tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:/hub_feeds/3680/feed_itemsGraham Steel's bookmarks2018-09-13T05:53:33-04:00TagTeam social RSS aggregratortag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24623212018-09-13T05:53:33-04:002018-09-13T05:53:33-04:00Scientific publishing is a rip-off. We fund the research – it should be free | George Monbiot <blockquote>
<p>Those who take on the global industry that traps research behind paywalls are heroes, not thieves</p>
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tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24621562018-09-11T13:07:29-04:002018-09-16T15:20:56-04:00Securing community-controlled infrastructure: SPARC’s plan of action <blockquote>
<p>Late last year, the news of Elsevier’s acquisition of bepress, the provider of the popular Digital Commons repository platform, sent a shockwave throughout the library community. Hundreds of institutions that use Digital Commons to support their open access repositories quite literally woke up to the news that their repository services are now owned and managed by a company that is well known for its obstruction of open access in the repository space.</p>
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tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24621572018-09-11T13:18:33-04:002018-09-11T13:18:33-04:00Book review: The Economics of Open Access – on the Future of Academic Publishing <blockquote>
<p><span>Two decades ago, the world of academic publishing was taken by a storm called ‘open access’. The movement of ‘open access’ advocates for making published content available to the public for free. No fees and no (or little) right-based restrictions to limit access (apparently, the wisdom that authors need financial incentives to create does not apply to scholars who write for pleasure or reputation alone). The aim of open access is </span><span>[was] </span><span>to democratize access to knowledge. </span><span> </span><span>In </span><a href="https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/the-economics-of-open-access"><em><strong>‘The Economics Open Access’</strong></em>,</a><span> Thomas Eger and Marc Scheufen investigate whether ‘open access’ strategies have delivered on their promises.</span></p>
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tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24621552018-09-11T12:54:46-04:002018-09-11T12:54:46-04:00European countries to end paywalls for publicly funded scientific studies tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24605762018-08-22T09:01:12-04:002018-08-22T09:01:12-04:00Arcadia Fund Supports Open Access Button to Improve Access to Research Without Subscriptionstag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24597442018-08-15T14:27:13-04:002018-08-15T14:27:13-04:00OpenAthens publisher workshop: The future of access to scholarly content.tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/23555962018-01-17T08:36:39-05:002018-07-03T14:07:14-04:00A Platform for OA Journal Discovery: Interview with DOAJ<p>"Soon after the historic 2001 Budapest Open Access Initiative, Lars Bjørnshauge embarked on a project with the help of colleagues at Lund University, where he served as director of libraries at the time, to create a vetted listing of OA journals from all over the world. Bjørnshauge completed the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) in 2002 and launched it in 2003 as a global online index of OA journals."</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/23551682018-01-16T14:26:10-05:002018-01-16T14:26:10-05:00UCL launches open access megajournal to help solve the world’s biggest challengestag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/23478862018-01-04T11:37:00-05:002018-02-02T09:12:15-05:00Germany vs Elsevier: universities win temporary journal access after refusing to pay fees<p>"The Dutch publishing giant Elsevier has granted uninterrupted access to its paywalled journals for researchers at around 200 German universities and research institutes that had refused to renew their individual subscriptions at the end of 2017."</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/23402392017-12-20T07:16:17-05:002017-12-20T07:16:17-05:00Happy One Billion, PubMed Central! – NLM Musings from the Mezzaninetag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/23372792017-12-15T06:14:08-05:002017-12-15T17:23:53-05:00A year of crushing paywalls in GIFs – openaccessbutton<p>"Since 2013, the Open Access Button has been working to build and support efforts to make free, fast, legal tools for discovering free papers in one click from a paywall and making more articles Open Access. This year, we saw that work expand, accelerate, and mature! Still more to do, so see you in 2018 to get it done, but for now enjoy some GIFs."</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/23315352017-12-06T10:37:48-05:002017-12-06T10:37:48-05:00So did it work? Considering the impact of Finch 5 years ontag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22976572017-10-18T10:56:10-04:002017-10-18T10:56:10-04:00On the Cost of Knowledge: Evaluating the Boycott against Elsevier tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22915172017-10-05T11:53:59-04:002017-10-05T17:39:26-04:00Publishers seek removal of millions of papers from ResearchGate | Times Higher Education (THE)tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22818242017-09-18T07:50:28-04:002017-09-19T09:30:34-04:00Reflections on the (UK) Open Access Repository Landscape - Research Libraries UK<p>"Earlier this year, I was given the opportunity to kick off the first meeting of the Universities UK Open Access Repositories Working Group with reflections on the UK open access repository landscape. This blog post builds on the presentation and is informed by discussions both within the group and with other colleagues from the UK, but it should not be read as a statement from the working group."</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22757272017-09-07T10:10:32-04:002017-09-13T17:17:58-04:00Open Access: Five Principles for Negotiations with Publishers - LIBER<p>"The principles are based on the experiences of LIBER libraries in the past two years, and aim to guide libraries and consortia as they shift from a reader-pays model (subscription licensing) to an author-pays model based on Article Processing Charges (APC)...."