2006.
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• Six things that researchers need to know about open access, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, February 2, 2006.
  • This article was selected as an Editor's Pick in the March 2006 issue of Informed Librarian Online.
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• Google AdSense ads for open-access journals, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, February 2, 2006.
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• The U.S. CURES Act would mandate OA, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, January 2, 2006.
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• Open Access in 2005, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, January 2, 2006.
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• Predictions for 2006, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, January 2, 2006.
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• Strengthening the NIH policy, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, December 2, 2005.
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• Can search tame the wild web? Can open access help? SPARC Open Access Newsletter, December 2, 2005.
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• The Open Content Alliance, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, November 2, 2005.
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• Interview with Cara Kaufman, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, November 2, 2005.
  • Copy in DASH.

• Open Access to Science in the Developing World (with Subbiah Arunachalam), World-Information City, October 17, 2005. (World-Information City is the print newspaper for the November 2005 meeting of the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis.)
  • Copy in DASH.

• The Wellcome Trust OA mandate takes effect, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, October 2, 2005.
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• Does Google Library violate copyright? SPARC Open Access Newsletter, October 2, 2005.
  • Copy in DASH.

• An Elsevier journal experiments with free online access, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, September 2, 2005.
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• Reflections on 9/11, four years later, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, September 2, 2005.
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• Update on first fruits of NIH policy, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, September 2, 2005.
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• First fruits of the NIH public-access policy, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, August 2, 2005.
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• The RCUK open-access policy now open for comment, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, July 2, 2005.
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• Update on publisher policies on NIH-funded authors, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, July 2, 2005.
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• Visibility beyond open access, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, July 2, 2005.
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• Publisher policies on NIH-funded authors, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, June 2, 2005.
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• What software do we need? SPARC Open Access Newsletter, June 2, 2005.
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• Open access, impact, and demand: Why some authors self archive their articles, BMJ, May 14, 2005.
  • If the BMJ edition is not accessible, here's an OA copy.
  • Copy in DASH.

• Archived postprints should identify themselves, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, May 2, 2005.
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• Trojan horse eprints, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, May 2, 2005.
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• OA is not just a technical question about how to finance journals or launch repositories, Libre Accès à l'information scientifique & technique (from INIST-CNRS), April 20, 2005. Eric Goetmann and Marie-Catherine Gunet interviewed me on the state of OA today. The interview was in English but it's also available in French.
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• Helping scholars and helping libraries, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, April 2, 2005.
  • Translated into French by Marlène Delhaye, Aider chercheurs et bibliothèques, BiblioAcid, May 2005, pp. 17-20.
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• Getting to 100%, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, April 2, 2005.
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• The final version of the NIH public-access policy, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, March 2, 2005.
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• Reflections on OA/TA coexistence, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, March 2, 2005.
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• Comments on the weakening of the NIH public-access policy, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, February 2, 2005.
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• How to facilitate Google crawling: Notes for open-access repository maintainers, January 27, 2005.
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• Open access in 2004, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, January 2, 2005.
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• Predictions for 2005, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, January 2, 2005.
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• Google's gigantic library project, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, January 2, 2005.
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• A Very Brief Introduction to Open Access, December 29, 2004. Originally written for a conference, it should print out on one page, depending on your choice of font.
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• Congress approves the NIH plan, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, December 2, 2004.
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• The UK government responds to the Gibson committee report, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, December 2, 2004.
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• Journals: please post your access policies, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, November 2, 2004.
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• Who should control access to research literature? SPARC Open Access Newsletter, November 2, 2004.
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• A busy month of action on the NIH open-access plan, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, October 2, 2004.
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• A glimpse of our history, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, October 2, 2004.
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• A haiku introduction to open access, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, October 2, 2004.
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• Public should have free access to research it funds, Tallahassee Democrat, September 21, 2004.
  • This is an op-ed for the Knight Ridder Tribune papers. It also appeared in the Jewish World Review on September 23, 2004, under the title, "Time to make publicly funded medical research public."
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• Praising Progress, Preserving Precision, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, September 2, 2004.
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• Reflections on September 11 three years later, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, September 2, 2004.
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• Open Access, a breakthrough for science that every neuroscientist should know about (with Alexei Koudinov), Society for Neuroscience Abstracts online, Program No.30.6 (September 1, 2004).
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• The open-access plan from the House Appropriations Committee, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, August 2, 2004.
  • This essay evolved into my NIH Public-Access Policy: Frequently Asked Questions.
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• The UK House of Commons report endorses open access, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, August 2, 2004.
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• Elsevier's new postprint archiving policy, continued, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, July 2, 2004.
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• Elsevier permits postprint archiving, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, June 2, 2004.
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• 'It's the authors, stupid!', SPARC Open Access Newsletter, June 2, 2004.
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  • A revised an abridged version of this article was published as The Primacy of Authors in Achieving Open Access, Nature, June 10, 2004.
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• A Primer on Open Access to Science and Scholarship, Against the Grain, 16, 3 (June 2004).
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• Providing open access to past research articles, starting with the most important, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, June 2, 2004.
  • An expanded version of this article appeared in Open Access, Open Problems from Polimetrica, October 2006. (See above.)
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• The case for OAI in the age of Google, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, May 3, 2004.
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• Two distractions, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, May 3, 2004.
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• University actions against high journal prices, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, April 2, 2004.
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• Reflections on the DC principles, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, April 2, 2004.
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• Creating an Intellectual Commons through Open Access, a preprint based on an April 1, 2004, presentation at the Workshop on Scholarly Communication as a Commons, Bloomington, Indiana.
  • A polished version of this article appeared in Charlotte Hess and Elinor Ostrom (eds.), Understanding Knowledge as a Commons: From Theory to Practice, MIT Press, 2006. (See above.)

