tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:/hubs/oatp/user/scotttjacques/atom 2026-02-03T18:02:21-05:00 TagTeam social RSS aggregrator tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/17224609 2026-02-03T18:02:21-05:00 2026-02-03T18:02:21-05:00

<p>Open access (OA) and generative artificial intelligence (genAI) shape how researchers, practitioners, and policymakers discover and synthesize criminological knowledge. We examined how deep-research tools from three popular genAI platforms handle criminology literature reviews. The systems vary considerably in quality: some produce plausible reports with unreliable citations, while others generate structured reviews drawing predominantly on OA and other free-to-read full-text articles and reports. The findings reveal that genAI is making OA outputs central to criminology’s evidence base. Free materials are easier for both humans and machines to discover, scrutinize, and integrate into policy and practice. Paywalled research is more likely to be ignored. The takeaway is clear: making work OA is more essential than ever for influencing criminology’s future.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/17198498 2026-01-21T14:08:09-05:00 2026-01-21T14:08:09-05:00

<p><span>The Ar.io Foundation stewards open protocols and open-source software for naming, indexing, and access on the Permaweb. All code and methods relevant to this document are public and independently verifiable. The Foundation welcomes external review and commentary from preservation practitioners and standards bodies as part of an open research and standards-alignment effort.</span> <span>Continuum is an Ar.io Digital Preservation Initiative (DPI) - an open effort to align decentralized, verifiable data permanence with established digital-preservation standards. Built on Arweave’s permanent-storage layer and the ar.io gateway network, Continuum demonstrates how decentralized infrastructure can fulfill the same guarantees of authenticity, integrity, and accessibility that underpin frameworks like the Open Archival Information System (OAIS).</span> <span>Its goal is to bridge the trust models of institutional preservation and decentralized technology, ensuring that cultural, scientific, and public-interest data can remain permanently accessible, verifiable, and independent of any single institution or provider.</span> <span>Continuum provides institutions and archives with a protocol-based architecture for decentralized preservation, aligned with the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) reference model. It enables one-time funding for long-term storage through Arweave’s endowment model, eliminating recurring renewals or subscription fees while ensuring verifiable, redundant access across the ar.io gateway network - even if any single provider goes offline.</span> <span>Each preserved record carries a permanent, verifiable identifier ensuring provenance, integrity, and reliable citation. Network-wide verification and observation maintain authenticity over time, while open standards and open-source software ensure interoperability and freedom from vendor lock-in.</span></p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/17168389 2026-01-05T13:37:11-05:00 2026-01-05T13:37:11-05:00

<p>Podcasts are a useful educational resource for improving student success, yet traditional methods of podcasting remain inefficient, vulnerable to censorship and deletion, and access-restricted. One approach to addressing these constraints is utilitarian digital pedagogy, which focuses on the use of digital tools to advance education for the greater good. Framed as such, this article outlines the conceptual and theoretical issues underlying how generative artificial intelligence (genAI), Web3, and open access (OA) improve podcasting’s utility relative to the alternatives: manual creation, Web2, and closed access. The article concludes by looking ahead to the major problems—hallucination, technical complexity, and rights management—to overcome in practice.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/16413135 2025-10-14T13:33:47-04:00 2025-10-14T13:33:47-04:00

<p>This month marks the two year anniversary of CrimRxiv Consortium, a global network of leaders, providers, and supporters of open criminology. It has 30 institutional members from Belgium, Canada, England, Germany, New Zealand, South Asia, Spain, and the United States. Together they advance CrimRxiv—criminology’s open-access hub and repository, which garners more than one million pageviews per month. To celebrate this anniversary, CrimConsortium launched its long-anticipated individual membership program. The goal is to grow their network to push open criminology further ahead: do better science and generate greater impact in a way that promotes social justice. To join as an individual member, visit <a href="https://app.joinit.com/o/crimconsortium/">app.joinit.com/o/crimconsortium</a>.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/16234796 2025-10-05T13:12:46-04:00 2025-10-05T13:12:46-04:00

