Other posters called attention to the Scholar’s Copyright Addendum Engine, which "will help you generate a PDF form that you can attach to a journal publisher's copyright agreement to ensure that you retain certain rights." (This is a a project of Science Commons.)
Simon Cooke linked to his own Call for the Online Publication of Scientific Papers, in which he made an appealing singularity-based argument. ("Let's get some science done here, and use the singularity to our advantage.")
I'd been meaning to post all of this since last week, but have finally been kicked in the butt by the New York Times, which reported today that Harvard "faculty members are scheduled to vote on a measure that would permit Harvard to distribute their scholarship online, instead of signing exclusive agreements with scholarly journals that often have tiny readerships and high subscription costs."
I look forward to seeing how this plays out at Harvard, and I'm delighted that the mechanics of the journal system are being opened up for public discussion.
monochrom is an art-technology-philosophy group having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism. Our mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost in culture-archeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and entertainment. monochrom has existed in this (and almost every other) form since 1993. [more]
