Items tagged by greboun in Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) https://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/user/greboun TagTeam social RSS aggregrator DOAJ is looking for a new Managing Director, a visionary, who will take DOAJ to the next level on its exciting journey. You will play a key role in ensuring that the service continues to grow and develop. You will be vital in ensuring the longevity of the key activity—the journal review and indexing service—and that its future is secured and can develop in a way that the community needs it to. DOAJ is a small organisation with lots to do so you will also be required to do the day-to-day work. Working with the DOAJ Team, the Advisory Board and the Council, you are the lynchpin moving the organization forward. Mon, 14 Jun 2021 08:33:00 -0400 https://blog.doaj.org/2021/06/14/3200/ oa.doaj oa.publishing oa.new oa.gold oa.publishing oa.new oa.journals oa.jobs oa.infrastructure oa.gold oa.doaj The ELPUB 2019 presentations are now available on the Elpub website! https://elpub2019.hypotheses.org/slides Thu, 27 Jun 2019 04:34:00 -0400 https://elpub2019.hypotheses.org/slides oa.new elpub2019 oa.books oa.slides oa.events "Today we are announcing the formation of Invest In Open Infrastructure (IOI) a global initiative to increase the availability and sustainability of open knowledge infrastructure. The needs of today’s diverse scholarly communities are not being met by the existing largely uncoordinated scholarly infrastructure, which is dominated by vendor products that take ownership of the scholarly process and data without appropriate governance and oversight from the communities they serve. We imagine a world in which communities of researchers, scholars, and knowledge workers across the globe are fully enabled to share, discover, and collaborate using tools and platforms that are designed to interoperate and complement one another rather than compete and exclude. IOI will consist of two functions, one is an assessment and recommendation framework that will regularly survey the landscape of open scholarly infrastructure with respect to its functionality, usage, health and financial needs and make funding recommendations for that infrastructure. IOI’s second function will coordinate funds to follow the recommendations of the framework. Coordinating financial resources from institutions, agencies and foundations, we will work to increase the overall funding available to emerging and critical infrastructure...." Wed, 15 May 2019 08:32:00 -0400 https://investinopen.org/2019/05/14/ioi-launch.html oa.open_science oa.platforms oa.new oa.academic_led oa.sparc oa.ioi oa.recommendations oa.sparc_europe oa.scholarly_commons oa.recommendations oa.platforms oa.open_science oa.new oa.monitoring oa.jfost oa.infrastructure oa.operas oa.europe oa.orfg This is the fourth post in a series, by our Editor-in-Chief Tom Olijhoek, which focusses on the details of copyright and licensing, how they are applied to works and which options and best practices DOAJ recommends. You can read all 4 installments in this series here. We also have a help page dedicated to Copyright and Licensing. ___________________________________________ In open access publishing, copyright and licensing issues are often not well understood by many and are not clearly described on journal websites. Some publishers we speak to think that they have to pay a fee to establish Creative Commons licensing on their site. Just as DOAJ is a free service, Creative Commons licenses from CreativeCommons.org are also free. At DOAJ we require open access publishers to use licenses for publications, and we recommend Creative Commons licenses as the best practice because these are free licenses tailor-made to meet the needs of open access. Publishers are also allowed to describe their own licenses as long as these comply and match Creative Commons licensing terms. We recommend that publishers leave the copyright with the authors. Although this is not a requirement for inclusion in DOAJ nor for using Creative commons licenses, we think that authors should retain their rights, including their copyright for their work. Copyright is part of the larger framework of intellectual property rights that encompasses publishing rights, reproduction in the form of video or audio, patents trademark, research data and more. Tue, 30 Oct 2018 07:48:00 -0400 https://blog.doaj.org/2018/10/30/copyright-and-licensing-part-4/ oa.new oa.copyright oa.licensing oa.policies oa.publishing oa.libre "Two major issues are often lacking within the general conversation about open access, whether in blogs, discussion lists or papers. Indeed, their invisibility is in itself a symptom of the problem that I want to briefly expose here. The first issue is the difference between openness and accessibility. Depending on where a person lives or what their resources are, they may forget that there exists such a difference, whereas it is obvious to others. A door may be open, but if a person does not have the ability to walk or find the path that leads to it, if many obstacles prevent them from moving forward, they will not be able to go