Items tagged by kb59 in Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) https://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/user/kb59 TagTeam social RSS aggregrator Blog post by Marc Couture aimed at sparking contructive debate about Plan-S, and specifically the feared challenge to 'Academic Freedom'. "Given the apparent disenchantment with Plan S amongst at least some in the research community, and given that researchers find themselves increasingly subjected to ever more demanding OA policies like it (in which new duties, new restrictions and limitations, and new responsibilities are imposed on them), it is surely time to look again at what academic freedom does and does not mean, and what it should and should not mean in today’s context, and try to redefine and/or refine it for today’s historical situation; or at least to, as Marc Couture puts it in his guest post below, seek to “reframe” it?"   Mon, 12 Nov 2018 06:54:00 -0500 https://poynder.blogspot.com/2018/11/plan-s-and-researchers-rights-reframing.html oa.new oa.ukri oa.gates_foundation oa.wellcome_trust oa.funders oa.plan_s oa.mandates oa.policies oa.academic_freedom oa.europe A blog post by the open access team at Imperial College London, UK. In the post they explain the raitoanle for wanted to create a shared community reseource to track expensive Article Processing Charges. "[I]t can sometimes be easy to lose sight of what we are actually authorising each time we approve an application: namely, the payment of thousands of pounds of taxpayers’/charities’/institutions’ money to (often exceptionally profitable) publishers" "Although at Imperial we have not yet introduced a cap for the APCs we will pay, this is something that is likely to be rolled out by funders in the near future, so we think it is important to record the APCs we have paid for already that were particularly costly."   Fri, 26 Oct 2018 09:55:00 -0400 http://wwwf.imperial.ac.uk/blog/openaccess/2018/10/26/slowing-down-the-gold-rush-a-community-resource-to-keep-track-of-expensive-apcs/ oa.publishers oa.uk oa.charges oa.fees oa.journals oa.gold Blog post from the University of St Andrews looking at the repository statistics service IRUS-UK. The post looks at some examples of content from the St Andrews Research Repository to gain a better understanding of how the repository can enahnce the reuse potential of research results. Tue, 23 Oct 2018 03:30:00 -0400 https://univstandrews-oaresearch.blogspot.com/2018/10/irus-uk-statistics-and-benchmarking-for.html oa.new oa.statistics oa.scotland oa.uk oa.repositories oa.metrics Blog post from the University of St Andrews regarding a new Open Access book published by one of their researchers, as well as looking at a previous OA book that has received a lot of attention since it was published on the St Andrews Research Repository. Mon, 22 Oct 2018 03:18:00 -0400 https://univstandrews-oaresearch.blogspot.com/2018/10/open-access-books-tony-crooks-new-book.html oa.new oa.books oa.humanities oa.ssh Science Business article giving some further detail on some of the issues and risks being discussed about the recently announced 'PlanS' "Publishers, scientists and funding bodies alike have voiced concerns to Science|Business at the latest European Commissioned-orchestrated move on open access, saying the time frame is too short and the proposal has not been thought through."   Thu, 06 Sep 2018 07:31:00 -0400 https://sciencebusiness.net/news/hope-and-welter-concerns-greets-europes-radical-open-access-plan oa.plan_s oa.europe oa.policies oa.new oa.funders.public oa.debates oa.mandates oa.policies.funders oa.funders Open Access publishing data for period 2009-2016. Data from Scopus. "Around 29 per cent of scientific papers are published in open access publications, according to Scopus data analysed by the European Commission. However, the share of papers available for free directly from the publisher, the so-called gold open access publications, grew from 9.6 per cent in 2012 to 14.4 per cent in 2016. At the same time, the number of “green” self-archiving open access papers has declined." [Emphasis added] Thu, 06 Sep 2018 06:39:00 -0400 https://sciencebusiness.net/news-byte/open-access-publications-growth-steadies oa.new oa.statistics oa.growth The League of European Research Universities (LERU)reaction to the announcement of 'Plan S' "Plan S represents a bold plan fundamentally to change the pattern of academic publishing, moving decisively away from subscription journals to full and immediate Open Access (OA). From 1 January 2020 academic publications, where the research has been funded by public grants provided by national and European Research Councils and funding bodies, must be published in compliant Open Access Journals or on compliant Open Access platforms. The vision is ambitious and represents a further step in the unstoppable move to immediate Open Access. The researchers will retain their copyright and will not be able to assign it to publishers as a condition of being published. Article Processing Charges (APCs) will be capped at a certain level and, crucially, payment of hybrid APCs will no longer be possible via this funding mechanism." Tue, 04 Sep 2018 04:43:00 -0400 