Sandy Thatcher's Writings
on Copyright and Publishing

“On Fair Use and Library Photocopying,” Scholarly Publishing 9/4 (July 1978): 313-334

“Competitive Practices in Acquiring Manuscripts,” Scholarly Publishing 11/2 (January 1980): 112-132

"Scholarly Monographs May Be the Ultimate Victims of the Upheavals in Trade Publishing," The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 10, 1990, B2-3

"Back to Basics: Reflections on the Cultural Role of the University Press in a New Age, " presented at a plenary session on Scholarship and Culture in a New Age, AAUP annual meeting, Naples, FL, June 21, 1991

Public letter to Ann Okerson, 12/3/91

"The Cutting Edge vs. the Status Quo at University Presses," The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 12, 1992, A40

“Towards the Year 2001,” Scholarly Publishing 24/1 (October 1992): 25-37

“Latin American Studies and the Crisis in Scholarly Communication,” LASA Forum 23/4 (Winter 1993): 10-14

"To Save or Not to Save: That Is the Question," presented at a panel on Preserving Electronic Writings, American Association of Law Libraries, Seattle, WA, July 11, 1994

“Why Texaco Is Important to University Presses, Against the Grain 7/1 (February 1995): 1, 14-17

"The Crisis in Scholarly Communication," The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 3, 1995 http://chronicle.com/article/The-Crisis-in-Scholarly/85578/

"Re-engineering Scholarly Communication: A Role for University Presses?" Scholarly Publishing 27/4 (July 1996): 197-208

"A Nonmarket Solution for Scholarly Publishing?" [unpublished essay, February 1996]

"Thinking Systematically about the Crisis in Scholarly Communication," presented at a panel on Impact of the Environment, AAUP/ACLS/ARL Conference on the Specialized Scholarly Monograph in Crisis, Washington, DC, September 11, 1997 http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/specscholmono/thatcher.shtml

"The Promise (and Problems) of Distance Education: A Publisher's Perspective," presented at a conference on Copyright and Distance Education: What You Don't Know Can Hurt You, SUNY Institute of Technology, Utica, NY, May 28, 1999

"The 'Value Added' in Editorial Acquisitions, Journal of Scholarly Publishing, 30/2 (January 1999): 59-74; reprinted, in an abbreviated version, in the AAUP Exchange 2/1 (Winter 2000)

"The Future of Scholarly Publishing in Comparative Politics," contribution to a symposium on "Is There a Crisis in Area Studies Publishing?" in the newsletter of the Organized Section on Comparative Politics, American Political Science Association, Summer 2000, pp. 6-10

"Fair Use: A Double-Edged Sword, Journal of Scholarly Publishing 32/1 (October 2000): 3-8  http://www.utpjournals.com/jsp/thatcher.html

review of The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Age, in Journal of Scholarly Publishing 32/1 (October 2000): 50-57

review of John B. Thompson, Books in the Digital Age: The Transformation of Academic and Higher Education Publishing in Britain and the United States (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2005), Journal of Scholarly Publishing 37/2 (January 2006) http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_scholarly_publishing/v037/37.2thatcher.html

"Fair Use in Theory and Practice: Reflection on Its History and the Google Case," abridged version, AAUP Exchange, Fall 2005; full version, Journal of Scholarly Publishing, 37/3 (April 2006): 215-229 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_scholarly_publishing/v037/37.3thatcher.html

"The Future of Scholarly Book Publishing in Political Theory," PS, January 2007

"Dissertations into Books? The Lack of Logic in the System," Against the Grain 19/2 (April 2007): 75-77

Presidential Address, AAUP annual meeting, Minneapolis, MN, June 16, 2007 http://aaupnet.org/programs/annualmeeting/2007/pres.html

"The Challenge of Open Access for University Presses," Learned Publishing 20/3 (July 2007): 165-172
http://alpsp.publisher.ingentaconnect.com/content/alpsp/lp/2007/00000020/00000003/art00002

"Collaborating to Create Cyberinfrastructure: A Critique of the ACLS Report on 'Our Cultural Commonwealth'," Against the Grain 19/4 (September 2007): 54-55

"Promoting Democracy While Suppressing Ideas," San Francisco Chronicle, September 30, 2007  http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/09/30/EDGBSAN0B.DTL

“The Challenges of Open Access for University Presses,” presented at the annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Library Association, Penn State University, October 16, 2007