• Objection-reply: Whether the upfront payment model corrupts peer review at open-access journals, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, March 2, 2004.
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• Top 10 priorities for the OAI community, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, March 2, 2004.
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• The scaling argument, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, March 2, 2004.
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• Predictions for 2004, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, February 2, 2004.
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• Open access in the humanities, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, February 2, 2004.

• Promoting Open Access in the Humanities, a preprint based on a January 3, 2004, presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association in San Francisco.
  • Published in Syllecta Classica, 16 (2005) 231-246.
  • Translated into Italian by Francesca Di Donato, Promuovere l'"open access" nelle scienze umane, Bollettino Telematico di Filosofia Politica, September 15, 2005.
  • Translated into Lithuanian by Giedrius Sadauskas.
  • Translated into Hungarian by Zsolt Boros.
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• Open access in 2003, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, January 2, 2004.
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  • Reprinted (slightly revised) as Open Access Builds Momentum, ARL Bimonthly Report 232, February 2004.
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• The Promise of 'Open Access' Publishing, transcript of a live, online colloquy sponsored by the Chronicle of Higher Education, January 29, 2004. Lila Guterman was the host who moderated the discussion, and I was the guest who answered questions.

• The many-copy problem and the many-copy solution, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, January 2, 2004.
  • Reprinted (slightly revised) under the same title in Open Access Now, March 15, 2004.
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• What's the ullage of your library? SPARC Open Access Newsletter, January 2, 2004.
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• Open Access to Science and Scholarship, InfoPaper, an anthology produced for the December 2003 meeting of the U.N. World Summit on the Information Society.
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• Objection-reply: Whether OA-promoting policies must 'wait until the infrastructure is ready', SPARC Open Access Newsletter, December 2, 2003.
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• Open access when authors are paid, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, December 2, 2003.
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• Advice to a student, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, December 2, 2003.
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• Should trade embargoes apply to scholarship? SPARC Open Access Newsletter, November 2, 2003.
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• Objection-reply: Do journal processing fees exclude the poor? SPARC Open Access Newsletter, November 2, 2003.
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  • Also see the shorter but related Open access: other ways, Nature, November 6, 2003. A letter to the editor.

• Not Napster for science, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, October 2, 2003.
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• The taxpayer argument for open access, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, September 4, 2003.
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• How should we define 'open access'? SPARC Open Access Newsletter, August 4, 2003.
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• Newsmaker Interview: Peter Suber, Publisher of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter, Library Journal Academic Newswire, July 24, 2003. An interview with me by Andrew Albanese.

