Richard Poynder

Freelance Journalist

 

Richard Poynder writes about information technology, telecommunications, and intellectual property. In particular, he specialises in online services; electronic information systems; the Internet; Open Access; e-Science and e-Research; cyberinfrastructure; digital rights management; Creative Commons; Open Source Software; Free Software; copyright; patents, and patent information.

Richard has contributed to a wide range of specialist, national and international publications, and edited and co-authored two books: Hidden Value and Caught in a Web, Intellectual Property in Cyberspace. He has also contributed to radio programmes.

  

RECENT ARTICLES AND INTERVIEWS

 

 

·         Michael Geist on The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (Open & Shut? March 2010)

 

·         Open Access linked to Alabama shooting (Open & Shut? February 2010)

 

·         The OA Interviews: Sciyo's Aleksandar Lazinica (Open & Shut? February 2010)

 

·         Germany plans enquiry into the digital society (Open & Shut? February 2010)      

 

·         Interview with OA advocate Stevan Harnad (Information Today, February 2010)

 

·         Open Access in 2009: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Open & Shut? December 2009)

 

·         Open Access: Who pays? How much? (Open & Shut? November 2009)

 

·         Profile of veteran German OA advocate Eberhard Hilf (Open & Shut? October 2009)

 

·         Interview with BioMed Central Publisher Matthew Cockerill (Open & Shut? October 2009)

 

·         Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity: Mistaking intent for action? (Open & Shut? September 2009)

 

·         Open Humanities Press to publish OA books (Open & Shut? September 2009)

 

·         E-Biomed 2.0? (Open & Shut? August 2009)

 

·         Open Access given Papal Blessing? (Open & Shut July 2009)

 

·         Open Access: Rethinking Harvard (Open & Shut July 2009)

 

·         Open Access and the A-Bomb (Open & Shut? June 2009)

 

·         The world's first Open Access mandate? (Open & Shut? June 2009)

 

·         The OA Interviews: Hélène Bosc, convenor for the EuroScience Working Group on Science Publishing (Open & Shut? March 2009)

 

·         Open Access: Whom would you back? (Open & Shut? March 2009)

 

·         The OA Interviews: Tom Hill, Publisher, Libertas Academica (Open & Shut? January 2009)

 

·         Open Access: The question of quality (Open & Shut? November 2008)

 

·         The OA Interviews: Tim Hill, Publisher, Dove Medical Press

 

·         The OA Interviews: Annette Holtkamp, Information Professional, DESY, (Open & Shut? September 2008)

 

·         In search of the big bang: Interview with Professor Rolf-Dieter Heuer, CERN Director General Elect (Computer Weekly, August 2008)

 

·         The OA Interviews: Leslie Chan, Associate Director, Bioline International (Open & Shut? June 2008)

 

·         Open Access: Doing the numbers (Open & Shut? June 2008)

 

·         The OA Interviews: Matthew Honan, Editorial Director, Bentham Science Publishers (Open & Shut? April 2008)

 

·         The OA Interviews: Bill Mortimer, Research Support Librarian, Open University (Open & Shut? April 2008)

 

·         Profile of the Open University's Institutional Repository (Computer Weekly, 10th March, 2008)

 

·         The OA Interviews: John Wilbanks, VP Science Commons (Open & Shut? February 2008)

 

·         Profile of Open Data advocate Peter Murray-Rust (Computer Weekly, 5th February 2008)

 

·         The OA Interviews: Professor Carlos Brebbia, director of WIT Press (Open & Shut? February 2008)

 

·         The OA Interviews: Peter Murray-Rust on Open Data (Open & Shut? January 2008)

 

·         The OA Interviews: Alma Swan, Open Access advocate (Open & Shut? January 2008)

 

·         Interview with Wolfgang Pilch, Principal Director for Patent Information, European Patent Office (Open & Shut? October 2007)

 

·         The Basement Interviews: Peter Suber, de facto leader of the Open Access Movement (Open & Shut? October 2007)

 

·         Interview with Peter Vanderheyden, VP Global Intellectual Property, LexisNexis (Open & Shut? October 2007)

 

·         The OA Interviews: Stevan Harnad, OA advocate and archivangelist (Open & Shut? July 2007)

 

·         Interview with Professor M S Swaminathan, Founder & Chairman of India's MSSRF (Open & Shut? May 2007)

 

·         The OA Interviews: Leo Waaijers, manager of SURFshare in the Netherlands (Open & Shut? April 2007)

 

·         Open Access: The War in Europe (Open & Shut? March 2007)

 

·         The Basement Interviews: Cory Doctorow extract in German (De:Bug, March 2007)

 

·         Interview with Philip Esler, AHRC CEO (Open & Shut? March 2007)

 

·         Open Radio (Open & Shut? January 2007)

BLOG

·         Open and Shut?

EARLIER WORK

·         Archive

THE BASEMENT INTERVIEWS

·         Index of Interviews

THE OPEN ACCESS INTERVIEWS

·         Index of Interviews

OPEN ACCESS ESSAYS

·         Index of Essays

BOOKS 

·         Caught in a Web  

 

·         Hidden Value

  

RADIO

 

·         Transcript of Australian Broadcasting Corporation programme: Knowledge Indignation                     

 

·         Open Views  | KRUU-FM (19th December 2006)

Above interview as MP3 file        

  

PRESENTATIONS

 

·         Online Information 2002 Conference: Managing Digital Assets   (PowerPoint)

 

·         The Open Access Movement as Five-Act Play (PowerPoint)

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