through it: what then is the value or the meaning of the door’s openness? In other words, are articles and books in open access always accessible  and, if not, what does openness really mean? This question demands that more precise social and political analyses of accessibility be added to the usual discussions of publishers, copyright or policies. The second issue concerns what lies behind the door, in other words what kind of knowledge is so precious that the opening of the door to get it justifies all kinds of fighting and arguing and huge amounts of money? This fundamental epistemological debate seems to me very seldom dealt with within the general conversation about open access. Should all types of knowledge be covered by the open access movement? Or only the “science” that lies within the boundaries of the Web of Science, Google Scholar and Scopus databases, that is to say the “centre” of the science world-system? Should knowledge produced outside these boundaries, for instance non-English non-indexed knowledge produced in universities from the periphery of the science world-system, be left out of the fight for open access because it is not “properly scientific”?  Should the invisibility of knowledge coming from minorities or the Global South continue to be seen as not a problem?..." Wed, 14 Feb 2018 01:19:00 -0500 https://blog.doaj.org/2018/02/14/open-access-in-the-francophone-global-south-between-collective-empowerment-and-neocolonialism/ oa.definitions oa.principles oa.disciplines oa.tk oa.haiti oa.soha_project oa.development oa.hei oa.growth oa.green oa.new oa.access oa.french oa.africa oa.doaj oa.cognitive_injustice oa.repositories oa.south DOAJ has just created a new web resource that provides selection criteria for the identification of reputable open access journals to support researchers, publishers and librarians in their search of best practice and transparency standards.This resource is an attempt to collect discussions about open access to publications and its development.   This is a work in progress, so we would be very happy if you could have a look and suggest new resources to be added! Tue, 19 Dec 2017 03:55:00 -0500 https://www.doajbestpracticeguide.org/ oa.new oa.resource oa.doaj oa.open_science oa.best_practices oa.gold oa.journals At the end of October, the National Science Library, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NSL, CAS), the National Science and Technology Library (NSTL) and ShanghaiTech University Library signed the Open Access 2020 Initiative. The Director of NSL, CAS, Mr. LIU Huizhou, said that open access is beneficial to scientific research, scientific communication and the development of a creative society. The signature of OA2020 means that China will actively contribute to the reform of the global scientific communication system. It will also accelerate the implementation of CAS’s open access policy. China has long supported open access. In 2004, CAS signed Berlin Declaration on Open Access. In 2013, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and CAS signed GRC Action Plan on Open Access for Publications. In 2014, NSTL attended SCOAP3, and from then on Chinese authors can publish articles for free in journals funded by SCOAP3. On the same year, CAS  and NSFC  made statements about making publications funded by public money open access, and requested researchers to deposit accepted articles in their institutional repositories or the NSFC’s Open Repository and to make them open access within 12 months after publication. CAS supports its researchers to publish in open access & quality controlled journals with reasonable APCs, and researchers can choose quality controlled journals according to the inclusion criteria of DOAJ.  Fri, 24 Nov 2017 04:24:00 -0500 https://blog.doaj.org/2017/11/24/large-scale-implementation-of-open-access-in-china/ #openscience #openaccess "oa.new oa.china oa.oa2020 oa.transition oa.implementation oa.asia Le mouvement promouvant l’accès ouvert (open access en anglais) à la recherche a été lancé avec une belle idée, celle de mettre les résultats de la recherche à la disposition de tous dans des archives ouvertes et des revues ouvertes. Ce mouvement conquiert maintenant le monde pour le plus grand bénéfice des auteurs, des chercheurs, des étudiants, des bibliothèques, des éditeurs, des universités et des centres de recherche. Et, tout aussi important peut-être, pour le bénéfice du grand public, quelle que soit sa formation et quel que soit son parcours professionnel. Pour en savoir plus, merci de consulter la présentation de l’accès ouvert par Peter Suber. Certains passages ci-dessous sont d’ailleurs inspirés de cette présentation, un des multiples avantages de l’accès ouvert, à savoir pouvoir s’inspirer du travail d’autrui pour nos propres articles dans la mesure où le nom de la source originale et celui de son auteur sont impérativement cités et dans la mesure où ce travail original dispose d’une licence Creative Commons. Tue, 19 Jan 2016 03:42:00 -0500 https://marielebert.wordpress.com/2016/01/15/questions/ oa.new open access topics oa.french oa.intro oa.terminology oa.definitions oa.faqs Invitation for post-publication