<p>CrimRxiv Consortium announces its partnership with Onboard, which helps organizations to meet their storage and compute needs with Arweave and AO. Arweave is a decentralized network for storing data permanently online. AO is its computing layer that allows anyone to run autonomous programs on top of permanent data. (You can also hear about the partnership with <a href="https://doi.org/10.21428/cb6ab371.2c436926">this podcast</a>.)</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/14293493 2025-06-23T10:59:55-04:00 2025-06-23T10:59:55-04:00

<p>tl;dr: Hear about the book here: https://x.com/SJacques83/status/1937162390283419842</p> <div> <div> <p> </p> <p>There's a new edition (v2) of the Open Access Reader (OAR). It's an evolving anthology of OA books curated from the MIT Press catalog and published via the open-source PubPub platform. OAR v2 transitions from reproducing book excerpts in HTML to embedding full-book PDFs, a change driven by considerations of production efficiency and legal clarity. Each featured book is accompanied by a podcast-style audio overview (made with genAI, specifically Google NotebookLM) and transcript, further enhancing accessibility and educational value. OAR v2 also expands its coverage with three new titles. </p> </div> </div>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/13958207 2025-06-03T11:18:56-04:00 2025-06-03T11:18:56-04:00

<p>CrimRxiv Consortium welcomes its newest member: the <a href="https://cls.soceco.uci.edu/">Department of Criminology, Law and Society</a> at the University of California (UC) Irvine. A top-ranked program, the department is known for its interdisciplinary approach with a focus on the causes and consequences of crime, legal systems, and social control. UC Irvine now has <a href="https://crimrxiv.com/ucirvine">its own “Hub”</a> on CrimRxiv. It’ll highlight open-access publications by their authors, enhancing their visibility and impact.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/13271215 2025-03-09T15:13:00-04:00 2025-03-09T15:13:00-04:00

<p>The CrimRxiv Consortium, a network of leading institutions in open criminology, has welcomed its 28th member: The Journal of Historical Criminology (JHC). As a diamond open-access journal, JHC showcases multidisciplinary contributions from criminology, history, law, sociology, and other related disciplines, all without charging fees to authors or readers. ... Both CrimRxiv and JHC are published on <a href="https://www.pubpub.org/">PubPub</a>, an open-source platform provided by <a href="https://crimrxiv.com/kf">Knowledge Futures</a> (KF), a longstanding supporter of open criminology and fellow Consortium Member.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/13239789 2025-02-26T11:17:11-05:00 2025-02-26T11:17:11-05:00

<p>The <a href="https://crimrxiv.com/consortium">CrimRxiv Consortium</a>, a network of leading institutions in open criminology, has announced a groundbreaking partnership with its Member, <a href="https://crimrxiv.com/ohcp">The Oral History of Criminology Project</a> (OHCP). This collaboration marks the launch of the Consortium's innovative “research services” initiative, designed to generate revenue and support its mission. This new model aims to reduce the Consortium’s reliance on Member fees by offering valuable services to researchers and institutions. For instance, a researcher with a budget for interview transcription could contract with the Consortium, which would then subcontract the work to interested Consortium Members.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/13236508 2025-02-25T08:57:13-05:00 2025-02-26T08:51:13-05:00

<p>The <a href="https://crimrxiv.com/consortium">CrimRxiv Consortium</a>, a network of leading institutions in open criminology, has announced a groundbreaking partnership with its Member, <a href="https://crimrxiv.com/ohcp">The Oral History of Criminology Project</a> (OHCP). This collaboration marks the launch of the Consortium's innovative “research services” initiative, designed to generate revenue and support its mission. The partnership involves transcribing OHCP’s extensive catalog of interviews and publishing them on <a href="https://criminologystories.com">criminologystories.com</a> and CrimRxiv. This project serves as a prototype for future research service offerings by the Consortium. This new research services model aims to reduce the Consortium’s reliance on Member fees by offering valuable services to researchers and institutions. For instance, a researcher with a budget for interview transcription could contract with the Consortium, which would then subcontract the work to interested Consortium Members.</p> <p> </p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/13188996 2025-02-06T17:58:26-05:00 2025-02-06T17:58:26-05:00

