The Wellcome Trust has joined with the Public Library of Science and Google to launch the Accelerating Science Award Program (ASAP) to recognise the use of scientific research, published through open access, that has led ...
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Le 22 avril les Universités de Luxembourg et de Liège annonçaient la naissance de ORBilu, le nouveau serveur d’archivage des publications de l’université luxembourgeoise.
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May 19, 11:10 AM
Superbe ! Si seulement l'Université de Montréal en faisait autant. Delete the scoop?
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Open Access is not an end point. It is only the first step in the reinvention of scholarly communication.
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Ann McKechin MP writes about the business, innovation and skills committee inquiry into open access in academic publishing.
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S. Harnad: "The mandate requires all University members to deposit: the full-text electronic copies of all their peer-reviewed journal articles as well as papers from published conference proceedings in the University’s digital repository immediately upon acceptance for publication (maximum delay: 1 month)"
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The new ORBi-Lu institutional repository is now mandatory at the University of Luxembourg, based exactly on the Liege University mandate (2008) that was also adopted at the University of Minho (Portugal) in 2010.
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The move from subscription only publishing of scholarly articles to open access has been much slower than previously anticipated by many Open Access (OA) advocates.
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Highlights This issue features a comparison of open access growth including CC-BY article growth figures supplied by OASPA. In brief: for every CC-BY article addition tracked by OASPA, repositories around the world add ...
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While there has been no explicit announcement about whether or not the BRAIN initiative will be open access (and while there are obviously difficult ethical and privacy issues in this field), we hope that it will follow in the ...
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A clear demonstration on how publishing will soon become unaffordable and how researchers will be caught in the same pricing spiral that generated Open Access. If they don't boycott OA journals requiring 4-digit $ APCs, soon the OA revolution will fail. #3DigitMoratorium
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A special issue of Nature looks at the transformation taking place in scientific publishing.
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Nature: "After 350 years in the slow-moving world of print, scientific publishing has been thrust into a fast-paced online realm of cloud computing and ubiquitous sharing".
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Open Access in Mexico
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"The only barrier separating the UK and the rest of the world from Open Access (OA) to its refereed research journal article output in the online era is keystrokes. Once global OA policy has seen to it that those keystrokes are being universally and systematically executed worldwide, not only OA itself, with all its resulting benefits for research productivity and progress, but all the other desiderata sought – the end of Green OA embargoes, a transition to Gold OA publishing at a fair and sustainable price, CC-BY, text-mining, open data – will follow as a natural matter.
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"The University of California system spends nearly $40 million every year to buy access to academic journals, even though many of the articles are written, reviewed, and edited by UC professors. So you’d think the cash-strapped UC system would leap to back any effort to undermine the absurd science publishing system. You’d think. But you’d be wrong".
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The power of funding alone should not be enough to override academic freedom, argues Curt Rice, nor does open access automatically skew the world of scholarship
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"Alicia Wise, director of universal access at commercial publisher Elsevier, defended the company’s 37 per cent profit margins, attributing them to its efficiency. She said its average article fee was in line with the standard figure estimated by the Finch report on open access of around £1,750. She suggested higher education could save money by avoiding the “duplicate effort” of requiring papers to be deposited in institutional repositories even when they were freely available on publishers’ websites. She described forcing authors to self-archive papers as one administrative hassle too far”.
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Obviously, such a statement needs no further comment: it narrows down to a warm defense of pure greed and irrelevant arguments to justify outrageous pricing for Fee-based Gold OA and to interfere with institutional scientific management policy. Unacceptable.
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May 19, 11:18 AM
Elsevier at its worst and Alicia Wise demonstrating once more how unwise she is. I assume Alicia Wise would find words, however outrageous, to justify 100% profit margins. Compared to this 37% profit rate, which, for many research universities, amount to more than one extra million dollars, how much does a repository cost? Come on, Ms. Wise. Examine your own conscience and decide: are you simply a mercenary or are you blind to reality?
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The journals business has not been disrupted and does not appear likely to be disrupted for some time. Journals publishers continue to dominate the institutional market
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The CMC Forum “Publish or Perish”: On the Teacher-Scholar Balancing Act The CMC Forum In class one afternoon, a professor of mine mentioned the publishing expectations CMC professors face.
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Times Higher Education Journal editors' anonymous reviews criticised by Cope Times Higher Education Dr Hames said the COPE Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers were drawn up amid increasing scepticism “in the scholarly publishing world and beyond”...
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The Future of Academic Publishing: Ripe With New Possibilities Digital Book World Per-article costs are lower in open access journals.
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B. Rentier's comment: "Again and again : - Gold OA refers to a publication made immediately available for free and without technical barriers upon the publisher's initiative. By extension, it may apply to a journal or to a publisher. Whether APCs are requested or not is irrelevant to the definition. - Green OA refers to a publication made immediately available for free and without technical barriers upon the author's initiative on an institutional repository."
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Une mise au point sur les récents méandres de l'Open Access et les dangers de la récupération de la "voie d'or" par les puissances de l'argent. Delete the scoop?
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Speaking of Science: Un blog sur le journalisme, la communication et la médiation scientifique. :-)
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Mon interview audio lors des Journées Couperin à Paris en janvier dernier
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The explosion in open-access publishing has fuelled the rise of questionable operators.
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Beware of sollicitors... Ask yourself why you are suddenly offered a flattering proposal as a potential author or editor for a new e-journal with an impressive title. And why it is so poorly written. You are likely to be hit by one of Jeffrey Beall's "potential, possible or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers".
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