peer-review of accepted article This article gives an overview of the history and current status of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). After a brief historical overview, DOAJ policies regarding open access, intellectual property rights and questionable publishers are explained in detail. The larger part of this article is a much requested explanation on how DOAJ uses its new set of criteria for the evaluation of open access journals and the rationale behind choosing the seven extra criteria that qualify for the DOAJ Seal. A final section is devoted to the extended possibilities that DOAJ will be offering shortly to scholars and publishers for searching the database and for uploading metadata. The result is a renewed DOAJ that offers a more robust platform, a more stable database and enhanced services to allow the upload and collection of metadata. Mon, 18 Jan 2016 23:35:00 -0500 https://www.scienceopen.com/document/vid/2befee62-f9c0-4dc8-93c5-790d6102877d?0 oa.new open policy open access topics OPINION LETTER: I plead for disrupting the unassailable position of Nature. What added value does Nature provide to justify that we, the tax payers, have to pay Nature for a publication of research funded with our money,? Not a single one. Yet Nature has an unassailable position. Where did that come from? This comes from the editorial policy of Nature: almost every item offered is refused. Nature publishes only the cherry-picking. open access I plead to break this unassailable position of Nature; both science and society have no interest at all in the fact that knowledge disappears behind pay walls , even if it is temporary. This can be done by asking Nature to switch to an Open-access business model. This is possible by requesting of our researchers' to vote with their feet. "This is possible by weighing the value of Nature publications for the career of researchers wisely and not to assume quality blindly. Nature does not fit into the policy of free access to research for everyone. Mon, 02 Nov 2015 00:57:00 -0500 http://www.volkskrant.nl/opinie/waarom-moeten-wij-publicaties-nature-kopen~a4175925/ oa.new oa.policies oa.publishing "I was first introduced to open access in early 2012, through the website of CERN, where the web started in 1990. All what I knew so far was about Creative Commons and the Public Library of Science (PLOS), probably a good start but not enough. I am learning about open access every day, and will try to enrich this chronology when/if possible. The purpose is not a list with 1,000 links because such lists already exist. The purpose is a small list with websites that can be checked thoroughly to learn more about the open access movement. Peter Suber’s Open Access (the book) was very helpful to start this chronology. Here is also a chronology for ebooks I worked on from 1998 until 2010 (with an ongoing short version) ..." Mon, 22 Jun 2015 03:20:00 -0400 https://marielebert.wordpress.com/2015/06/20/openaccesschronology/ open access topics oa.new oa.timeline oa.resources oa.intro oa.definitions uniko and FWF recommend support of the Directory of Open Access Journals DOAJ enables free, quality-assured registration of scientific open access journals Vienna (OTS / FWF) - The Austrian University Conference (uniko) and the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) recommend research and funding institutions, as well as those responsible for research policy to support the "Directory of Open Access Journals" (DOAJ). For this purpose a joint letter of uniko and FWF was written and published now. DOAJ is a freely accessible, non-commercial database that organizes a quality-assured registration of scientific open access journals. DOAJ can naturally be supported not only by scientific organizations, but by all those who are interested, that scientific results are made freely available worldwide. Wed, 17 Jun 2015 00:41:00 -0400 http://www.ots.at/presseaussendung/OTS_20150617_OTS0063/uniko-und-fwf-empfehlen-unterstuetzung-des-directory-of-open-access-journals-anhang oa.new oa.doaj "The DOAJ Seal is now live. Although DOAJ has been indicating which journals get the Seal since March 2014, the Seal is now displayed alongside those journals that qualify. Look for this symbol ... We’ve also added a DOAJ Seal facet to the search so you can see all the Seal journals together.  Journals that adhere to an exceptionally high level of publishing standards and best practice are awarded the Seal as recognition of those efforts. The Seal is awarded to a journal that fulfills a set of criteria related to accessibility, openness, discoverability, reuse and author rights. It acts as a signal to readers and authors that the journal has generous use and reuse terms, author rights and adheres to the highest level of ‘openness’. The Seal has nothing to do with the scholarly quality of the material published in the journal.  