The Indian government is pushing a bold proposal that would make scholarly literature accessible for free to everyone in the country

However, as stated by Pourret [18], a majority of the journals in geochemistry also have a green colour according to the SHERPA/RoMEO grading system, indicating that preprint (and the peer-reviewed postprint version) articles submitted to these journals can be freely shared on a preprint server, without compromising authors’ abilities to publish in parallel in those journals. Moreover, Pourret et al. [17] highlighted that the majority of journals in geochemistry allow authors to share preprints of their articles (47/56; 84%).

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This could occur because, even if the institution’s users are using the content at the same or even higher rate, that usage may not be able to be attributed to the institution. Users will no longer have to pass through an authentication system to get to the content and so any off-campus, mobile device, etc. usage may end up untraced to the institution.

including COUNTER-compliant usage stats)

information privilege

Transparency agendas are being used to legislate against consortial open-access models even though it has good cost outcomes

The sites’ funders are motivated by arguablysuspect goals, but the published results—often at some editorial remove—are free andaccessible. Indeed, The Conversation‘s university, government, and foundation subsidy foropen-access is an implicit model for breaking the lockdown of Elsevier, SAGE, and the otheracademic-publisher oligopolists.

Rather than viewing predatory publishers as a disease in themselves, I suggest we should regard them instead as a symptom of malaise within the academic research establishment

This brings the total to 449 e-books available as Open Access via KU, since 2014.

it sometimes isn’t enough just to say “this will save students money so we should do it.

But if we can continue to help faculty move along the spectrum—perhaps from the multi-user eBook to an open textbook, and eventually to their students editing and re-sharing improvements to that open textbook—isn’t it worth our time and effort to pursue these projects too?

High academic journal prices justify sharing of illegal articles

Digital writing is the first kind of writing that does not reduce recorded knowledge to a rivalrous object. If we all have the right equipment, then we can all have copies of the same digital text without excluding one another, without multiplying our costs, and without depleting our resources.