</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22743122017-09-05T09:07:49-04:002017-09-05T09:07:49-04:00100 up: an analysis of the first 100 articles published on Wellcome Open Research tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22722812017-09-01T13:07:40-04:002017-09-02T10:48:06-04:00Dr. Jessica Polka: Revolutionizing Biomedical Research Communication <p>"In the longer-term future, one could envision a system where researchers post their scientific contributions; a paper, a single figure, a method, a hypothesis; where we have the potential to make smaller contributions to the global knowledge base and get credit for those contributions in a manner that is more rapid and incremental. This would allow multiple scientists to collaborate and contribute to what we now know of as a single paper. Part of the challenge of the next 10 years is the problem of increasing information overload. Journals in the life sciences are aware that preprints have been around in physics for 25 years, and that the existence of preprints do not diminish the need for journals in that field. It is already impossible for a person to read all the relevant literature in their area, and this will only get harder. We need better tools to read and comprehend the literature, and a lot of these tools will be given by innovations in software and machine learning. My hope is that more of the literature is accessible to text and data mining, which will enhance our ability to understand the literature beyond that of a single human reader...."</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22675862017-08-24T04:08:24-04:002017-08-24T04:08:24-04:00A bold open-access push in Germany could change the future of academic publishing | Science | AAAStag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22625502017-08-15T10:04:00-04:002017-09-04T16:12:43-04:00A beginner's guide to Open Access | Wonkhe <p>"WIth both the volume of, and the demand for, research increasing, a new model was urgently needed. The ‘Open Access’ (OA) movement in research publishing has been around for several decades, although the name itself wasn’t set in stone until around 2001 and began to become codified via the Budapest (Feb 2002), Bethesda (June 2003) and Berlin (October 2003) statements."</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22605212017-08-11T11:05:18-04:002017-08-11T11:55:17-04:00Elsevier Continues To Build Its Monopoly Solution For All Aspects Of Scholarly Communication <p>"It's a shrewd acquisition by Elsevier. It continues to move the company beyond the role of a traditional publisher into one that can offer a complete solution for the academic world, with products and services handling every aspect of scholarly work. By acquiring more and more parts of this solution, Elsevier can integrate them ever-more tightly, which will encourage users of one element to adopt others. If this process of integration can be carried out successfully, it will leave Elsevier with almost total control of the sector, beyond even today's already profitable position."</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22593872017-08-09T11:23:23-04:002017-08-09T14:07:41-04:00Impact of Social Sciences – Increasingly collaborative researcher behaviour is the real threat to the resilient academic publishing sector<p>"Traditional academic publishing has been rumoured to be imperilled for decades now. Despite continued criticism over pricing and a growing open access movement, a number of recent reports point to the sector’s resilience. Francis Dodds suggests this is partly attributable to the adaptability of academic publishers but also highlights attitudes of researchers surprisingly committed to the status quo as another key factor. However, other aspects of researcher behaviour may prove more disruptive in the long term, with greater collaboration leading to the growing informal use and exchange of free material between researchers...."</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22587572017-08-08T10:56:09-04:002017-08-08T11:27:37-04:00I4OC: Initiative for Open Citations <h2>"It’s now four months since we publicly announced the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC). Since the beginning of this effort, almost half of indexed scholarly citation data have become freely accessible. We've also had some amazing initial press coverage and we continue to add new publishers and stakeholders.</h2>
<h2>Data unlocked by I4OC is already being used by a growing number of projects and platforms. OpenCitations imports citation data into a corpus which now includes more than 9 million citation links, a nearly 200% increase since the beginning of the year. Collaborative databases, such as Wikidata, are already using this data to connect and structure knowledge and to generate citation graphs. These examples provide just an early indication of the potential of open citation data and we would be delighted to hear about other efforts...."</h2>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22554092017-08-02T11:26:28-04:002017-08-02T11:37:16-04:00Elsevier Acquires bepress <p>"Today, Elsevier announces its acquisition of bepress. In a move entirely consistent with its strategy to pivot beyond content licensing to preprints, analytics, workflow, and decision-support, Elsevier is now a major if not the foremost single player in the institutional repository landscape. If successful, and there are some risks, this acquisition will position Elsevier as an increasingly dominant player in preprints, continuing its march to adopt and coopt open access...."</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22547162017-08-01T10:16:46-04:002017-12-11T12:03:17-05:00The Surge in New University Presses and Academic- Led Publishing: An Overview of a Changing Publishing Ecology in the UK <p>"This article outlines the rise and development of New University Presses and Academic-Led Presses in the UK or publishing for the UK market. Based on the Jisc research project, Changing publishing ecologies: a landscape study of new university presses and academic-led publishing, commonalities between these two types of presses are identified to better assess their future needs and requirements.</p>
<p>Based on this analysis, the article argues for the development of a publishing toolkit, for further research into the creation of a typology of presses and publishing initiatives, and for support with community building to help these initiatives grow and develop further, whilst promoting a more diverse publishing ecology...."</p>