Copyright's Broken Promise: How to Restore the Law's Ability to Promote the Progress of Science

Open access is widely supported by researchers, librarians, scholarly societies, and research funders, as well as large and small publishers. Yet despite this support-and the pandemic's demonstration of the importance of open access for scientific progress-the scholarly publishing market is failing to deliver open access quickly enough. In Copyright's Broken Promise. John Willinsky presents the case for reforming copyright law so that it supports, rather than impedes, public access to resea...