[cc-community] Open Access to academic books
Gavin Baker
gavin at gavinbaker.com
Wed Nov 14 18:13:46 EST 2007
On Wed, November 14, 2007 10:04 am, Samir Chopra wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> I've been lurking for a while on this list, reading the discussions with
> great interest. I'm the co-author (with Scott Dexter) of a recently
> released book on free software (titled Decoding Liberation: The Promise of
> Free and Open Source Software - you can check out the info page at
> http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~bcfoss/DL). The book was published by
> Routledge (this past August) in their New Media and Cyberculture Series.
> We tried to get more liberal licensing terms for the book (some sort of
> Creative Commons License) but failed. The book is out, its expensive, and
> on its release, an interesting discussion about our decision to release it
> under a traditional copyright license (especially given the subject matter
> of the book) took place on a few blogs. Rather than try and recapitulate
> that discussion here, I'd like to point you to the page linked above where
> you will find links to the blogs where this discussion took place. I'd be
> very interested in your feedback (and if anyone is interested in a copy of
> the book, please write to me - I can mail you a PDF). We feel the issues
> raised in those discussions should be of interest to anyone publishing in
> the academic world. I also entered into a longish conversation with Gavin
> Baker on this topic, and if he agrees, I can post excerpts from our email
> conversation on this list as well.
OK, as long it's nothing embarrassing :)
I've been working since that time on a piece about open access to academic
monographs. Eventually, I'll get around to publishing it somewhere, and
when I do I'll post it here.
> best,
> Samir Chopra
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> Science
> Phone: +1 718 951 4139 Brooklyn College of CUNY, Brooklyn, NY
> Alternate Email Address: schopra at brooklyn.cuny.edu
> Homepage: www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~schopra
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