An interesting video on Open Access and copyright

Open Access First - Copyright Reform After
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Gary Hall: The scholarly model of publishing is no longer working effectively for publishers.

Gary Hall is a Professor of Media and Performing Arts at Coventry University, UK. He is author of Digitize This Book! The Politics of New Media, or Why We Need Open Access Now (2008) and Culture in Bits (2002), and co-editor of New Cultural Studies (2006) and Experimenting: Essays With Samuel Weber (2007). His work has appeared in numerous journals, including Angelaki, Cultural Politics, Cultural Studies, and The Oxford Literary Review.

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New Columbia-Based Open Access Journal Calls For Submissions

The first open access faculty journal based at Columbia, Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements (TOHM), has issued a call for submissions for its inaugural issue. Editor-in-Chief Elan Louis, Professor of Epidemiology and Neurology at Columbia, and TOHM's editorial board are partnering with the Center for Digital Research and Scholarship to publish this peer-reviewed journal.

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Royalty collecting agencies and South Africa

the South African government commission investigating copyright royalty collection and distribution by collecting societies.

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Review of Royalty Distribution by Collecting Societies (South Africa)

The South African Minister of Trade and Industry has created a Commission chaired by a judge to review the distribution of royalties by collecting societies in South Africa.

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Communication

Open Education and Policy

Creative Commons interviews Flat World Knowledge’s Eric Frank.

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How to retain your copyright when publishing an article

An article that helps academic learn how to retain their copyright when publishing their scholarly works in journals
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Solutions for Dealing with Copyrighted Materials in an Open Access Course

The Chronicle of Higher Education Education looks at discusses familiar problem for open access champions.

Opening up schorlaly information at the University of Illions Chicago

"This paper describes and reflects on the University of Illinois at Chicago’s infrastructure for journal publishing (http://journals.uic.edu) using OJS. It describes why the Library took on this role. Two specific journal examples, First Monday and Behavior and Social Issues, are analyzed. The paper addresses the implementation and the strategies; it also considers the impact of the software on the journals. In particular, the key role played by the Library is explored, along with the importance of a supportive, collaborative partnership with the campus’ Computing Center. Finally, the place of the OJS implementation in the Library’s total information management strategy is described, along with plans for the future."
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