To qualify for the Seal the journal must ..." Thu, 11 Jun 2015 02:30:00 -0400 https://doajournals.wordpress.com/2015/06/11/doaj-seal-is-now-live-on-the-site/ oa.new oa.doaj oa.standards oa.policies oa.gold oa.journals oa.announcements oa.quality Two weeks ago, I published Part 1 in our copyright and licensing series. Here is Part 2, a guest post by our Editor-in-Chief, Tom Olijhoek. The first part of the post covers 9 different scenarios that have different copyright and licensing conditions. Each scenario illustrates the most common set of conditions that we see for an author’s published work. Each scenario is followed by the two questions from the Copyright and Permissions section of the DOAJ Application form, illustrating how those questions should be answered: does the author hold the copyright without restriction; does the author retain publishing rights without restriction? There is a level of complexity in trying to illustrate this issue because there are 3 main variables that come into play: has the author transferred copyright? has a Creative Commons license being applied to the work and if so, which type? has a separate publishing agreement been signed with the publisher? The second part is a list of examples from publishers who have open access programs. We will update this list with more examples as we find them, particularly those that have unique characteristics. The last part is for those readers who want to get into more detail on this subject and is a list of recommended reading on this topic. Let us know if you have more! Thu, 04 Jun 2015 03:12:00 -0400 https://doajournals.wordpress.com/2015/06/02/copyright-and-licensing-part-2/ legal licensing & copyright publishing agreement oa.new oa.licensing oa.publishing oa.doaj oa.libre oa.copyright oa.agreements oa.law Now, more than ever, Erasmus University seeks the path of cooperation, which is needed to safeguard the scientific impact and social relevance of the knowledge we create. The university already countedsocial commitment, responsibility and curiosity among its key values. En route towards 2018, we have added the values of connectedness and relevance. We know that we can only really extend our boundaries by working together Thu, 09 Oct 2014 12:54:00 -0400 http://www.eur.nl/english/strategy2018/ erasmus university open data policy oa.new openaccess oa.erasmus.university oa.data ru.sparc oa.netherlands oa.policies This campaign is about academic freedom, about nurturing life, about the ethics of Chinese medicine and of publishing, and about promoting light and health and healing in harmony with nature in accordance with the wisdom from the ancient Chinese classics in true service to humanity and the universe. It is also about resisting and transforming what I see as a misguided desire  for profit and control over access to this wisdom, which has impaired the production and transmission of knowledge in our field. I love to translate classical Chinese.  I am one of a handful of people in the world with the obscure skill to read, understand, and communicate classical Chinese medical literature into modern English. Except for rare circumstances, I don't get paid to produce such translations, especially book-length texts, which can take literally thousands of hours and years of research to complete. I do it because I believe in the importance of this work and because of the response I receive from practitioners who apply their insights in their medical practices and personal lives. I am an idealistic academic and a writer, and I just want to see my work out there, available to anybody who wants or needs it. Last November, Happy Goat Productions with great pride and love published our first book, Venerating the Root I, a translation by myself of a 7th century text on pediatrics. Shortly thereafter, the publisher of three previous books of mine, Jonathan Schell and The Chinese Medicine Database, sued me out of the blue for $200,000 in damages, claiming ownership of this translation. In my eyes, this is a frivolous lawsuit because I never received any money from him for this work, I did not sign the contract he presented to me, and Mr. Schell told me clearly 1.5 years prior to my publication date that he was no longer interested in publishing the book.  For perspective, The Chinese Medicine Database, which published my translation of the writings on gynecology by the same 7th century author in 2008, is selling that book for $200 per copy, has no presence that I can discern in the international market, has not issued a revision even though I have made Mr. Schell aware of potentially fatal errors in the current edition, and is refusing to drop the price or create a cheaper paperback edition. As a result, sales are currently less than a copy a month. Mr. Schell has thereby put this book out of the reach of most interested practitioners, while at the same time prohibiting me from retranslating or republishing this material, thereby holding this important and potentially life-saving information hostage. Sun, 07 Sep 2014 13:10:00 -0400 https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/nurturing-life-the-essence-of-chinese-medicine?utm_campaign=06-09-2014+2015_Sabine-Wilms&utm_content=Mailing_8037391&utm_medium=email&utm_source=CleverReach public access web of knowledge legal licensing & copyright "There is an interesting study out in the journal PNAS: 'Evaluating big deal journal bundles'. The study details the