Danah Boyd joined the call for reforming how academics publish their work by calling for a boycott of non-open-access journals …and, provided a list of suggestions on what needs to be done now: Tenured Faculty and Industry Scholars: Publish only in open-access journals. Disciplinary associations: Help open-access journals gain traction. Tenure committees: Recognize alternate venues [...]

In Spring 2004, Laurie Taylor and Brendan Riley published an article in Computers and Composition on introducing the Open Source model into education to transform the nature of academic research and pedagogy. In regard to research, the authors argue that adoption of the model among authors would shift the ownership of academia’s intellectual property from [...]