Richard Poynder: Freelance Journalist

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ARCHIVE OF OLDER ARTICLES AND INTERVIEWS

• A Conversation with Microsoft's Tony Hey (Open & Shut? December 2006)

• Open Access: Beyond Selfish Interests (Open & Shut? November 2006)

• Open Access: death knell for peer review? (Open & Shut? October 2006)

• Interview with Michel Bauwens Pt2, P2P: The very core of the world to come (Open & Shut? September 2006)

• Interview with Michel Bauwens Pt1, P2P: A blueprint for the future? (Open & Shut? September 2006)

• Open Access: Stage Two. An interview with PLoS ONE's Chris Surridge (Open & Shut? June 2006)

• The Basement Interviews No. 8: Harold Varmus, Nobel laureate, and co-founder of Public Library of Science (Open & Shut? June 2006)

• The Basement Interviews No. 7: Vitek Tracz, seminal open access publisher (Open and Shut? May 2006)

• Science in which no one is left behind: Interview with Subbiah Arunachalam Part II (Open and Shut? May 2006)

• Why India Needs Open Access: Interview with Professor Subbiah Arunachalam Part I (Open and Shut? May 2006)

• The Basement Interviews No. 6: Cory Doctorow, cyber activist (Open and Shut? April 2006)

• The Basement Interviews No. 5: Lawrence Lessig, leader of the Free Culture Movement (Open and Shut? April 2006)

• The Basement Interviews No. 4: Jay Rosen, New York University journalism professor on Open Source Journalism (Open and Shut? March 2006)

• The Basement Interviews No. 3: Eric Raymond, co-founder of the Open Source Initiative (Open and Shut? March 2006)

• The Basement Interviews No. 2: Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Movement (Open and Shut? March 2006)

• Where is the Open Access Foundation? (Open and Shut? March 2006)

• The Basement Interviews No. 1: Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg (Open and Shut? March 2006)

• The Basement Interviews: Introduction (Open and Shut? March 2006)

• Clear blue water: Institutional Repositories and Open Access (Open and Shut? March 2006)

• Interview with the University of California's Catherine Candee (Open and Shut? February 2006)

• Current Science Group becomes Science Navigation Group (Open and Shut? January 2006)

• Interview with Princeton University's Josiah Ober (Open and Shut? December 2005)

• Interview with Nobel Laureate Professor Richard Roberts (Open and Shut? December 2005)

• Not written in the stars (Open and Shut? December 2005)

• Struggling with Agnosia (Open and Shut? November 2005)

• Springer acquires Current Medicine Group (Open and Shut? November 2005)

• Time to take the red pill (Open and Shut? October 2005)

• China Mulls Open Access (Open and Shut? October 2005)

• Starting a new bushfire (Open and Shut? September 2005)

• Interview with Melissa Hagemann of the Open Society Institute (Open and Shut? June 2005)

• No Stranger to Controversy (Open and Shut? June 2005)

• Cream of Science (Open and Shut? May 2005)

• The role of digital rights management in Open Access (Open and Shut? April 2005)

• Interview Pt2: Dr. Alma Swan, director Key Perspectives (Open and Shut? April 2005)

• Interview Pt1: Dr. Alma Swan, director Key Perspectives (Open and Shut? April 2005)

• The Open Wars (Open and Shut?, March 2005)

• Time to Walk the Talk? (Open and Shut?, March 2005)

• What is Open Access? (Open and Shut?, March 2005)

• Freedom of Information Legislation: Tug of War (Information Today, February 2005)

• Aslib Dies, and Is Reborn (Information Today, January 2005)

• Interview: Vitek Tracz, chairman Current Science Group (Information Today, January 2005)

• U.K. Government rejects call to support Open Access (Information Today, November 2004)

• No Gain Without Pain: A short history of the Open Access movement Pt2 (Information Today, November 2004)

• Japanese version of the above article published by the National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo

• Video interview with Open Access advocate Stevan Harnad Broadband Dial-up

• Ten Years After: A short history of the Open Access movement Pt1 (Information Today, October 2004)

• Japanese version of the above article published by the National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo

• Interview: Derk Haank, CEO Springer (Information Today, September 2004)

• British politicians call on U.K. Government to support Open Access (Information Today, July 2004)

• Investigative report into the patent information market. Pt2: Who Will Knock These Heads Together? (Information Today, June 2004)

• Investigative report into the patent information market. Pt1: Vicious Circle (Information Today, May 2004)

• U.K. academics and librarians disagree over open access publishing (Information Today, May 2004)

• Open Access: The inevitable and the optimal (Information Today, April 2004)

• Interview: Natalie Ceeney, director of operations and services, the British Library (Information Today, March 2004)

• International report (Information Today, March 2004)

• Swarthmore college library: The very heart of a college (Information Today, February 2004)

• Interview: Managing Director, FIZ Karlsruhe (Information Today, February 2004)

• Fiddling while Rome burns: librarians and the US Patriot Act (Information Today, January 2004)

• International report (Information Today, January 2004)

• International report (Information Today, November 2003)

• Interview: Alan Engel, CEO, Paterra Inc. (Information Today, November 2003)

• Elephants and dung trucks: digital preservation issues (Information Today, September 2003)

• A Question of Trust: librarians and preservation issues (Information Today, August 2003)

• Interview: Bob Campbell, President of Blackwell Publishing (Information Today, September 2003)

• Reclaiming the digital commons (Information Today, June 2003)

• International report (Information Today, June 2003)

• Enclosing the digital commons (Information Today, May 2003)

• BertelsmannSpringer is sold to private equity firms (Information Today)

• International report (Information Today, April 2003)

• International report (Information Today, February 2003)

• Surviving in a harsh world: interview with Aslib’s Roger Bowes (Information Today)

• Why copyright need not be an issue (Financial Times)

• Data Protection in the library (vnunet.com)

• Problems in the STM publishing industry: interview with Mark McCabe (Information Today)

• Kluwer Academic Publishers sold to venture capitalists (Information Today)

• Reinventing MCB University Press (Information Today)

• Lessons in content management (Information World Review)

• More protection against pirates: registered designs (Financial Times)

• Ownership tussle in ivory towers (Financial Times)

• Digital asset management: e-libraries face content overload (Information World Review)

• The shooting of Dan Wagner (Information Today)

• Reasons to think before you link (Financial Times)

• Book review: Safety Net by Kathleen Sindell (Financial Times)

• DTI Booklet: Patents and the Software Industry [Doc] (Published 2001)

• Blackwell publishing in Dynasty-style dispute (Information Today)

• Vendor sponsorship: win-win, or corrosive influence (Information Today)

• Aurigin Systems acquired by Information Holdings, Inc. (Information Today)

• The future of the web (Financial Times)

• Interview: Steve Wolfson, President, MicroPatent (Information Today)

• Interview: Derk Haank, Chairman, Elsevier Science (Information Today)

• Free programs with strings attached? (Financial Times)

• The tools of the trade (Optimus) [PDF]

• George Soros gives $3 million to new open access initiative (Information Today)

• Trade secrets (Financial Times)

• Open source and the librarian (Information Today)

• Interview: Andy Gibbs, CEO PatentCafe (Information Today)

• Are Reed Elsevier and Thomson Corp. monopolists? (Information Today)

• Our wireless future (Vnunet.com)

• On the defensive about invention (Financial Times, September 2001)

• PDA or mobile phone? (Financial Times)

• Web recruitment sites (Financial Times)

• Wireless application service providers (Financial Times)

• Copyright on the web (Information Today)

• Things fall apart (Information Today)

• Monty Hyams: Father of the patent family