From: Chris Armbruster [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 29 December 2006 14:09
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Subject: Open source, open access and academic publishing
Cyberscience and the knowledge-based economy,open access and trade
publishing:
From contradiction to compatibility with nonexclusive copyright
licensing
Chris Armbruster http://ssrn.com/author=434782
Open source, open content and open access are set to fundamentally alter
the conditions of knowledge production and distribution. Open source,
open content and open access are also the most tangible result of the
shift towards eScience and digital networking. Yet, this article takes
issue with widespread misperceptions about the nature of this shift. The
focus is on knowledge distribution and scholarly publishing. It is
argued, on the one hand, that for the academy there principally is no
digital dilemma surrounding copyright and there is no contradiction
between open science and the knowledge-based economy if profits are made
from nonexclusive rights. On the other hand, pressure for the 'digital
doubling' of research articles in OA repositories is misguided and OA
publishing has no future outside biomedicine. Yet, commercial
publishers must understand that business models based on the transfer of
copyright have no future either. What is required of universities and
governments, scholars and publishers, is to clear the way for digital
innovations in knowledge distribution and scholarly publishing by
enabling the emergence of a competitive market that is based on
nonexclusive rights. This requires no change in the law but merely an
end to the praxis of copyright transfer. The best way forward is the
adoption of standard copyright licenses that reserve some rights, namely
Attribution and No Derivative Works, but otherwise will allow for the
unlimited reproduction, dissemination and use of the research article,
commercial uses included.
Keywords
Cyberscience, cyberinfrastructure, open source, scientific publishing,
guild publishing, trade publishing, peer review, open access, copyright,
knowledge-based economy, Creative Commons, Science Commons
Table of contents:
Introduction: The emergence and future of cyberscience Beyond 'impact'
versus 'shaping': Technology as sedimented human praxis and condition of
human agency Scholarly communication and knowledge distribution: The
digital elaboration of networked peer production and guild publishing
The structure of the argument: Three takes
Take One: Scholarly cyberpublishing outside of Oldenbourg's long shadow
Academic cyberinfrastructure: How does it enable digital networked peer
production?
Digital scholarly publishing and the knowledge-based economy:
Contradictory or complementary?
Take Two: Decoupling the dissemination of research articles from the
certification of knowledge claims Guild publishing as accredited
dissemination that is free to authors and readers Trade publishing as
layered certification that will and should be value-based The limited
uses of the funder- or author-pays publishing model Copyright contracts
matter: What the 'Study on the economic and technical evolution of
scientific publication markets in Europe' got wrong
Take Three: Nonexclusive copyright licenses to facilitate the emergence
of a competitive market for knowledge services Copyright as property or
license?
Bringing the university back in: The need for a policy change to
nonexclusive licensing Towards a standard science commons Attribution -
No Derivative Works license
Digital scholarly publishing websites
Bibliography
http://ssrn.com/author=434782
Chris Armbruster
Fellow of the Fondazione Antonio Ruberti (with EIROforum) Executive
Director, Research Network 1989 http://www.cee-socialscience.net/1989/
Visiting Fellow, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies European
University Institute Via delle Fontanelle 20, I - 50016 San Domenico
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