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“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
"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
“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/che-data/articles.dir/articles-41.dir/issue-25.dir/25b00101.htm
"Re-engineering Scholarly Communication: A Role for University Presses?" Scholarly Publishing 27/4 (July 1996): 197-208
"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
"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
"On the Author's Addendum," Journal of Scholarly Publishing 40/1 (October 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