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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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Bernard Rentier's insight:
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.
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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.
Bernard Rentier's insight:
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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From 1 April 2013, all academics funded by Research Councils UK (RCUK) need to be compliant with a new open access policy.
This is exactly and very clearly where the loophole is.
Go down the left lane all the way to "are APC funds available from research funder?". Yes or no.
• If no, go Green. Fine.
• If yes, go Immediate Gold.
What does it mean? Publishers interested in supporting Gold OA for profit are ready to use research money (funders money is research money) to ask for escalating prices in the "pay to say" process.
This little loophole (that can easily go unnoticed) is what will of course ensure immediate open access quite efficiently but, at the same time, it will impose restricted publication capacity.
Restricting publication capacity is fine if it is based on quality (there are way too many publications because of the "publish or perish" system) but certainly not if it is based on cost.
OA has two goals: (1) broaden diffusion and (2) reduce costs. An "author (or funder) pays" mandate when Gold is available is dangerous without a strict price control.
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In part 1 of this post, I raised questions about how academic writing might have to change in response to the open access agenda. The spirit of open access surely requires not just the availabilit...
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Last week, Mike Taylor discussed his concerns on institutional repositories as an adequate solution to the open access problem and asked Green OA advocates to address these problems. In response, N...
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Depuis plusieurs mois resurgissent en France les débats sur l’open access des revues de sciences humaines. Ils semblent cependant bien mal en...
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New scientific research must be published for free online, the vice-president of the European Commission said, in a move designed to increase the knowledge pool open to small business and lead to more innovative products.
All scientists receiving European Union funding will have to publish their results in an open-access format, Neelie Kroes, the commissioner responsible for Europe’s digital agenda, said Monday in Stockholm. Ms. Kroes also launched the global Research Data Alliance — a group committed to pooling and co-ordinating scientific data so it can be shared better.
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Creative Commons licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators. Happy Open Education Week! We are happy to announce that the School of Open community has launched its first set of courses...
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