disparity in negotiation skills between different US institutions when haggling with publishers about subscription pricing. For Science Magazine, John Bohannon of 'journal sting' fame, wrote a news article about the study, which did not really help him gain any respect back from all that he lost with his ill-fated sting-piece. While the study itself focused on journal pricing among US-based institutions, Bohannon’s news article, where one would expect a little broader perspective than in the commonly more myopic original papers, fails to mention that even the ‘best’ big deals are grossly overcharging the taxpayer. Here is the figure of the article, apparently provided by the PNAS authors ..." Tue, 17 Jun 2014 12:56:00 -0400 http://bjoern.brembs.net/2014/06/your-university-pays-too-much-for-journals/ oa.new subscription prices oa.comment oa.prices oa.publishers oa.business_models oa.nas oa.usa oa.libraries oa.librarians oa.universities oa.colleges oa.hei Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) assesses scientific track record only by open access publications The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF ) supports research projects in the millions. Only good people and good projects should be supported. Projects are assessed according to content criteria .but also according to the track record of the researchers and scientists . The track record allows estimating the future performance from past work. According to the principle , who has done good work in the past will do so in the future. The performance is evaluated on the basis of published research articles . Unfortunately, it is now so that not all research articles are freely accessible. So also research funding institutions can not consider all research publications directly for evaluation. Items must be purchased or even journals are subscribed . Subscriptions to professional journals can quickly cost several millions. For research funding this is a waste of money. this money could be better spent on projects. Thu, 29 May 2014 02:49:00 -0400 http://patientensicht.ch/artikel/schweizerischer-national-fonds-snf-beurteilt-wissenschaftlichen-leistungsausweis-nur-noch oa.new oa.switzerland oa.german ru.sparc oa.policies "Opening knowledge is great. Sharing knowledge is vital. In the past, publishers were the sole mediators for the dissemination of knowledge in printed form. In our, digital age, sharing has become easier thanks to the internet. Yet, although all areas of society have embraced the internet as THE sharing medium, scientific publishing has lagged far behind. Nowhere else are the advantages of sharing knowledge so obvious as in science: but instead of facilitating sharing, scientific publishers desperately try to protect their grip on the access to knowledge. Open access publication systems are a real threat to their lucrative business. That is why finding arguments against open access have become of vital importance. Similarly, countering these arguments is of vital importance for all of us who need [open] access ... Tim Gowers’ recently published   blog post on his quest for information on subscription prices for Elsevier journals, using direct approaches (calling, writing publishers and libraries)  and indirect approaches (demanding information based on the FOI),  has caused a major stir. I recommend reading Michelle Brook’s very good overview in her recent blog. Some really astonishing facts have already come to light. It has for instance become apparent that different institutions pay very different prices for almost the ‘same’ deals. Also, universities that did not want to give the information responded often using the argument of commercial interests that had to be protected (full details for all cases in Tim Gowers blog post) The ‘Big deals’ that ELSEVIER and other scientific publishers have made with libraries, form their insurance for long term profits. Making these deals subject to confidentiality actively prevents decrease of prices for publishing which would otherwise occur through market mechanisms. And better still from the publisher’s viewpoint, so-called hybrid journals that allow open-access publishing at a price, only add to the profits. Although publishers say that prices for subscriptions will be lowered when the proportion of paid for open access articles increase, there is as yet no sign of this. APC charges for open access articles in hybrid journals are on the average $900 more expensive than for full open access journals ... One of the new items that came to light was the fact that Elsevier and other publishers receive extra fees that allow articles to be re-used for education. One would think that this situation would be covered by fair use policies but this is not the case. Esther Hoorn of Groningen University, NL provided the following link for an overview of worldwide rules on fair use and limitations for educational use: Study for Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for Educational Activities in North America, Europe, Caucasus, Central Asia and Israel (by Raquel Xalabarder, Professor of Law, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Barcelona, Spain) ... Three