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Une étape importante vient d'être franchie dans la course à l'Open Access. Le 21 août, la Commission Européenne publiait un communiqué de presse annonçant que "l'Open Access venait d'atteindre un seuil critique".
Bernard Rentier's insight:
"No, it's not about OA publishing, it's about OA. And what has reached 50% is free online accessibility at the end of 2012, to papers published in 2012. And most of that is Green (self-archived) not Gold (OA publishing). And it's not a "tipping point". And the "exponential" growth is just for Gold, which is not at 50% but at 12%! And free access 20 months after publication is not OA, it's DA (delayed/embargoed access). Many publishers have a 12-month OA embargo. That's the figure to beat. And a "tipping point" would be if OA (not DA) were at 50%, and growing exponentially. (For that, we need Global Green OA mandates, not -- not another decade waiting for Gold OA to trip up there!)"
Stevan Harnad, Aug 26, 2013 
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More than a year and a half has passed since the high-profile boycott of Elsevier journals first began. But Oxfam's Duncan Green finds that despite the Academic Spring, paywalls continue to limit t...
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Chemistry World Half of all papers from 2011 are open access Chemistry World Open access publishing is growing far faster than previously thought, according to a new report prepared for the European commission.
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On the dangers of Gold Open Access: publishers taking back the reins
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Earlier this summer, The Daily Calfornian wrote an editorial in support of the nationwide open access movement, which aims to make results of government-funded research freely available.
Bernard Rentier's insight:
I agree with the analysis entirely, except for the sentence: "allows them to pick and choose where their research goes, thereby creating a divide between those who can afford access to a private academic journal and those who cannot." This is irrelevant to Green OA and institutional mandates. The point is NOT whether you publish here or there: you remain free to publish wherever you want. But you MUST deposit your peer-reviewed manuscript in the Repository of your Institution and thereby make it readily available to the World either openly or "almost openly" through a copy request button during the "embargo" period if there is one (an embargo is a publisher-imposed delay that slows down considerably the circulation of scientific information generated by public funds).
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Un monument !
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Historians Seek a Delay in Posting Dissertations
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Why don't we all ask the basic question: "why do we, scholars, publish in the first place? To disseminate our findings and reflections (supported by public funds) or to build a career?"
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"Richard Poynder has elicited a splendid summary of OA by the person who has done more to bring about OA than anyone else on the planet: Peter Suber. Here are a few supplements that I know Peter will agree with"
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Ne pas pouvoir accéder à un article dont on a besoin est l’une des plus frustrantes expériences du quotidien d’un scientifique. Nombreux sont ceux qui cherchent une parade.
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This is the sixth Q&A in a series exploring the current state of Open Access (OA). On this occasion the questions are answered by Eloy Rodrigues, Portuguese librarian and Director of the University of Minho's Documentation ...
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Bernard Rentier's insight:
Finally, the 5th report corrects the dangerous recommendations of the Finch Committee. Stevan Harnad deserves acknowledgement for his relentless fight against the dangers of mandatory preference of gold over Green OA. Upfront paying to publish would allow for a perilous fee drift, specially if it is meant to replace the huge profit of traditional scholarly publication.
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All you wanted to know about Open Access but were afraid to ask. A masterpiece and an absolute 'must read'.
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It turns out that major resistance to Green OA comes from researchers themselves, forcing authorities to insert opt-out loopholes in institutional OA policies and making them significantly ineffixient. This is why strong mandates MUST prevail worldwide. But it takes real awareness and concern by academic authorities... It also shows that putting forward financial arguments is not the best way to convince the researchers. Improving, enlarging and accelerating readership is. The basic question: do you publish to be read and share your results or do you publish to add a line in your list of publications, preferably in a posh journal ?
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Ready to celebrate?
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Running into a publisher’s paywall is one of the biggest daily frustrations that many in research tend to encounter. Students and health advocates David Carroll and Joe McArthur decided to take these dead ends and turn them into something useful.
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"A proposed partnership between publishers and the US government in response to the OSTP memorandum".
Bernard Rentier's insight:
Alert! Danger! "Joining a CHORUS, Publishers Offer the OSTP a Proactive, Modern, and Cost-Saving Public Access Solution". In fact, they have designed a way to corrupt Green Open Access into saving their business models at the researcher's (universities', funders', taxpayers') expense. See also http://twitter.com/AmSciForum/status/358694500245323778
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