Richard Poynder

Freelance Journalist

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Richard Poynder writes about information technology, telecommunications, and intellectual property. In particular, he specialises in online services; electronic information systems; the Internet; Open Access; e-Science and e-Research; cyberinfrastructure; digital rights management; Creative Commons; Open Source Software; Free Software; copyright; patents, and patent information.

Richard has contributed to a wide range of specialist, national and international publications, and edited and co-authored two books: Hidden Value and Caught in a Web, Intellectual Property in Cyberspace. He has also contributed to radio programmes.

RECENT ARTICLES AND INTERVIEWS

• Open Access: Counting Gold (Open & Shut, January 2010)

• Open Access in 2009: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Open & Shut? December 2009)

• Open Access: Who pays? How much? (Open & Shut? November 2009)

• Profile of veteran German OA advocate Eberhard Hilf (Open & Shut? October 2009)

• Interview with BioMed Central Publisher Matthew Cockerill (Open & Shut? October 2009)

• Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity: Mistaking intent for action? (Open & Shut? September 2009)

• Open Humanities Press to publish OA books (Open & Shut? September 2009)

• E-Biomed 2.0? (Open & Shut? August 2009)

• Open Access given Papal Blessing? (Open & Shut July 2009)

• Open Access: Rethinking Harvard (Open & Shut July 2009)

• Open Access and the A-Bomb (Open & Shut? June 2009)

• The world's first Open Access mandate? (Open & Shut? June 2009)

• The OA Interviews: Hélène Bosc, convenor for the EuroScience Working Group on Science Publishing (Open & Shut? March 2009)

• Open Access: Whom would you back? (Open & Shut? March 2009)

• The OA Interviews: Tom Hill, Publisher, Libertas Academica (Open & Shut? January 2009)

• Open Access: The question of quality (Open & Shut? November 2008)

• The OA Interviews: Tim Hill, Publisher, Dove Medical Press (Open & Shut?, November 2008)

• The OA Interviews: Annette Holtkamp, Information Professional, DESY (Open & Shut? September 2008)

• In search of the big bang: Interview with Professor Rolf-Dieter Heuer, CERN Director General Elect (Computer Weekly, August 2008)

• The OA Interviews: Leslie Chan, Associate Director, Bioline International (Open & Shut? June 2008)

• Open Access: Doing the numbers (Open & Shut? June 2008)

• The OA Interviews: Matthew Honan, Editorial Director, Bentham Science Publishers (Open & Shut? April 2008)

• The OA Interviews: Bill Mortimer, Research Support Librarian, Open University (Open & Shut? April 2008)

• Profile of the Open University's Institutional Repository (Computer Weekly, 10^th March, 2008)

• The OA Interviews: John Wilbanks, VP Science Commons (Open & Shut? February 2008)

• Profile of Open Data advocate Peter Murray-Rust (Computer Weekly, 5^th February 2008)

• The OA Interviews: Professor Carlos Brebbia, director of WIT Press (Open & Shut? February 2008)

• The OA Interviews: Peter Murray-Rust on Open Data (Open & Shut? January 2008)

• The OA Interviews: Alma Swan, Open Access advocate (Open & Shut? January 2008)

• Interview with Wolfgang Pilch, Principal Director for Patent Information, European Patent Office (Open & Shut? October 2007)

• The Basement Interviews: Peter Suber, de facto leader of the Open Access Movement (Open & Shut? October 2007)

• Interview with Peter Vanderheyden, VP Global Intellectual Property, LexisNexis (Open & Shut? October 2007)

• The OA Interviews: Stevan Harnad, OA advocate and archivangelist (Open & Shut? July 2007)

• Interview with Professor M S Swaminathan, Founder & Chairman of India's MSSRF (Open & Shut? May 2007)

• The OA Interviews: Leo Waaijers, manager of SURFshare in the Netherlands (Open & Shut? April 2007)

• Open Access: The War in Europe (Open & Shut? March 2007)

• The Basement Interviews: Cory Doctorow extract in German (De:Bug, March 2007)

• Interview with Philip Esler, AHRC CEO (Open & Shut? March 2007)

• Open Radio (Open & Shut? January 2007)

BLOG

· Open and Shut?

EARLIER WORK

· Archive

THE BASEMENT INTERVIEWS

· Index of Interviews

THE OPEN ACCESS INTERVIEWS

· Index of Interviews

OPEN ACCESS ESSAYS

· Index of Essays

BOOKS 

• Caught in a Web

• Hidden Value

RADIO

• Transcript of Australian Broadcasting Corporation programme: Knowledge Indignation

• Open Views | KRUU-FM (19^th December 2006)

Above interview as MP3 file

PRESENTATIONS

• Online Information 2002 Conference: Managing Digital Assets (PowerPoint)

• The Open Access Movement as Five-Act Play (PowerPoint)

E-MAIL

• richardpoynder1@o2.co.uk