items were heavily discussed on the open access mailing list, apart from the cost of toll access publishing (what customers had to pay), the cost of open access publishing and open access to data which is necessary for text and datamining ..." Fri, 16 May 2014 03:39:00 -0400 http://access.okfn.org/2014/05/16/the-cost-of-scientific-publishing-update-and-call-for-action/ oa.advocacy oa.economics_of oa.economics)of publishing lobby oa.new oa.comment oa.universities oa.libraries oa.publishers oa.business_models oa.elsevier oa.prices oa.profits oa.gold oa.fees oa.hybrid oa.hei oa.journals Are you developing innovative online products for humanitarians? Do you want to incorporate ReliefWeb content and data in your website or online application? Then the new ReliefWeb API may be just what you’re looking for.It’s been eight months since we released the initial version of the API to a small number of interested developers. We were encouraged by the interest and feedback, but we also quickly realized that there was a lot more to APIs than just making it work - we needed to turn it into a real product. Thu, 10 Apr 2014 06:01:00 -0400 http://reliefweb.int/blogpost/transforming-humanitarian-data-knowledge-introducing-reliefweb-api open data policy open data oa.data oa.funders oa.humanities ru.sparc oa.new oa.policies oa.ssh Standard Evaluation Protocol 2015 – 2021  Protocol for Research Assessments in the Netherlands A new protocol puts more emphasis on the relevance of the research for society and dismisses the former criteria of absolute number of publications Thu, 27 Mar 2014 04:48:00 -0400 http://www.rijksoverheid.nl/documenten-en-publicaties/richtlijnen/2014/03/01/standard-evaluation-protocol-2015-2021.html open policy science politics oa.policies oa.politics oa.netherlands oa.dutch ru.sparc oa.funders "For a meeting of the Open Access work group of Dutch university libraries and the licenses work group of those same universities I was asked to make an estimate of the Costs for a 100% Gold OA model for the Netherlands. In this blog post I want to explain the methodology how I arrived at the outcome of the current calculation and contribute to this subject." Thu, 06 Mar 2014 02:46:00 -0500 http://wowter.net/2014/03/05/costs-going-gold-netherlands/ oa.costs oa.economics_of oa.business_models oa.publishers oa.gold oa.netherlands oa.slideshare apc subscription business model oa. economics_of oa.new oa.subscription.business.model oa.economics ru.sparc oa.lobby oa.fees oa.presentations oa.journals oa.ssh Materials from four presentations all taking place within the past five weeks. Sat, 01 Mar 2014 06:23:00 -0500 http://www.infodocket.com/2014/02/28/slides-and-video-materials-from-four-webinarspresentations-about-altmetrics/ slides oa.new altmetrics oa.slides oa.video oa.altmetrics oa.metrics @RHDijkgraaf compares toll access scientific publishers with dinosaurs and #OA with impact that destroyed these. He critizes the big deals that big publishers make with libraries, where in order to read one journal , you have to subscribe to a whole package. Sat, 01 Mar 2014 06:23:00 -0500 http://www.nrc.nl/handelsblad/van/2014/maart/01/big-deal-1350951?utm_content=buffer20535&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer subscription business model impact oa.new oa.impact ru.sparc oa.netherlands oa.dutch oa.business_models oa.subscriptions Following a number of requests for the presentations from the PfD conference last year we are pleased to announce they are now online!In October, the fifth annual Publishers for Development (PfD) conference explored current developments in scholarly communication including their impact on publishers, researchers and information professionals in the global South. The rapid growth in open access, the potential for social media to increase communication of research and also new measures for the way research is used were all topics viewed from a Southern perspective. Sun, 09 Feb 2014 12:29:00 -0500 http://www.pubs-for-dev.info/2014/01/conference-presentations-now-available-in-audio-video-and-pdf/ oa.new developing world conference papers oa.south By Micah Vandegrift | February 5, 2014The Editorial Team at Open Access Now is taking a hiatus to review our goals and workflows (i.e. we all got real busy.)In the meantime, please enjoy this collection of writings that rose to the top of scholarly communication and open access conversations in the past year. We hope to continue to curate, analyze and repurpose the best and most relevant writings/ideas as we encounter them, and this blog, and the ebook, represent our investment in doing so.Thank you,The Editors.