Walt: Today is apparently Open Access Day.
If you’re not already familiar with OA, you should be.
If you’re in an academic library, you should consider how your library could be involved in OA.
If you’re a researcher or article writer, consider how OA can help and what you can do.
It’s not about “losing copyright” (and certainly not about robbing authors!). It’s not about losing peer review.
It’s about gaining access.
It’s about retaining copyright
I’ve always been amazed by those people in academia and the science world who never realised they were actually signing away the copyright to their work when they were getting them published.
Mind you some people also didn’t know that their employer actually owns the copyright and you were signing it away on their behalf..