https://www.leru.org/news/accelerating-the-transition-to-full-and-immediate-open-access-to-scientific-publications-lerus-reaction-to-plan-s oa.declarations oa.libass oa.new oa.plan_s oa.funders.public oa.mandates oa.copyright oa.principles oa.policies oa.funders oa.ukri oa.principles oa.policies.funders oa.policies oa.plan_s oa.new oa.mandates oa.libraries oa.libass oa.leru oa.funders.public oa.europe oa.declarations oa.copyright oa.europe oa.libraries oa.funders Initial analysis of the ambitious 'Plan S': "Research funders from France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and eight other European nations have unveiled a radical open-access initiative that could change the face of science publishing in two years — and which has instantly provoked protest from publishers." Tue, 04 Sep 2018 04:30:00 -0400 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06178-7 oa.new oa.publishers oa.europe oa.ukri oa.declarations oa.plan_s oa.funders.public oa.hybrid oa.licensing oa.fees oa.compliance oa.policies.funders oa.mandates oa.copyright oa.principles oa.libre oa.policies oa.funders The University of Kansas Libraries are now accepting nominations for the fifth annual Shulenburger Award for Innovation & Advocacy in Scholarly Communication. The award will be granted for exceptional efforts to advance innovations in open sharing and advocacy for positive change in the scholarly communication system. Up to two awardees will be selected from nominations of KU Lawrence faculty/staff members and/or undergraduate or graduate students involved in a faculty-sponsored project. KU Lawrence academic departments, research centers and schools are also eligible for the award. Fri, 31 Aug 2018 08:01:00 -0400 http://today.ku.edu/ku-libraries-accepting-nominations-5thannual-open-access-award oa.new oa.awards oa.kansas.u oa.libraries oa.north_america oa.hei "European Research Council says move is to support open access and get round often lengthy publishing process" Fri, 10 Aug 2018 07:07:00 -0400 https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/new-boost-preprints-after-acceptance-erc oa.new oa.europe oa.preprints oa.funders.public oa.assessment oa.funders oa.versions oa.erc "The University of Chicago Press, which published The Intellectual Properties of Learning: A Prehistory from Saint Jerome to John Locke in January 12th, 2018, has agreed to making the final draft of the book open access as an experiment in light of the book's themes."   This book seeks to unearth the provenance of open access in academia, by presenting a detailed historical account of how open access was inscribed into learning and academia from the third century through to the end of the 18th century. Fri, 12 Jan 2018 04:43:00 -0500 https://intellectualproperties.stanford.edu/ oa.history oa.books oa.learning oa.philosophy oa.ssh oa.humanities "Connect OER is a platform to share and discover information about OER activities at campuses across North America. Beginning with SPARC members, academic libraries can sign up to maintain a profile page about their institution’s efforts on OER. This data will be used to populate a searchable directory and annual report that showcases trends, best practices, and collective impact being achieved through OER."   Sun, 01 Oct 2017 12:09:00 -0400 https://sparcopen.org/our-work/connect-oer/ oa.new oa.sparc oa.tools oa.libraries oa.trends oa.best_practices oa.growth oa.education oa.learning oa.north_america oa.oer oa.usa oa.canada oa.universities oa.hei This is an article reporting the announcment by the European Competitiveness Council that starting in 2020 it will mandate open access for publications arising from its research grants. This brings it in line with other EU funders such as European Commission and Marie Curie. The exact terms of the mandate are not explained however. "European Union officials announced today that, starting in 2020, any research that owes its existence in some way to public funding must be freely accessible and reusable. Recommendations were also made to encourage investment and ease the passage of startup founders between various European states." Fri, 27 May 2016 06:55:00 -0400 https://techcrunch.com/2016/05/27/eu-mandates-open-access-for-all-publicly-funded-research-by-2020/?guccounter=1 oa.europe oa.policies.funders oa.policies oa.mandates oa.funders.public oa.funders The Monographs and Open Access Project was set up to consider the place of monographs in the arts, humanities and social science disciplines, and how they fit into the developing world of open access to research. The project was led by Geoffrey Crossick, Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, and was commissioned by HEFCE in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Evidence to support the project was gathered through an programme of consultations, surveys, data-gathering and research activities. The research was supported and shaped by an Expert Reference Group of publishers, academics, librarians, funders, open access experts in the UK and overseas. The main findings of the report are as follows: [1] Monographs are a vitally important and distinctive vehicle for research communication, and must be sustained in any moves to open access. The availability of printed books alongside the open-access versions will be