University Public Access Legal White Paper
- Opening the Door: How Faculty Authors Can Implement An Open Access Policy at Their Institutions by Simon Frankel and Shannon Nestor
Data Publication
- Recommendations for Independent Scholarly Publication of Data Sets by Jonathan Rees
Ontologies
Open Data
- Freedom to Research: Keeping Scientific Data Open, Accessible, and Interoperable by Thinh Nguyen
- Comments on the Open Database License Proposed by Open Data Commons by Thinh Nguyen
- Check Your Data Freedom: A Taxonomy to Assess Life Science Database Openness – a preprint by former Science Commons fellow Melanie Dulong du Rosnay
Open Access
- OPEN DOORS AND OPEN MINDS: What faculty authors can do to ensure open access to their work through their institution – a SPARC / Science Commons whitepaper
- Response to Question 19 – European Commission’s Green Paper on Copyright
GreenXchange
The Health Commons
- Health Commons: Therapy Development in a Networked World by John Wilbanks and Marty Tenenbaum
NIH Public Access Mandate
- Complying with the National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy: Copyright considerations and options by Michael Carroll – jointly released by SPARC, Science Commons and ARL
Technology Transfer
- The Responsibility of Research Universities to Promote Access to Essential Medicines by Ellen F.M. ‘t Hoen, LL.M.
- The Role of University Technology Transfer Operations in Assuring Access to Medicines and Vaccines in Developing Countries by Lita Nelsen
- When Science Rides the MTA
National Academies/National Research Council
- Bits of Power
- Proceedings of the Symposium on the Role of Scientific and Technical Data and Information in the Public Domain
- Proceedings of the International Symposium on Open Access and the Public Domain in Digital Data and Information for Science
- Licensing Geographic Data and Services
Scholarly Writing and Research
- Yochai Benkler
- James Boyle
- Rebecca Eisenberg
- Michael Heller
- Arti Rai
- A Contractually Reconstructed Research Commons for Scientific Data in a Highly Protectionist Intellectual Property Environment (Reichman, Uhlir)
- Duke Papers on the Public Domain
- Jerry Thursby
- Marie Thursby
On Bayh Dole
Empirical Studies
- Data-sharing and data-withholding in genetics and the life sciences: results of a national survey of technology transfer officers. (Requires subscription)
- Data withholding in academic genetics: evidence from a national survey (Requires subscription)
