‘No free labor’ – we agree. | Unlocking Research

ab1630's bookmarks 2018-06-27

Summary:

"Last week members of the University of California* released a Call to Action to ‘Champion change in journal negotiations’ which references the April 2018 Declaration of Rights and Principles to Transform Scholarly Communication.  This states as one of the 18 principles: “No free labor. Publishers shall provide our Institution with data on peer review and editorial contributions by our authors in support of journals, and such contributions shall be taken into account when determining the cost of our subscriptions or OA fees for our authors.” Well, this is interesting. At Cambridge we have been trying to look at this specific issue since late last year. The project Our goal was to have a better understanding of the interaction between publisher and researcher. The (not very imaginatively named) Data Gathering Project is a project to support the decision making of the Journal Coordination Scheme in relation to subscription to, and use of, academic journal literature across Cambridge. What we have initially found is that the data is remarkably difficult to put together. Cambridge University does not use bibliometrics as a means of measuring our researchers, so we do not subscribe to SciVal, but we have access to Scopus. But Scopus does not pick up Arts and Humanities publications particularly well, so it will always be a subset of the whole...."

Link:

https://unlockingresearch-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=2087

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oa.new oa.labor oa.uk oa.u.cambridge oa.declarations oa.usa oa.u.california oa.peer_review oa.authors oa.gold oa.altmetrics oa.data oa.metadata oa.metrics oa.journals

Date tagged:

06/27/2018, 14:11

Date published:

06/27/2018, 10:33