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April 26, 2013

Velleman publishes open access book

You can get the book for free here.

Hat tip: Ethics Etc. for the idea of publicizing this more widely.

 

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This is awesome.

Posted by: Douglas W. Portmore | April 27, 2013 at 09:39 AM

I second Douglas. Thanks for passing this info on.

Posted by: Aaron Darrisaw | April 28, 2013 at 03:45 PM

All of the options on the link require payment. The electronic versions aren't very expensive, but they're not free. So I don't see how this qualifies as open access.

Posted by: Dan Hicks | April 29, 2013 at 08:11 AM

Note that you can read the entire thing online for free, but to download it costs money.

Posted by: David Sobel | April 29, 2013 at 10:06 AM

David: where can you read the entire thing online for free?

I like the fact that the e-version of the book is so cheap. That is as it should be.

Posted by: Bruno Verbeek | April 29, 2013 at 01:18 PM

Bruno,

Click on the link in the post. Above the Description, Contents, Author, and Comment tab, there is box with a book icon and the words "Read Full Text Online." Click on that and you can read the entire book for free online.

Posted by: Douglas W. Portmore | April 29, 2013 at 01:22 PM

On the linked page there is a button labeled "Read Full Text Online". It has an icon of an open book on it. That button takes you to, well, it takes you where you'd expect. For free.

Or just use this:

http://www.openbookpublishers.com/reader/181

Posted by: Jamie Dreier | April 29, 2013 at 01:25 PM

Thanks to David Velleman. It's the future. I'd like to see more established philosophers doing this - those who don't need the kudos of publishing with OUP etc, and whose books will be reviewed and sought out regardless...

Posted by: Dan Dennis | April 29, 2013 at 11:34 PM

I appreciate the fact that the full text is available to read online. But that's insufficient for open access.

Both the Berlin Declaration and Bethesda Statement specify that open access grants users "a free ... right of access to, and a license to copy" the work in question.

http://oa.mpg.de/lang/en-uk/berlin-prozess/berliner-erklarung/

http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/bethesda.htm

In addition, the Budapest Open Access Initiative explicitly includes "download" in its definition of open access.

http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/openaccess/read

Posted by: Dan Hicks | April 30, 2013 at 06:29 PM

Thanks for the useful information, Dan. Even if Velleman's book does not count as open access, I take it we agree it is a positive development.

Posted by: David Sobel | May 01, 2013 at 12:40 PM

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