• Martin Sabo's Public Access to Science Act, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, July 4, 2003.
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• Saving the oodlehood and shebangity of the internet, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, July 4, 2003.
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• Model Open-Access Policy for Foundation Research Grants, April 10, 2003. A hand-out for the meeting that produced the Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing. A few revisions, each dated, have been added since the first edition.
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• BOAI Discussion List Launched, D-Lib Magazine, April, 2003.
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• Bibliography of Free Online Scholarship, The Infography, February 5, 2003.
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• Removing the Barriers to Research: An Introduction to Open Access for Librarians, College & Research Libraries News, 64 (February 2003) pp. 92-94, 113.
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• Measuring FOS progress, Part 1, Free Online Scholarship Newsletter, September 15, 2002.
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• Measuring FOS progress, Part 2, Free Online Scholarship Newsletter, September 15, 2002.
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• The right not to look, Free Online Scholarship Newsletter, September 15, 2002.
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• Two areas of law, Free Online Scholarship Newsletter, September 15, 2002.
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• The Free Online Scholarship Movement: An Interview with Peter Suber, The Technology Source, September-October, 2002. An interview with me by James L. Morrison.
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• Momentum for eprint archiving, Free Online Scholarship Newsletter, August 8, 2002.
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• Interview with Ingenta CEO Mark Rowse, Free Online Scholarship Newsletter, August 8, 2002.
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• Open Access to the Scientific Journal Literature, Journal of Biology, 1, 1 (June 2002) pp. 3f.
  • Translated into Lithuanian by Giedrius Sadauskas.
  • Translated into Hungarian by Zsolt Boros.
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• More on the big koan: self-archiving, Free Online Scholarship Newsletter, May 23, 2002.
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• More on the big koan: open-access journals, Free Online Scholarship Newsletter, May 23, 2002.
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• Why FOS progress has been slow, Free Online Scholarship Newsletter, May 15, 2002.
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• Where Does The Free Online Scholarship Movement Stand Today? Cortex, 38, 2 (April 2002) pp. 261-64.
  • Reprinted under the same title in the ARL Bimonthly Report, February 2002 (which came out in April).
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• More on the problem of excessive accessibility, Free Online Scholarship Newsletter, April 15, 2002.
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• Thoughts on first and second-order scholarly judgments, Free Online Scholarship Newsletter, April 8, 2002.
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• Analogies and precedents for the FOS revolution, Free Online Scholarship Newsletter, March 22, 2002.
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• Noesis: Is it a library with built-in searching or a search engine with a built-in library? Syllabus Magazine, March 1, 2002.
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• Copyright Law and Free Online Scholarship: Interview with Peter Suber, United Press International, February 19, 2002. An interview with me by Sam Vaknin.
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• Elsevier CEO on the Public Library of Science, Free Online Scholarship Newsletter, February 6, 2002.
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• Copyleft for science? Free Online Scholarship Newsletter, February 6, 2002.
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• Thoughts on commercial use of FOS, Free Online Scholarship Newsletter, January 30, 2002.
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• More on cross-border censorship, Free Online Scholarship Newsletter, January 23, 2002.
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• Dissemination fees, access fees, and the double payment problem, Free Online Scholarship Newsletter, January 1, 2002.
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• Case study in freshman search syndrome, Free Online Scholarship Newsletter, November 26, 2001.
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• More thoughts on cross-border censorship, Free Online Scholarship Newsletter, November 16, 2001.
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• What will it profit you to gain [free online scholarship] and lose your very [connectivity]? Luke 9:25, Free Online Scholarship Newsletter, October 19, 2001.
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• Will FOS do harm? More harm than good? Free Online Scholarship Newsletter, October 12, 2001.
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• Open societies and open scholarship, Free Online Scholarship Newsletter, September 14, 2001.
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• What do you think of author fees? Free Online Scholarship Newsletter, September 6, 2001.
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• The Ellen Roche story, and Comments on the Ellen Roche Story, both in the Free Online Scholarship Newsletter, August 23, 2001.
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• Commercial Exploitation of Free Online Scholarship, Free Online Scholarship Newsletter, August 7, 2001.
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• Adopting the lowest standard of protection for freedom of speech, Free Online Scholarship Newsletter, July 3, 2001.
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• When public laws are in the public domain, and when they are not, Free Online Scholarship Newsletter, June 25, 2001.
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• The Database Paradox: Unlimited Information and the False Blessing of 'Objectivity', Library Hi Tech, 10, 4 (1992) 51-57.
  • A revised and expanded version of "How Teachers Teach, How Students Learn: Teaching in a Blizzard of Information," in Evan Farber (ed.), Teaching and Technology: The Impact of Unlimited Information Access on Classroom Teaching, Pierian Press, 1991, pp. 67-74, which is itself a revised and expanded version of "Teaching in a Blizzard of Information," Issues in Science and Technology, 5, 4 (July 1989) 29-31.
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The following are (or were) continuously updated and can't easily be placed in the chronological order above.

• History of open access. (Still updated.)

• Open Access Overview. (Still updated but rarely.)
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• Timeline of the Open Access Movement. (I've phased out this edition and moved the contents to the OAD wiki.)
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• Lists related to the Open Access Movement. (I've phased out most of these lists and moved them to the OAD wiki.)
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• What you can do to promote open access. (I've phased this out.)
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• The NIH Public-Access Policy: Frequently Asked Questions. (I've phased this out.)
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• Guide to the Open Access Movement. (I've phased this out.) (The HTML in this doc was fine the last time I touched it. But now it's screwed up. Sorry I don't have time to fix it.)
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