October 2, 2025Open Access

Institutional Cultures, Patents, and Open-Source Software for Open Access

Key Points

The choice of the AGPLv3 license ensures strong Copyleft protection, benefiting users and developers alike.
Institutional cultures influence the adoption of open-source software in academic publishing, enhancing collaboration.
The development of Janeway software demonstrates an innovative approach to journal publishing, promoting open access.
Patents play a critical role in shaping the landscape of software usage, particularly in academic institutions.

Abstract

As you may know, the Centre for Technology and Publishing at Birkbeck publishes and maintains a piece of open-source software for journal publishing called Janeway(https://github.com/BirkbeckCTP/janeway/). This software is licensed under the AGPLv3. We chose this license for several reasons, but the most important was that we wanted strong CopyLeft protection, including for server-side usage, on this software.

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Martin Paul Eve (Tue,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68de70f583cbc991d0a235e5 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.59348/850nz-zzb19

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