I doubt this is the seminal instance, but I just heard an interesting On the Media podcast which talked to Cal Tech economics professor R. Preston McAfee about his textbook Introduction to Economic Analysis (ISBN 160049000X) which he has released using a creative commons license. This touches tangentially on a recent post I had on self-published fiction, but it makes me wonder about academic work. I do believe that this is the way to go (now and in the future) but there has to be a method somehow for this type of scholarly activity to be recognized in the tenure process.
On a side note, the ISBN is not represented in OCLC’s Worldcat under that number. The only way I could find it is via OCLC number 62280521. There are all kinds of problems involved in self-publishing.
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