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Read the joint response to the implementation guidance forPlan S as issued by three organisations representing early-career and senior researchers in Europe.
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AmeliCA Vs Plan S: Same Target, Two Different Strategies to Achieve Open Access
AmeliCA is a multi-institutional community-driven initiative supported by UNESCO that arises in response to the international, regional, national and institutional contexts of Open Access, which seeks a collaborative, sustainable, protected and non-commercial solution for Open Knowledge in Latin America and the Global South.
Pharmaceutical Companies Follow Public Funders of Research in Efforts to Reform Science Publishing
Pharmaceutical Companies Follow Public Funders of Research in Efforts to Reform Science Publishing
Open Pharma, which works with pharma to drive fast and transparent medical publishing, is encouraging pharmaceutical companies to use their influence more.
Plan S Falls Short for Society Publishers - and for the Researchers They Serve
The proposal known as Plan S has the admirable aim of achieving full OA across a wide swath of journal publications. But the path currently suggested has serious drawbacks that could jeopardize nonprofit science societies.
Additional Points in My Plan S Response
Further to my other post earlier this week, I have added the additional points to my response letter to the Plan S implementation guidelines. These centre around monographs (9), REF involvement in Plan S (10), infrastructural support (11), the "time of publication" (12), clarification of the term "quality" (13), compliance of existing software with repository requirements (14), publisher deposition (15), and the ability to pursue defamation suits for wrongful attribution and reputational damage with the waiver of moral rights under CC BY 4.0 (16). If number 16 could be resolved, the open licensing landscape would be much clearer. The full letter is now available.
Launching the OLH Advocacy Network
In 2018, the OLH launched the EmpowOA programme, designed to provide scholars and librarians working in the humanities with tools, spaces and cogent arguments about open access. Now, the OLH extend the functionality for the visitors to the website
The Ascent of Open Access Report
The Ascent of Open Access analyses the Open Access landscape since the turn of the millennium. A key finding of the report is that the volume of Open Access articles has clearly been rising in recent years
What BioRxiv's First 30,000 Preprints Reveal About Biologists
More than 1 million studies are now downloaded from the site every month, mostly in neuroscience, bioinformatics and genomics.
My Draft Plan S Implementation Guidance Feedback
I write to provide feedback in an individual capacity on the Plan S implementation guidelines.
Policy Without Practice
Does it matter that there's no record of the Plan S leader publishing in a peer-reviewed journal?
European Parliament Petition on Elsevier and the Open Science Monitor - Green Tea and Velociraptors
European Parliament Petition on Elsevier and the Open Science Monitor - Green Tea and Velociraptors
Elsevier's role in the EU's Open Science Monitor is examined more closely.
Harvard Library and MIT Libraries Provide Recommendations for Plan S Implementation
Harvard Library and MIT Libraries Provide Recommendations for Plan S Implementation
Harvard Library and the MIT Libraries are in broad support of Plan S and its goals while also recomending certain adjustments to the implementation details.
Who Are You Writing For? The Role of Community Membership on Authors' Decisions to Publish in Open Access Mega-Journals
Who Are You Writing For? The Role of Community Membership on Authors' Decisions to Publish in Open Access Mega-Journals
Open Access mega-journals have in some academic disciplines become a key channel for communicating research. In others, however, they remain unknown. This article explores how authors’ perceptions of mega-journals differ across disciplines and are shaped by motivations associated with the multiple communities they function within.
Change Ahead: How Do Smaller Publishers Perceive Open Access?
Reporting results from a comprehensive survey of publishers in the German-speaking world, Christian Kaier and Karin Lackner explore the attitudes of smaller publishers towards open access, finding …
Open Access 2018: A Year of Funders and Universities Drawing Lines in the Sand
When the year began, the world's largest academic publisher, Elsevier, had increased their annual profits, with an operating profit approaching US$1.2 billion in science, technology, and medicine - a profit margin of over 36%. By year's end, a hefty chunk of the world's research community was walking away from big subscription deals with Elsevier and others.
Why We Need a Public Infrastructure for Data on Open Access
The necessity of developing a public infrastructure for open access, its benefits and the obstacles to reaching this goal.
Pay to Publish Open Access: On the DEAL-Wiley Agreement
Details of the contract between the German consortium DEAL and Wiley reveal that the transformative nature of this new big deal may come at a high cost.
Few Open Access Journals are Plan S Compliant
Much of the debate on Plan S seems to concentrate on how to make toll access journals open access, taking for granted that existing open access journals are Plan S compliant. We suspected this was not so, and set out to explore this using DOAJ's journal metadata. We conclude that an overwhelmingly large majority of open access journals are not Plan S compliant, and that it is small HSS publishers not charging APCs that are least compliant and will face major challenges with becoming compliant. Plan S need to give special considerations to smaller publishers and/or non-APC-based journals.
Elsevier's High Profit Model Makes them Anti-Open
Elsevier argues that they make their citation data available through their subscription database, Scopus, and that “[…] Elsevier cannot make such a large corpus of data, which it has added significant value to, available for free."
Groundbreaking Deal Makes Large Number of German Studies Free to Public
Groundbreaking Deal Makes Large Number of German Studies Free to Public
New contract gives researchers access to Wiley's journals and makes their papers open access
Tracking the Popularity and Outcomes of All BioRxiv Preprints
Tracking the Popularity and Outcomes of All BioRxiv Preprints
Though the popularity and practical benefits of preprints are driving policy changes at journals and funding organizations, there is little bibliometric data available to measure trends in their usage. This study collected and analyzed data on all preprints that were uploaded to bioRxiv.org in the past five years.
Editorial Mutiny at Elsevier Journal
Following in the footsteps of linguistics journal Lingua, the editorial board of the Elsevier-owned Journal of Informetrics has resigned and launched a rival journal that will be free for all to read.
Editors of Informetrics Resign at Elsevier and Start New Journal
Today the entire editorial board of Informetrics, a major publication in the field of Scientometrics and Informetrics, has unanimously resigned their position. In the future they will dedicate their time to a new full open access journal: Quantitative Science Studies.
Bold Plan to Take European Open Access Initiative Global in 2019
Robert-Jan Smits is pitching the Plan S vision to transform academic publishing to the world’s big science funding bodies.
Large Scale Publisher Survey Reveals Global Trends in Open Access Publishing
A survey of publishers with journals indexed in Directory of Open Access Journals has revealed surprising trends in the way that content is published.
The Double-bind Theory of Scholarly Publishing
Open Acess and Plan S in particular create a conflict between editorial quality and the cost of publication.
The Quest to Topple Science-Stymying Academic Paywalls
Scientific publishers charge so much that even Harvard can't afford it anymore. A new publishing infrastructure could help.
Will the World Embrace Plan S, the Radical Proposal to Mandate Open Access to Science Papers?
Will the World Embrace Plan S, the Radical Proposal to Mandate Open Access to Science Papers?
China appears to embrace Europe-led plan, but other countries are reluctant.
UC and Elsevier - Office of Scholarly Communication
The University of California is re-negotiating its systemwide licenses with some of the world's largest scholarly journal publishers, including Elsevier, to provide additional open access options for UC authors. In these negotiations, the UC is seeking a single, integrated contract with each publisher that covers both the university's subscriptions and open access publishing of UC research in their journals - what are often known as "publish and read" agreements.
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