"Toward 2020: Alternative Futures for Scholarly Publishing," presented in the series "2020 Vision: The Future of Scholarship and Publishing," Ohio State University, November 29, 2007 https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/handle/1811/31707

"Anachronisms or Innovators? Reflections on University Presses As Portrayed in the Ithaka Report," Against the Grain 19/5 (November 2007): 87-90

"How to Establish a Research Agenda for Scholarly Communication, Part I: A Paranoid View," Against the Grain 19/6 (December 2007/January 2008): 50-52

"How to Establish a Research Agenda for Scholarly Communication, Part II: A Sympathetic View," Against the Grain 20/1 (February 2008): 64-65

"What Is Educational Fair Use?" Against the Grain 20/2 (April 2008): 62-63

Presidential Address, AAUP annual meeting, Montreal, Canada, June 27, 2008
http://www.aaupnet.org/programs/annualmeeting/2008/thatcher.html

review of Christine L. Borgman. Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007), Journal of Scholarly Publishing 39/4 (July 2008): 435-439 http://www.muse.uq.edu.au/journals/journal_of_scholarly_publishing/v039/39.4.thatcher.html

"The Value Added by Copyediting," Against the Grain 20/4 (September 2008): 69-70

"China's Copyright Dilemma," Learned Publishing, Volume 21, Number 4, October 2008 , pp. 278-284(7)

"Publishing in Latin American Studies Today," LASA Forum 39/4 (Fall 2008): 6-8

"On the Author's Addendum," Against the Grain, June 2008, 66-71

"A Post-Mortem for Gutenberg-e: Or, Why Ross Atkinson's Dream Is Still a Dream," Against the Grain 20/5 (January 2009): 67-72

"The Google Settlement: Boon, Boondoggle, or Mixed Blessing?" Against the Grain 20/6 (February 2009): 69-72

review of Richard Posner, The Little Book of Plagiarism (New York: Pantheon Books, 2007), Journal of Scholarly Publishing 40/3 (April 2009): 318-323
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_scholarly_publishing/v040/40.3.thatcher.html

"The Hidden Digital Revolution in Scholarly Publishing: POD, SRDP, the 'Long Tail', and Open Access," Against the Grain 20/7 (April 2009): 60-63

"Is 'Functional' Use 'Transformative' Use and Hence 'Fair'? A Copyright Conundrum," Against the Grain 21/3 (June 2009): 66-69

Book review, Raym Crow, Campus-Based Publishing Partnerships: A Guide to Critical Issues (Washington, DC: SPARC, January 2009), Learned Publishing 22/4 (October 2009): 330-331

"Open Access and the Future of Scholarly Communication," Against the Grain 21/5 (November 2009): 78-81

"Google 2.0: Still a Mixed Blessing?" Against the Grain 21/6 (December 2009/January 2010): 56-59

"Georgia State and (Un)Fair Use: A Rebuttal to Kenneth Crews," Against the Grain 22/1 (March 2010): 55-58

"Why I Hate the BISAC Codes," Against the Grain 22/2 (April 2010): 70-71

"What University Presses Think about Open Access," Against the Grain 22/3 (June 2010): 56-58

"What is Open Access", The Copyright & New Media Law Newsletter, Volume 2010, Issue 3, copyrightlaws.com

Book review, Carol Fisher Saller, The Subversive Copy Editor: Advice from Chicago (Or, How to Negotiate Good Relationships with Your Writers, Your Colleagues, and Yourself) (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009), Learned Publishing 24/1 (January 2011): 75-76

"Back to the Future: Old Models for New Challenges," Against the Grain 23/1 (February 2011): 38-43

Book review, Linda Bennett, The PA Guide to Going Digital (London: The Publishers Association, 2010), Learned Publishing 24/2 (April 2011): 157-158

Book review, David L. Lange and H. Jefferson Powell. No Law: Intellectual Property in the Image of an Absolute First Amendment (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009).Journal of Scholarly Publishing 42/3  (April 2011): 289-306

Introduction and "Copyediting's Role in an Open-Access World" in special issue on The Challenges of Bibliographic Control and Scholarly Integrity in an Online World of Multiple Versions of Journal Articles, co-edited with Todd Carpenter, Against the Grain23/2 (April 2011): 1, 30, 32-33

"A Dialogue on Patron-Driven Acquisitions" (with Rick Anderson) in a special issue on PDA, ed. Xan Arch, Against the Grain 23/3 (June 2011)

"Point & Counterpoint: Is CC BY the Best Open Access License?" (with Klaus Graf) Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, 1/1 (August 2012)