Tag Archives: Open Access
Dramatic Growth of Open Access 3013 First Quarter: Comparisons
Highlights, comparisons and CC-BY analyzed by Heather Morrison.What Open Access Needs Today Is Mandates, Not Money
No extra money is needed for Green OA self-archiving. It just requires a clear mandate (requirement) to self-archive, by depositing the author’s final, peer-reviewed draft in the author’s institutional repository immediately upon acceptance for publication. The deposit should be made OA immediately (or after an embargo period whose allowable length should be as short as possible).
Open access: The true cost of science publishing
Tied into the varying costs of journals is the number of articles that they reject. PLoS ONE (which charges authors $1,350) publishes 70% of submitted articles, whereas Physical Review Letters (a hybrid journal that has an optional open-access charge of $2,700) publishes fewer than 35%;Nature published just 8% in 2011.Nature.
It’s time to align policy
says Alma Swan, director of Key Perspectives Ltd. and SPARC director for european advocacy in Nature’s article “How to hasten open access”.So, harmonization is happening. But the development of seamless policies among funders needs to be the focus of advocacy. It will mean less author confusion and greater compliance. Authors will begin to understand the potential of truly open research and be inspired to devise further innovative practices. Then we can expect true disruption: a very different kind of scholarly communication, catalysed by good policy.
UK pirate party on open access
And it’s hard to imagine a position more consistent with OA than that of the Pirate Party, with its focus on “the sharing of knowledge, ideas and culture” (as stated in the manifesto) and its commitment to the provision of infrastructure for this. Academic OA and the Pirate Party are a match made in heaven; it’s an arena in which much has already been achieved, but in which a truly optimal system is yet to emerge.
License restrictions: A fool’s errand
“Objections to the Creative Commons attribution licence are straw men raised by parties who want open access to be closed as possible, warns John Wilbanks.”
Nature.
Don’t Let the Dream of Open Access Journals Die
Open access is necessary for true science outreach that can really push society intellectually forward. It will be easier for everyone to access the primary literature, and it will be more difficult to talk of conspiracy theories when the data is for all to see and evaluate. Of course, there will be debates, but these will now revolve around the quality and interpretation of the evidence with more in-depth analyses.
The Atlantic.
Newsletter on open access
By Heinz Pampel, Helmoltz Gemscheinaft, resort open access. Check it out.
In German.
Universities pay thrice for open access
A vice-chancellor has argued that “crass implementation” of “the wonderful principle of open access” has led to universities “subsidising publishers’ businesses and not getting value for money from journals”.
Does open access need competition? More open access alongside franchise.
New evidence proves that competition on the passenger rail network benefits passengers and taxpayers; now is the time to deliver true competition. Video based on the Centre for Policy Studies report “Rail’s Second Chance” by Tony Lodge. Read the full report at http://CPSne.ws/14oIxoU(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
Open access and the humanities: reimagining our future
Although the open access movement has been going strong for 10 years and has had good take-up in certain scientific disciplines, such as physics, the humanities currently lack the infrastructure and funding mechanisms needed to support the transition period triggered byRCUK’s (Research Councils UK) mandate.The Guardian Higher Education Network.
Decentralized Open infrastructure: an example from The Blue Obelisk
The good news is that information infrastructure can be very cheap and – certainly at an early stage – can be radical altered (refactored) if the community wants. The key thing is COMMUNICATION. As long as we know what other people are doing and saying many of the difficulties are solved.Blog entry by Peter Murray-Rust, open access & open knowledge advocate, works in Molecular Informatics, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.
The Canadian war on public science, basic research and the free and open exchange of scientific information
The Minister of State for Science and Technology effectively voted against:
- the free and open exchange of scientific information
- evidence-based policy-making
- federal government scientists must be enabled to discuss openly their findings
- federal government should maintain support for its basic scientific capacity across Canada
- the world-renowned Experimental Lakes Area Research Facility
Open access debate in Australia
Journal editors take note – you have the power.
The Open Access Interviews: Johannes Fournier, speaking for the Global Research Council
Johannes Fournier, programme director at DFG, German Research Foundation in an interview with Richard Poynder, open access chronicler.Publishers Have A New Strategy For Neutralizing Open Access — And It’s Working
This seems to be the publishers’ new strategy against open access: not to fight it directly, but to use constant lobbying to inflict a kind of death by a thousand cuts — slicing off a provision here, lengthening an embargo there, pushing implementation further and further into the future — until the final result is almost no different from the status quo.Blog entry on TechDirt.
Open access for the people
From April 1st this year anyone in receipt of public funding from one of the UK research councils will be required to publish their findings by an open access route. The new policy is causing an almighty row, with researchers complaining about the cost, humanities scholars railing against an agenda set by scientists, publishers and learned societies fretting about lost of income and the House of Lords criticising the haste with which the new rules have been brought into play.Stephen Curry for The Guardian.
7 Ways Librarians Can Participate in Open Access/Source/Education Communities
A guideline published on OpenEducationDatabase.Impact Factors — Letter to RCUK
Following my post of last week asking RCUK to include in the guidelines on their new open access policy a statement disavowing the use of impact factors in assessing funding applications, I wanted to thank everyone who registered their support. I also wanted to provide the text of the letter that was sent yesterday to Alexandra Saxon, RCUK’s Head of Communications. All the signatories are listed below.Stephen Curry’s Blog.
Open Access — Idealism and Realism Remain Difficult to Reconcile, Survey Says
An opinion on the survey by Taylor & Francis (see earlier post).Open Access: Economic Analysis of Alternative Options for the UK Science and Research System
The Department for Business Innovation and Skills published this analysis on open access.This analysis of options was undertaken initially with BIS to inform the Government response to the recommendations of the Finch Group.
Open-Access for the 3rd World
Scientists should submit their work to open-access repositories to support research in parts of the world that don’t have access to the vast libraries of pay-wall-constrained literature.Blog entry on The Scientist.
I LOVE OPEN ACCESS
French - English website to promote open access.
This article published in LeMonde has been translated also:
This text was first published on 15 March 2013 in Le Monde by sixty professionals belonging to the community of higher education and research: university presidents, directors of several Maisons des Sciences de l’Homme, publishers, representatives of journals, representatives of university libraries, professors and researchers. The call is open to everyone: engineers, scholars, students, information professionals, librarians, journalists, etc.