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Big Ten Open Books: An Interview with Kate McCready (BTAA) and Charles Watkinson (UM)

Authors Alliance has had a longstanding interest in helping authors see their older books reinvigorated with new life by making them available online for free on an open access basis. One of the most exciting initiatives working on OA for backlist books is the Big Ten Open Books program. This post is based on a set of questions I posed to Kate McCready (Program Director for Open Publishing, Center for Library Programs at the Big Ten Academic Alliance) and Charles Watkinson (Director of University of Michigan Press and Associate University Librarian for Publishing at the University of Michigan) about what the program is and how it works.

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Open? When Site Restrictions and Clauses Undermine Open Access

Open access publishing has transformed the way research circulates. In principle, open access means that anyone, anywhere, can read and reuse scholarly work without financial, legal, or technical barriers. But in practice, many works labeled as “open” are quietly constrained by restrictions that limit how they can be used, especially by machines.

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Research, AI and Rights with OCEAN

This is the second of five webinars in our Fall Discussion Series in collaboration with OCEAN. Join us for a discussion of the impacts of the ever-changing AI legal landscape on the work of researchers and the institutions that support them. Rachael Samberg will walk us through how the latest litigation affects research activities, such as text data mining, how researchers can utilize fair use to address these issues, and other considerations, such as research integrity and liability, and privacy considerations.

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Book Talk: Enshittification

Virtual; November 21, 10am PT / 1pm ET REGISTER HERE Enshittification: it’s not just you—the internet sucks now. Here’s why,

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