<p>This blog presents a cost-saving initiative at Georgia State University (GSU) to reduce student textbook expenses by analyzing course materials and advocating for institutional reforms. Using scraped enrollment and bookstore data, the author’s team identified high-cost textbooks, such as a Pearson Algebra text costing students over $300,000 annually, and proposed transitioning to library-licensed or open-access alternatives. Their analysis highlights opportunities for bulk licensing deals with academic publishers (e.g., $1,000 institutional licenses replacing $30 individual purchases) or investing in faculty-created open materials, particularly for high-enrollment courses like math. The post also critiques exploitative practices, such as professors requiring self-published textbooks (e.g., a $100 Excel guide for 800 business students), which generate personal profit but lack oversight. Emphasizing GSU’s status as a low-income-serving institution, the author argues universities could market no-cost materials as both equitable and financially strategic while urging administrators to curb profiteering. The project includes publicly available dashboards and datasets to support replication at other institutions, inviting collaboration to expand cost-saving efforts beyond GSU.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/13188601 2025-02-06T16:18:20-05:00 2025-02-06T16:18:20-05:00

<p>This is an informal/personal update on the <a href="https://crimrxiv.com/consortium">CrimRxiv Consortium</a>'s initatives for 2025, written by its organizer Scott Jacques. These initiatives include providing research services (starting with transcription) and automating the addition of diamond journal articles to <a href="https://crimrxiv.com">CrimRxiv</a>. To get involved, please email us (consortium@crimrxiv.com). </p> <p>This update is cross-posted on LinkedIn, Bluesky, and Twitter/X.</p> <ul> <li>https://www.linkedin.com/company/98856502/admin/page-posts/published/</li> <li>https://bsky.app/profile/crimrxiv.com/post/3lhjyetyrmk27</li> <li>https://x.com/SJacques83/status/1887603689868743072</li> </ul>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/13100432 2025-01-03T14:47:39-05:00 2025-01-03T14:47:39-05:00

<p>This Pub has a list of criminology's diamond open-access journals. The CrimRxiv Consortium aims to make these journals bigger, better, and more impactful. One way we’ll achieve this, starting in 2025, is by aggregating and centralizing their articles on CrimRxiv.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/12689083 2024-11-26T11:19:39-05:00 2024-11-26T11:19:39-05:00

<p>The <a href="https://crimrxiv.com/consortium">CrimRxiv Consortium</a>, a network of leading institutions in open criminology, has announced its newest member: the University of Liverpool’s <a href="https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/sociology-social-policy-and-criminology/">Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology</a>. Housed in the <a href="https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/law-and-social-justice/">School of Law and Social Justice</a>, the department is renowned for its commitment to research-based knowledge that supports social justice.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/12675915 2024-11-21T09:58:12-05:00 2024-11-21T09:58:12-05:00

<p>According to analysts, a member of the crypto community has bet on the sci-hub (SCIHUB) cryptocurrency. Its name is a reference to the shadow library site of the same name. The platform provides free access to millions of scientific articles, bypassing the paid barriers of publishers. The site allows you to circumvent copyright laws. Therefore, the very existence of the project causes ethical disputes. As of the time of writing the review, there is no information about the cryptocurrency of the same name on the sci-hub website. Therefore, we cannot claim that SCIHUB has anything to do with the project. However, it is possible that the data will appear later. The fact is that the SCIHUB coin, according to geckoterminal, is only one day old. At the same time, the number of token owners has already exceeded 13,000, and the liquidity of the coin has exceeded $ 1.43 million.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/12675914 2024-11-21T09:56:04-05:00 2024-11-21T09:56:04-05:00

<p>There's a "SCIHUB" cryptocurrency but its relationship to the pirate website is not verified.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/12602086 2024-10-31T12:40:22-04:00 2024-10-31T12:40:22-04:00

