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title: 'Scholarly Publishing, Copyright, and the Web'
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date: '2003-07-18T09:17:13-04:00'
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permalink: /scholarly-publishing-copyright-and-the-web/
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- networks
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In a big hurry to get some non-blogging work done today, so I’m going to beg off by steering you all to [Rory](http://speedysnail.com/2003/07.html#496 "speedysnail")‘s thoughts on the manipulation of intellectual property laws by scholarly publications and the difficulties said manipulation poses to a scholar who takes his/her web-presence seriously (not to mention one who wishes to promote the web’s early *raison d’?™tre* as a means of making research freely and easily available to the scholarly community):
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> I want to see that happen, yet in my own day-to-day practice have been holding back, in case I have to publish in journals which won’t consider submissions that have already appeared online (most of which don’t publish freely to the web either). So: I can’t put my work online before print publication, when it has the highest chance of appearing topical and fresh and sparking interesting discussions with my peers; and I can’t put it online after print publication, because someone else will own the copyright and want to rent it back to my university library; so in effect, I can’t put online academic work which is all about working as an academic online in order to discuss its implications online with fellow academics.
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He’s come to some interesting and provocative conclusions — ones that I hope more fellow academics might pursue.
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