Pendant qu’une partie d’Internet virait au noir mercredi, en protestation contre deux projets de loi déposés à Washington, un troisième projet de loi passait inaperçu. Les éditeurs scientifiques ont eux aussi lancé une contre-attaque.
Open access in science
Une pétition signée par plus de 6800 chercheurs dénonce les pratiques commerciales du groupe Elsevier qui publie plus de 2000 revues spécialisées. Derrière ce coup d'éclat se dissimule un mal plus profond. 
Since the talk, his book, Reinventing Discovery, has been released, and even more recently the US Congress has introduced controversial legislation to prohibit funding agencies from requiring open access. TED’s Ben Lillie called Nielsen to talk about the politics and difficulties of open science. 
Encouraged by this author rights victory, I pursued a similar strategy with permissions reform, working with colleagues to develop a set of general guidelines and argue that transformative and proportional quotation of ... Via William Banks Sutton 
Cost of research journals going up while funds available are coming down 
En septembre dernier, le Cléo organisait sa deuxième université d’été de l’édition électroniqu... 
Plus de 5,800 chercheurs du monde entier se sont engagés dans le boycott du groupe d'édition Elsevier, qui possède environ 2.500 revues scientifiques. Ils sont plusieurs milliers à avoir signé une pétition contre Elsevier, l'accusant de tarifs d'abonnements excessifs, et d'obliger les lecteurs à acheter des publications en bouquet. 
Troves of scholarly research and information - which had previously been the domain of elite universities and wealthy countries which could afford it - are now freely available to all, thanks to the Budapest Open Access Initiative. 
Le 21 janvier dernier, Timothy Gowers a jeté un pavé dans la mare, en publiant un article présentant les pratiques (jugées abusives) de l'éditeur Elsevier, et appelant à son boycott. Suite à cette prise de position forte, le site The Cost of Knowledge a vu le jour, où plus de 3000 chercheurs se sont d'ores et déjà publiquement engagés à, selon les cas, ne plus publier chez Elsevier, ne plus citer ses revues, ne plus accepter de relecture d'articles pour cet éditeur. 
The academic publisher Elsevier is being boycotted by the online HE community due to the prohibitive costs of its journals. 
SOMETIMES it takes but a single pebble to start an avalanche. On January 21st Timothy Gowers, a mathematician at Cambridge University, wrote a blog post outlining the reasons for his longstanding boycott of research journals published by Elsevier. This firm, which is based in the Netherlands, owns more than 2,000 journals, including such top-ranking titles as Cell and the Lancet. However Dr Gowers, who won the Fields medal, mathematics’s equivalent of a Nobel prize, in 1998, is not happy with it, and he hoped his post might embolden others to do something similar. 
Peer review. It is a critical part of scientific research and scientific progress. Without it, science as a field might look like Fox News Stories or postings on Jenny McCarthy's web site, where ideas people have are given gravitas regardless of how ludicrous they are. But somehow, many in the public and press, and many many scientists alas, have deep misconceptions about peer review. 
A mon grand regret, je n'ai pas pu assister à la journée sur "Open Access Gold" organisée le 19 janvier 2012 sur les publications en physique. Le partage d'expérience avec d'autres disciplines est instructif.. |
Now also the Scientist and Researchers of the world are revolting. That is remarkable since they are the peak and pride of the Middle Classes. And relevant for all of us since these (mentally) yo... 
The title captures the feeling of frustration with the often glacial pace of changes we regard as necessary and inevitable. So we try to influence the speed of change, and one time-honoured tool we take out of the box is the boycott. 
Un signe du succès d’un produit ou d’un concept est souvent que d’autres acteurs que les producteurs originaux s’en inspirent – de façon plus ou moins convaincante -, en proposant quelque chose de similaire. Et bien c’est le cas pour les revues en open access : certains éditeurs – jusque là inconnus – diffusent désormais des revues “en libre accès”, mais ne proposant aucune des garanties de sérieux que l’on est en droit d’attendre quand il s’agit de recherche scientifique. Geoffrey Beall, un bibliothécaire du Colorado, passe au crible sur son blog Scholarly Open Access les offres de ces éditeurs... 
Public access to scientific research makes all our lives better... 
Michael Eisen is an evolutionary biologist at University of California Berkeley and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He is also co-founder of the Open Access (OA) publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS). 
About 6,000 medical and science researchers have boycotted one of the world's largest academic publishers over its fees and its alleged push against open access to published research. Simple animation to explain what Linked Open Data is and why it's a good thing, both for users and for data providers. Help us put the idea into practice: http://rockethub.com/projects/3755-communicating-research-the-beethoven-way . 
2012-13 was declared the year of science by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh last year, and there is a lot of effort being made all over the country to not only intensify the quantity and quality of research but also ensure greater access for all. For instance, IIT-Madras plans to make available its research papers in all disciplines online, in the public domain. The institute already provides e-learning through online web and video courses in engineering, science and humanities streams through NPTEL. 
More than 5,700 researchers are denouncing the pricing policies of the journal publisher Elsevier in a growing furor over open access to the fruits of scientific research. 
Voilà déjà longtemps que je m'étais promis de vous en parler. La meilleure preuve de l'installation d'une pratique dans les usages se mesure souvent à l'énergie que dépensent ses adversaires à nier lesdites pratiques ou à tenter de les empêcher. La pratique, c'est celle de l'Open Access, la diffusion libre des résultats de la recherche, à tout le moins quand ils sont financés sur fonds publics. Via Collectif PAPERA 
Last week, taken aback by the revelation of Elsevier’s deep support for the Research Works Act, an anti open-access piece of US legislation, I declined to review a manuscript for the publisher and wrote about my reasons for doing so. My blogpost received an unusual amount of traffic. It seemed to have caught a wave – started elsewhere – that is sweeping through the scientific blogosphere. Mentioned in Research Fortnight, the post even drew comment from Elsevier. In a follow-up piece Benoit Bruneau explored the impact on scientific societies of a radical shift to OA models of scholarly publishing. 
Matinee de Reflexion sur le Modele economique Open Access Gold. Un enjeu majeur pour les publications en Physique ? |
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