Open access is widely supported by researchers, librarians, scholarly societies, and research funders, as well as large and small publishers. Yet despite this support-and the pandemic's demonstration of the importance of open access for scientific progress-the scholarly publishing market is failing to deliver open access quickly enough. In Copyright's Broken Promise. John Willinsky presents the case for reforming copyright law so that it supports, rather than impedes, public access to research and scholarship. He draws on the legal strategy of statutory licensing to set out the terms and structures by which the Copyright Act could ensure that published are fairly compensated for providing immediate open access.
Open access is widely supported by researchers, librarians, scholarly societies, and research funders, as well as large and small publishers. Yet despite this support-and the pandemic's demonstration of the importance of open access for scientific progress-the scholarly publishing market is failing to deliver open access quickly enough. In Copyright's Broken Promise. John Willinsky presents the case for reforming copyright law so that it supports, rather than impedes, public access to research and scholarship. He draws on the legal strategy of statutory licensing to set out the terms and structures by which the Copyright Act could ensure that published are fairly compensated for providing immediate open access.
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