———-The Best Scholarly Communication Writing of 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.926779 Thu, 06 Feb 2014 01:52:00 -0500 http://oanow.org/2014/02/scholcomm2013/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OANow+%28oanow%29 oa.new oa.comment oa.curation The week in review – Week 5, 2014For a Dutch Open Access advocate there was one event that stood out this week. The speech of @SanderDekker our junior minister Science Policy at the Academic Publishing in Europe 2014 conference this week. His speech ‘Going for Gold‘ was a passionate plea for Open Access that should be achieved through the Golden Road.Open access is a moral obligation, essential for society and inescapable.He did not debunk the Green route entirely, but for Dekker the Green Road to Open Access was like coming fourth on a major championship. In the end “if you are going for gold, fourth place is the most frustrating place you can achieve”. As a product manager, responsible for our repository Staff Publications, I see one clear and present danger in the view of our junior minister. If he accepts the Golden Route as the only route, it might lead to the negligence of the Green Route and subsequently the deterioration repository infrastructure in the Netherlands. Mon, 03 Feb 2014 08:41:00 -0500 http://wowter.net/2014/02/02/week-review-week-5-2014/ open policy narcis airway oa.new oa.narcis oa.netherlands oa.mandates oa.gold oa.repositories oa.policies oa.journals Public Consultation on the review of the EU copyright rules  Deadline for submissions extended from 05.12.2013 to 05.03.2014  Mon, 03 Feb 2014 07:35:00 -0500 http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/consultations/2013/copyright-rules/index_en.htm eu legal licensing & copyright oa.new oa.europe ru.sparc oa.copyright In a major victory for advocates of open access to data from clinical trials, Johnson & Johnson today announced that it will make all of its clinical trial data available to outside researchers. The company said that the Yale University Open Data Access (YODA) Project will serve as an independent third party “to review requests from investigators and physicians seeking access to anonymized clinical trials data.”The company said that this program “is the first time any company has collaborated with a completely independent third party to review and make decisions regarding every request for clinical data.” Last year Glaxo SmithKline and Pfizer announced that they would share  clinical trial data, but the full extent of their commitment is still unclear and they have not arranged for an independent third party to review requests for data. Through its arrangement with YODA J&J appears to have made a more substantial commitment to sharing its data. Other pharmaceutical and device companies will now undoubtedly face increased pressure to share their data as well. Fri, 31 Jan 2014 11:44:00 -0500 http://www.forbes.com/sites/larryhusten/2014/01/30/johnson-johnson-will-share-clinical-trial-data/ oa.new access to medicine clinical trials open data policy oa.pharma oa.industry oa.medicine oa.data Herzlich willkommen zur 1. Folge des Open Science in Aktion Podcast!In dieser Folge wird das Thema Open Educational Resources, oder auch kurz OER, behandelt. Unter OER verstehet man offene Lehr- und Lernmaterialien.Im Interview berichtet Martin Ebner von der TU Graz, um was es sich bei Open Educational Resources im Detail handelt, wie das mit Open Science zusammenspielt und was die bisherigen praktischen Erfahrungen damit sind.Viel Spaß beim Hören! Thu, 30 Jan 2014 11:48:00 -0500 http://openscienceasap.org/stream/2014/01/27/osia1-open-educational-resources/ oa.new austria oa.education oa.open_science oa.oer Highlights from the first in a new series of webinars where we hold an online interactive conversation with key industry figures. Crispin Taylor from the American Society of Plant Biologists talks to CEO of PLOS, Elizabeth Marincola. Wed, 29 Jan 2014 06:17:00 -0500 oa.new publishing reform scientific publishing research quality peer-review "Hereunder Sander Dekker´s complete speech at the Academic Publishing conference in Berlin: 'What better place could there be for the subject of open access than Berlin? It was here that, over ten years ago, the importance of open access was endorsed in the Berlin declaration. Of course, this raises the question:  what is our position on this now and which direction will we take? What better group of people could there be to answer this question? As publishers, science associations, universities, research funding agencies, libraries, scientists and government representatives, you all play a decisive role in the distribution of knowledge. Together, we can now decide on the direction that open access should take ... Open access is a moral obligation, essential for society and inescapable. That is the summary of my argument so far. No doubt you are thinking: ‘That's nothing new.’ ‘We knew that long ago’.Over ten years ago, you came together as a scientific community to establish just that in the Berlin declaration. But my question to you now is: why are we not much farther advanced in open access in 2014? The world has definitely not stood still in the last ten years. How can it be that the scientific world – which has always been a frontrunner in innovation - has made so little progress on this? Why are most scientific journals still hidden away behind paywalls?  