The new Open Access (OA) policy introduced this year by Research Councils UK (RCUK) — in response to last year’s Finch Report — has been very controversial, particularly its exhortation to researchers to “prefer” Gold over Green Open Access. When it was first announced there was an outcry from UK universities over the cost implications of the new policy. In response, on 7th September last year the UK Minister for Universities and Science David Willetts made an additional £10 million available to 30 research intensive universities to help pay OA transition costs. But the controversy has continued regardless, and in January this year the House of Lords Science & Technology Committee launched an inquiry into the policy. The subsequent report roundly criticised RCUK for the way it had been implemented, and concluded that lack of clarity about the policy and the guidance offered was ‘unacceptable’. RCUK responded by making a number of “clarifications”, and extended the permissible embargo period before research papers could be made available under Green OA from 6 and 12 months, to 24 months — an extension that led many OA advocates to complain that a bad policy had been made worse.
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Elsevier, NewsCorp, Facebook, and Yahoo join ignorant attack on open access Elsevier, NewsCorp, Facebook, and Yahoo are some of the major players in… (RT @glynmoody: Elsevier, NewsCorp, Facebook, and Yahoo join ignorant attack on #openaccess - 
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Scientists’ work follows a consistent pattern. They apply for grants, perform their research, and publish the results in a journal. The process is so routine it almost seems inevitable. But what if...
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Bernard Rentier's insight:
The Finch Committee postulated that Green OA Mandates are ineffective in generating deposits in institutional repositories.
Gargouri et al. show that deposit number and rate is significantly correlated with mandate strength: the stronger the mandate, the more the deposits.
The strongest mandates generate deposit rates of 70%+ within 2 years of adoption, compared to the un-mandated deposit rate of 20%.
Green Open Access Mandates do have a major effect, and the stronger the mandate, the stronger the effect (the Liege ID/OA mandate, linked to research performance evaluation, being the strongest mandate model).
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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.
jean-claude Guédon's curator insight,
May 19, 2013 11:10 AM
Superbe ! Si seulement l'Université de Montréal en faisait autant.
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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)"
Bernard Rentier's insight:
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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The Association of American Publishers, who lobby on behalf of most for-profit and society scholarly publishers, have long opposed moves to make the scientific literature more readily available to the public. But, as open access publishing has gained traction and funders increasingly demand free access to the work they fund, the AAP’s defense of the status quo has descended to new depths. Perhaps the most egregious is a letter sent last week to the California Assembly opposing AB609, which would provide the public with access to state funded research.
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Les portails institutionnels de bibliothèques regorgent de ressources mais sont peu ergonomiques, dans la mesure où ils proposent en même temps l'accès au catalogue et aux espaces thématiques.
Lole's curator insight,
May 30, 2013 7:06 AM
Une réflexion sur la manière dont pourraient être améliorés les portails institutionnels des bibliothèques et sur la façon d'en rendre leur contenu plus pertinent afin d'en faciliter l'accès aux utilisateurs.
Lole's comment,
May 31, 2013 1:04 AM
Les portails pourraient être aussi vus en effet comme des espaces d'échange de contenus entre la bibliothèque et ses usagers.
Lambert Savigneux's comment,
May 31, 2013 1:03 PM
enthousiasmant de les voir comme cela car alors les contenus s'ouvrent et se démultiplient , allant vers une réelle aire de partage.
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As a scientist your job is to bring new knowledge into the world. Hiding it behind a journal's paywall is immoral.
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The concentration of power in the hands of a decreasing number of ever-larger publishers is a much- debated strength and weakness inherent to our ‘free market’ economy.
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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”.
Bernard Rentier's insight:
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.
jean-claude Guédon's curator insight,
May 19, 2013 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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