When a legally facilitated monopoly over the distribution of a certain economic good is judged to be operating against the interests of one substantial segment of the party on whose… [more]
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A new year, a new decade, and the twenty-first century is fully underway. What has crept up on me this year is a new sense of the digital age’s full… [more]
When Scholarly Publishers Reduce Author Rights in the Face of Open Access Initiatives
by John Willinsky
November 23rd, 2009
It is bound to happen. In trying to move an idea like open access (to research and scholarship) forward, you can reach a point where it seems that such efforts… [more]
The Canadian government has been holding this summer a public “copyright consultation” on proposed legislative changes to the country’s copyright act, with the consultation period, featuring town hall meetings and… [more]
The Washington Times… [more] is calling it “Iran’s Twitter Revolution”, as the largest political demonstrations since the 1979 revolution have unfolded in Iran since the highly questionable re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
The Risk and Value of Journal Proliferation in the Age of Open Access
by John Willinsky
May 20th, 2009
“India does not need any more journals, especially localized institution-based ones, if that is what you mean. We already have too many journals, most of them third rate. What we … [more]
by John Willinsky
March 18th, 2009
I wasn’t surprised to learn that the American Association of Publishers had sent a letter [PDF ] to then President-elect Obama in December opposing the National Institutes of Health Public… [more]
Open access is an initiative that seeks to find ways of making the journal literature published online freely available to readers. It is having the effect of not only taking… [more]
Now We Know What's Open: Google Scholar Identifies Open Access Versions of Research Articles
by John Willinsky
November 20th, 2008
When I first noticed this new aspect of Google Scholar, well over a month ago, I initially didn't get it. What were these new tags marking up what are already… [more]
On June 10th, my colleagues in the Stanford University School of Education listened patiently as I stood before them explaining how the Harvard Law School had passed an "open access"… [more]
[Editor's note: What follows is the convocation address delivered by Professor Willinsky on the occasion of his receiving an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the Faculty of Education at… [more]
As academics might be said to live and thrive by consideration of fair use, we need to perk up when this vital legality goes to court, and all the more… [more]
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Available online today are four new chapters of the publication Women in Canada: A Gender-based Statistical Report, which explores the socio-demographic and economic circumstances of Canadian women in general.
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The bill amends the Constitution Act, 1867 by readjusting the number of members and the representation of the provinces in the House of Commons.
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Under Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the flow of information out of Ottawa has slowed to a trickle.
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