I believe that this is because we may well agree on the necessity of open access but disagree on how it can be achieved. What will be the costs of the transition to open access journals? Will there be a profitable business model for publishers? Or to put this question in more technical terms: should we choose the Green Road or the Golden Road? ... How to become the winner? We know that setting high ambitions and keeping focus are the most important factors in reaching for gold. We also know that the Golden Road is not the easiest route. It takes time and a lot of energy. It is complicated and requires a great deal of negotiation, in which there will inevitably be compromises. This is because all players must participate: publishers, universities, libraries, funding agencies and scientists themselves.It is therefore totally understandable that some players prefer the comfort of the Green Road. I also understand why there is criticism of the Golden Road. Publishers are willing, but are not at the forefront because of the revenue they earn from expensive subscriptions and embargoes. Universities fear the Golden Road because of the expense it involves, especially if the transition takes time.   And many scientists are oblivious to the urgency of open access. From their university desks, they can already access all types of scientific articles: the very access that is so lacking in the world outside the universities. So everyone holds each other back, waiting for the others to respond. Ultimately settling for fourth place.  This is why I am making an appeal to all of you. All us today here in Berlin face a choice. We are being asked whether we will stick to our high ambitions or whether we will settle for less. I am going for the Golden Road. I am opting for high ambitions and I believe it is genuinely possible. As long as we act quickly and, more importantly, as long as we act together. I cannot achieve it alone, governments cannot achieve it alone, no one can achieve it alone.As the State Secretary for science in the Netherlands, I see it as my responsibility to bring the key players together. I have therefore invited all my fellow ministers and state secretaries in Europe to coordinate our national agendas on this issue.  But that is nowhere near enough. Ultimately it is about you, in the world of science, standing behind this movement. I see excellent initiatives everywhere. It is now time to make effective agreements about open access. Agreements that benefit all parties involved: publishers, science associations, funding agencies, universities and libraries. The fact that it is possible is proved by SCOAP3, a consortium of the parties mentioned above that has developed an interesting business model specifically for particle physics. This is a promising example of the route to open access ..." Wed, 29 Jan 2014 05:43:00 -0500 http://www.scienceguide.nl/201401/the-end-of-the-paywall.aspx oa.debates oa.green oa.gold oa.mandates oa.netherlands oa.events oa.speech oa.new oa.repositories oa.policies oa.journals "Within the context of the Centre for Copyright and New Business Models in the Creative Economy (CREATe) research scope, this literature review investigates the current trends, advantages, disadvantages, problems and solutions, opportunities and barriers in Open Access Publishing (OAP), and in particular Open Access (OA) academic publishing.  This study is intended to scope and evaluate current theory and practice concerning models for OAP and engage with intellectual, legal and economic perspectives on OAP. It is also aimed at mapping the field of academic publishing in the UK and abroad, drawing specifically upon the experiences of CREATe industry partners as well as other initiatives such as SSRN, open source software, and Creative Commons. As a final critical goal, this scoping study will identify any meaningful gaps in the relevant literature with a view to developing further research questions. The results of this scoping exercise will then be presented to relevant industry and academic partners at a workshop intended to assist in further developing the critical research questions pertinent to OAP." Wed, 22 Jan 2014 12:24:00 -0500 http://www.create.ac.uk/publications/open-access-publishing-a-literature-review/ oa.create oa.green oa.ssrn oa.floss oa.economics_of oa.licensing oa.copyright oa.business_models oa.publishers oa.colleges oa.universities oa.study oa.new oa.repositories oa.hei oa.libre oa.creative_commons "Developing and emerging countries searching for a model of Open Access publishing should take a long look at how the publishing system has evolved in Latin America. Before the phrase 'Open Access' was coined and the movement officially launched, academics in Brazil embraced sharing scholarly research online and the idea spread. In 1997, SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online) was launched as a pilot program to coordinate academic publishing on the web for a collection of Brazilian journals. This pioneering effort was supported by both the research funder community, with the São Paulo Science Foundation (FAPESP) as a principle player, and the scientific information community, with the Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information playing a leading role. Thu, 19 Dec 2013 11:57:00 -0500 http://www.sparc.arl.org/news/open-access-latin-america-embraced-key-visibility-research-outputs oa.scielo oa.latin_america oa.impact oa.comment oa.new oa.south