Impact of Social Sciences – Impact Round-Up 26th April: The cost of journal subscriptions, writing for impact, and the Journal Openness Index.

"Open access advocate and Cambridge mathematician Tim Gowers has been pulling together information on Elsevier journal subscription costs in an effort to provide a bigger picture of what the current scholarly communication system is costing university libraries (previously withheld information due to confidentiality clauses in contracts). His overview report on what has been obtained through Freedom of Information requests sent to universities around the world is definitely worth a read ... Michelle Brook at the Open Knowledge Foundation also provides some context for where Gowers’s obtained information fits and what more information is still needed to fully understand the situation facing universities ... In Librarian, Heal Thyself: A Scholarly Communication Analysis of LIS Journals, Micah Vandegrift and Chealsye Bowley propose a new metric to rank journals, the J.O.I. Factor (Journal Openness Index) ... Writing for impact: how to craft papers that will be cited by Rob Kitchin at The Programmable City ... A Public Library of the Humanities? An Interview with Martin Paul Eve by Adeline Koh atProfHacker ..."