Authors Alliance and SPARC Supporting Legal Pathways to Open Access for Scholarly Works
Authors Alliance and SPARC are excited to announce a new collaboration to address critical legal issues surrounding open access to […]
Open Access and University IP Policies in the United States
Perhaps the most intuitive statement in the whole of the U.S. Copyright Act is this: “Copyright in a work protected
Read your open access publishing agreements, or: how you might accidentally give Elsevier or Wiley the exclusive right to profit from your OA article
Reading publishing agreements–even for short academic articles–can be extremely time consuming. For many academic publishers, you’ll find an array of
Athena Unbound and Untangling the Law of Open Access
A few months ago, Authors Alliance and the Internet Archive co-hosted an engaging book talk featuring historian Peter Baldwin and
Q&A with Peter Kaufman: Open Access Publishing and Access to Knowledge
In today’s post, as a part of our series of open access success stories that spotlight noteworthy openly accessible books
Recap: PIJIP Webinars on Evaluating, Authoring, and Adapting Open Educational Resources
Authors Alliance thanks Diana Buck, Copyright Intern, for this post. When universities across the United States moved to online learning
Q&A With Cynthia Willett and Julie Willett: Open Access and Engaging in Global Conversations
As a part of our series of open access success stories that spotlight noteworthy openly accessible books and their authors,
Appeals Court Issues Important Opinion For Open Access Community And Licensees Of Creative Commons’ Non-Commercial Licenses
Authors Alliance is grateful to Elizabeth H. Yandell, associate at Latham & Watkins, for contributing this post about a recent
Authors Alliance Supports Immediate Access to Federally Funded Research
Media sources report that the Trump Administration is considering a policy to make the results of federally funded research immediately
Rights Reversion: Opening Classic Works to New Global Audiences
We are grateful to Anita Walz, Assistant Director of Open Education and Scholarly Communication Librarian at Virginia Tech, for sharing