Announcing our Open Access FAQ
It’s now Open Access Week, an annual event that celebrates and promotes open access to scholarship and research. Open access […]
Open Access FAQ
by Pamela Samuelson and Molly Van Houweling, Authors Alliance Co-Founders. Last updated Oct. 20, 2014. What is “open access”? Who
UC Press Pioneers the Scholarly Monograph’s Open Access Future
By Authors Alliance co-founder Tom Leonard, University Librarian at the University of California, Berkeley. Last Spring the view out the
Authors Alliance Members Lead Push toward Open and Accessible Legal Education
Textbooks are essential instructional tools but they’re not without problems. Most familiar to students is the problem of cost: textbook
STM’s “Open Access” Licenses: Extend, Embrace, and Extinguish
Guest-blogged by Authors Alliance founding member Ariel Katz, Associate Professor of Law and Innovation Chair in Electronic Commerce at the University
Authors Alliance Joins Call for STM to Withdraw its Open Access Licenses
Authors Alliance firmly believes in the importance of open licensing to vibrant and productive scholarship. But open licensing is legally
Why Digital Humanities Researchers Support Google’s Fair Use Defense
Guest-blogged by Authors Alliance member Matthew Sag, a professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law. Authors Alliance supports Google’s
Why the Authors Alliance Amicus Brief Supports Google’s Fair Use Defense
By Authors Alliance co-founder Pamela Samuelson. It was nearly a decade ago that the Authors Guild and three of its
Authors Alliance joins in letter against copyright term extensions in TPP
Authors Alliance is joining 34 other organizations in telling the negotiators of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) not to extend copyright
Why Does the Authors Alliance Care About Orphan Works?
By Authors Alliance co-founder Pamela Samuelson. During the Authors Alliance launch at the Internet Archive, I talked about why the