The Public Domain: enclosing the commons of the mind

Engaging half hour video from James Boyle, professor of law and co-founder of the Centre for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke University and author of The Public Domain: enclosing the commons of the mind.

Is the public domain as vital to knowledge, innovation and culture as the realm of material protected by intellectual property rights? James Boyle thinks so and visits the RSA to call for a new movement to preserve it. If we continue to enclose the commons of the mind, Boyle argues, we will all be the poorer.

Delivered March 2009 at the RSA

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UCL embraces open access with institution-wide mandate

University College London has become the latest British institution to introduce a mandatory open-access repository for its scholars' work in what is a growing international trend.

A new Centre for research and development in open access at the University of Nottingham

The way that research is communicated around the world is changing rapidly, opening access for more people to more research than has been available before. This brings change, challenges and exciting opportunities for authors, investigators and others in the research process.
The SHERPA team at the University of Nottingham are pleased to announce the formation of a new research centre -- the Centre for Research Communications (CRC). This will be based at the University and will help to support and inform these changes and new ideas. The CRC will house the portfolio of open access projects, services and initiatives currently undertaken by the University.
These include the home of the SHERPA partnership; the open access services RoMEO, Juliet and OpenDOAR; the Repositories Support Project (RSP), and the University contribution to the European and international projects DRIVER, Dart-Europe and NECOBELAC. Project and service funders include JISC, the European Commission, the Wellcome Trust and SPARCEurope. The CRC will also act as a focus for new work in the area both within the University and nationally.

Open Access in Humanities and Social Sciences - survey

Introduction in German but click on the button and survey is in English:
This survey deals with open access publishing in the Humanities and Social Sciences and is specifically targeted at academics and researchers in these fields. It is part of the OAPEN project (Open Access Publishing in European Networks (www.oapen.net)). This project is conducted by a group of European academic publishers and universities and intends to develop an open access publication platform for academic books in the aforementioned disciplines. OAPEN wants to contribute to accessibility, impact and relevance of European research in those fields. We work in the interest of the academia and cannot do without the views, opinions and experiences of scholars from the Humanities and Social Sciences. The results of this survey will be part of a broader report on user preferences to be published as part of the OAPEN project.

PhysMath Central & Open Access

An introduction to the open access features of PhysMath Central, presented at the INSPIRE meeting at FermiLab in May 2009

Research of Barrington Medal winning UCD economist in UCD IR

The Council of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland under the auspices of the Barrington Trust (founded in 1836 at the bequest of John Barrington) has awarded UCD economist Dr Liam Delaney the 2009/2010 Barrington Prize in recognition of his promising new research in the economic and social sciences.

His research, some of it in full text, can be located in the UCD Institutional Repository