This collection of essays, edited by Mario Biagioli & Peter Galison, explores the idea of authorship in science from a historical and philosophical perspective. Many of the authors take their lead from Michel Foucault's essay 'What is an author?'. Some of the essays, inevitably, are a little hard going. But there is an interesting discussion about the origin of copyright. And two essays in particular stand out as highly relevant to open access. Corynne McSherry (author of the prize winning Who Owns Academic Work?[Large PDF of full text]) asks if a work of scientific authorship is a commodity or a gift, and in his essay on changing frameworks of scientific authorship Mario Biagioli raises a question about multiple authorship that relates directly to who is entitled to archive a paper.
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Health Perspectives at 10/12/2003 11:49:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