essential. [2] Contrary to many perceptions, it would not be appropriate to talk of a crisis of the monograph; this does not mean that monographs are not facing challenges, but the arguments for open access would appear to be for broader and more positive reasons than solving some supposed crisis. [3] Open access offers both short- and long-term advantages for monograph publication and use; many of these are bound up with a transition to digital publishing that has not been at the same speed as that for journals. [4] There is no single dominant emerging business model for supporting open-access publishing of monographs; a range of approaches will coexist for some time and it is unlikely that any single model will emerge as dominant. Policies will therefore need to be flexible. HEFCE will consider this report and discuss its policy implications with other research funders including AHRC and ESRC, recognising that any steps towards policies for open-access monographs should be preceded by a thorough process of consultation and engagement." Thu, 22 Jan 2015 06:16:00 -0500 http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/rereports/year/2015/monographs/ oa.librarians oa.libraries oa.business_models oa.publishers oa.humanities oa.arts oa.books oa.funders oa.uk oa.esrc oa.ahrc oa.hefce oa.new ru.sparc15 ru.sparc15_humanities oa.reports oa.ssh oa.rcuk oa.ukri This is a short Google+ discussion thread on a 2016 Nature commentary titled: 'Paper piracy sparks online debate' https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2016.19841. Tue, 25 Mar 2014 06:42:00 -0400 https://plus.google.com/+NatureNewsComment/posts/izSekhYbDVw oa.sci-hub oa.piracy oa.debates oa.black_open_access oa.copyright oa.usage oa.guerrilla Citation (APA): Stiglitz, J. (1999-07-29). Knowledge as a Global Public Good. In  (Ed.), Global Public Goods: International Cooperation in the 21st Century. : Oxford University Press Abstract: "This chapter examines the worldwide trend toward increased privatization of both information and information and communications technologies, as well as the shrinking role of states and the effects on peoples’ access to adequate information goods and services. Publicness cannot be guaranteed unless users have low‐cost access to the opportunities afforded by the new information technologies. Privatization of telecommunications carriers will not guarantee low‐cost access and may actually impede it. In absolute terms, the prices of knowledge goods and services are higher in Africa than in high‐income countries. In addition, even though information and communications technologies have public good attributes, they are embedded in power relationships. In particular, they are crucial for access to developing country markets, for intelligence purposes and for the transmission of ideas and ideologies. Most of all, they have the potential to widen the gap between haves and have‐nots. Accordingly, the chapter calls for a renewed commitment to a public service agenda and, to that end, for increased cooperation between states on a regional basis.” Snippet from conclusion: “The efficient production and equitable use of global knowledge require collective action. The challenge facing the international community is whether we can make our current system of voluntary, cooperative governance work in the collective interests of all.” Tue, 25 Mar 2014 06:02:00 -0400 https://doi.org/10.1093/0195130529.003.0015 oa.communication_technology oa.book_chapter oa.obstacles oa.south oa.development oa.communication This is a very useful resource for higher education institutions looking to develop new strategies to reduce the cost of course materials. The website features a selection of freely available textbooks, some of which are open access with creative commons licences, as well as webinars and other open education resources. Although the resource is primarily targeted at North American universities, it is of universal interest in terms of promoting best practice. "The three State of California Higher Education Systems are working together to provide you easy access to quality FREE and OPEN eTextbooks that everyone and anyone can use for teaching and learning" Tue, 25 Mar 2014 05:44:00 -0400 http://www.cool4ed.org/ oa.education oa.learning oa.north_america oa.hei oa.usa oa.usa.ca oa.oer "In October 2016, a group of educational visionaries met in Bologna and launched the Bologna Open Recognition Declaration (bord), calling for the creation of an Open Architecture for the recognition of all forms of learning. The declaration remains open for public endorsement via signature and the opportunity to claim a badge."       Tue, 25 Mar 2014 05:22:00 -0400 https://www.openrecognition.org/2016/12/23/call-for-an-open-recognition-alliance/ oa.learning oa.education oa.declarations oa.recommendations oa.badges oa.signatures oa.advocacy Blog post about a 2011 article on Aaron Swartz who was charged for breaking hacking laws in the United States when he downloaded over 4.8 million academic articles from JSTOR. Tragically, Aaron went on to commit suicide in 2013. Sun, 13 Jan 2013 09:31:00 -0500 https://sarahkendzior.com/2013/01/16/aaron-swartz-and-open-access-in-academia/ oa.paywalls oa.aaron_swartz oa.guerrilla oa.advocacy oa.copyright oa.usa