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At Huffington Post: Criticism of UI's 'open access' publishing rights policy
Written by 2001 Writers' Workshop graduate Megan Pillow:
At first blush, the policy seems harmless. After all, what's wrong with uploading this kind of academic work to the Internet and sharing it with anyone who cares to see it? The free flow of information can be a wonderful thing. Share and share alike, right?But read it a little more closely, and the masquerade fails.
But read it a little more closely, and the masquerade fails. Kembrew McLeod, a journalist, artist, and associate professor of communication studies at Iowa who has been following this issue closely, said the new policy "can be construed as a license that hands over student thesis publishing rights to the University of Iowa -- unless an embargo form is signed, and that embargo only lasts two years." ...
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