Not a peep from Finch as scholarly journal firms fly off to tax havens and grow ever more profitable. Simon Lilley, head of the University of Leicester School of Management, does the sorry sums.
See also the article below by Debby Shorley “It’s time for universities to reclaim publishing rights”.
The pdf is a summary of open access strategies, published this October by the task group Open Access Priority Initiative “Digital Information” by the Alliance of German Science Organisations, edited by Johannes Fournier (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) Tina Klages (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft), Heinz Pampel (Helmholtz Gemeinschaft).
In German.
Hendrik Bunke, working for the German National Library of Economics, University of Bremen, values the open access movement in Germany as calm and comments on this rank referring to the history of the social democrats in Germany, especially the revisionism conflict. Bunke says, that they stopped being revolutionary because of their strategy to incorporate anti-party platform developments instead of sticking to their revolutionary approach.
In German.
Unless universities are bolder, open-access policies will leave control of publicly funded research in commercial publishers’ hands, says Debby Shorley, director of library services at Imperial College London:
Maybe the real benefit of the Finch report is not that it gives us a solution—it doesn’t—but that it has sparked discussion in high places. It may make those involved in publicly funded research bold enough to turn the current scholarly communications model on its head and allow our universities to regain control of their intellectual capital by disseminating the research they produce. (…) Publishing skills are publishing skills. What stops us from bringing them in-house, and using the prestige of our universities as brands?
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Help out open-access-like to create the definition of “MOOC - massive open online course” on wikipedia.
“Approximately 17% of the 1.66 million articles published during 2011 and indexed in the most comprehensive article-level index of scholarly articles (Scopus) are available OA through journal publishers, most articles immediately (12%) but some within 12 months of publication (5%).” say Mikael Laakso and Bo-Christer Björk in their recently published study Anatomy of open access publishing: a study of longitudinal development and internal structure.
Open Access Growth in economic science, PhD-Comics, SCOAP-critics, ORCID online.
Linked article in German.
We’re delighted to say that the Wellcome Trust has commissioned us to run a hack day around open science, and open science data. The project was instigated by Dr Kevin Fong, Wellcome Trust Public Engagement Fellow, who will host the event.
December 8th and 9th 2012: London, UK.
OpenAIRE provides guidance and assistance to researchers in publishing their research results in Open Access.
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany: November 21st and November 22nd 2012.
Registration open until November 16th 2012.
Rob Chalmers, Managing Director of Adelaide Research & Innovation Pty Ltd, University of Adelaide, posted a well researched text about the differences within open access: open source, open data, open innovation etc.
See also the blogpost by Cornelius Puschmann, open science researcher at HIIG Berlin, on open science and its debate.
See also blog entry by Carly Strasser, DataUp Project Manager at UC Curation Center, California DIgital Library.
A wrap up of the publication process and the new achievements.
Nick Shockey and Jonathan Eisen take us through the world of open access publishing and explain just what it’s all about.
This blogpost names the 2012 Nobel Prize winners that have published open acccess.
What do John Gurdon, Shinya Yamanaka, Brian Kobilka and Serge Haroche have in common? (…) All of these Nobel laureates have also chosen to publish their research in open access.
Peer reviewed journal articles and other research outputs resulting in whole or in part from publicly-funded research should be deposited in an Open Access repository and made publicly discoverable, accessible and re-usable as soon as possible and on an on-going basis.
The national principles are planned to effective from January 2013.
(…) we believe that adding social science, arts and humanities journals to the Open Select programme will provide important venues for scholars in these fields who wish to publish in highly-regarded journals on an Open Access basis. We will offer authors the choice to pay to make their research Open Access upon payment of an Article Publishing Charge (APC), or to publish without the APC, whereby research is available for individuals and institutions to purchase.
A guide by Berkman Harvard Open Access Project (HOAP).
The most vocal bodies or individuals to talk about this issue have generally been from either the researcher or the publisher side, which are the two groups it most affects. But what position should the library take in these discussions, and how will an increase in the volume of open access material (and a potentially exponential one) change the type and volume of work for the librarian? (…)
We posed 4 questions about how open access will affect the role of the librarian to June Hedges (University College London, UK (UCL)) and Chuck Hamaker (University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA (UNC)).
Five points recommending what the German government should do to open access to tax-funded research and science.
In German.
David Dobbs, author and writer, supports Stephen Curry’s assessment published in the Guardian (see post below) on how open access is speeding up.
For detailed information see the announcement (in German).
Die Ausschreibung richtet sich an Wissenschaftlerinnen oder Wissenschaftler, die – gegebenenfalls im Verbund mit Wissenschaftsverlagen oder vergleichbaren Dienstleistern – im Rahmen von Pilotprojekten tragfähige und nachnutzbare Geschäftsmodelle für die Publikation von Monographien im Open Access entwickeln und umsetzen.
Anträge werden bis zum 1. März 2013 entgegengenommen.
eLife, the new open-access journal for outstanding scientific advancements, has published its first four research articles.
Mike Taylor, open access advocate and research associate at the department of earth sciences, University of Bristol says that preventing publication to make profit is wrong.
Nothing is wrong with publishers making a profit. (…)If you can make money by publishing research, that’s great. The issue is not publishers who make money. The issue is corporations that go by the title “publishers”, but which in fact make money by preventing publication.
“Imagine what would happen if all journalists who write about scholarship had access to primary sources themselves,” Suber says. “Imagine if they could put links to primary sources in their publications, and imagine if readers could click through for free online to those primary sources.”
Journalist’s Resource.
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The Federal Council of Germany moves pro open access.
Entwurf eines Siebenten Gesetzes zur Änderung des Urheberrechtsgesetzes.
In German.
Mark Thorley, NERC (Natural Environment Research Council), Head of Science Information and Chair RCUK Research Outputs Network on the Research Councils UK policies concerning open access:
Our policy requires that peer reviewed research papers which result from research that is wholly or partially funded by the Research Councils must be published in journals which are compliant with Research Council policy on Open Access.(…) So what does this mean for authors? If the journal they want to publish in only offers policy compliance through a Gold route, they must use that journal’s Gold option. (…) if a journal offers neither a Green nor a Gold compliant route, it is not eligible to take RCUK funded work, and the author must use a different, compliant, journal. (…) The Research Councils are not anti-Green and support a dual approach for delivering OA. However, we do have a strong preference for Gold, and I will explain why in my next blog post.