<p>Qualitative researchers are expected, sometimes required, to publish their data open access. This is for the sake of science, impact, and social justice. Yet, understandably, qualitative criminologists are worried about what this means for their workload and their ability to protect subjects’ confidentiality. To be solutions-oriented, we developed an open-source Python script for anonymizing qualitative data. It uses named-entity recognition and fuzzy-rule based merging to identify and replace personally identifiable information (PII) with unique pseudonyms. This tool doesn’t eliminate the need for manual work, but it reduces the cost and associated risk. In this article, we describe and explain how our script works and how to use it. We conclude by discussing the implications for open (qualitative) criminology.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/10032026 2024-03-13T11:37:55-04:00 2024-03-14T10:02:59-04:00

<p>AI-generated video announcement</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/10031964 2024-03-13T11:33:42-04:00 2024-03-13T11:33:42-04:00

<p>The <a href="https://www.crimrxiv.com/consortium">CrimRxiv Consortium</a> will advance open criminology with <a href="https://crimrxiv.com/curation">Curation Hubs</a>: expert- and community-led Collections of already-published criminology outputs. Each Hub focuses on a criminological niche, showcasing its “best,” “exemplary,” or otherwise notable works. They’re nominated by the public; selected by a team of experts—“Curators”; supported by the Consortium. Each curated-work is framed as a Pub on <a href="https://crimrxiv.com">CrimRxiv</a> and displayed on the Hub. With this endeavor, the Consortium will increase the quantity, LIS-quality, and impact of open-criminology. As a utilitarian organization, we strive to maximize their utility for the greater good.</p> <p>CrimRxiv is powered by <a href="http://pubpub.org">PubPub</a> of <a href="https://www.knowledgefutures.org/">Knowledge Futures</a>.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/10010524 2024-03-12T11:09:56-04:00 2024-03-12T11:09:56-04:00

<p><a href="https://crimrxiv.com">CrimRxiv</a>, criminology’s global open access hub and repository, celebrated its one-year anniversary at the University of Manchester (UoM). Next month will mark the half-year anniversary of the <a href="https://crimrxiv.com/consortium">CrimRxiv Consortium</a>, a network of criminology’s leading institutions with UoM at the forefront. To commemorate CrimRxiv’s success and push ahead, the Consortium has announced its newest initiative: <a href="https://crimrxiv.com/curation">Curation Hubs</a>, expert- and community-led special collections of existing works. Each Hub highlights a different criminological niche by centralizing its most notable open-access publications, selected by experts with recommendations from anyone.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/9732872 2024-01-10T13:26:10-05:00 2024-01-10T13:26:10-05:00

<p>^{Edited by Scott Jacques | Preprint edition | Published January 7, 2024 | © 2024 | New materials are CC BY NC SA | doi: 10.21428/93b40405.fd2836f0 | ISBN forthcoming}</p> <p> </p> <p>My <em>Open Access Reader</em> is a compilation of excerpts that are open access and inform it as a subject. The excerpts are drawn from <a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/">MIT Press</a> books, republished with the open-source platform <a href="https://pubpub.org">PubPub</a>, a product of the MIT-spinoff <a href="https://www.knowledgefutures.org/">Knowledge Futures</a>. I approach the <em>Open Access Reader </em>as an ongoing experiment in computational and open access publishing. In subsequent editions, I want to increase the Reader’s quantity and quality: how much there is, and how good it is. I may add <a href="https://help.pubpub.org/pub/core-concepts#collections">Collections</a> for each book and each subject. These Collections may include ancillary OER with audio, video, and interactive features. I made an <a href="https://chat.openai.com/g/g-QO8zBJQkN-oar-companion">AI ChatBot</a>, but I haven’t figured out how to make it open access. I made a <a href="https://www.perusall.com/">Perusall</a>-based “Book Club,” but I haven’t decided how exactly to use it with this Reader. And so on. But I’m getting ahead of myself... Currently, I consider the <em>Open Access Reader </em>to be a preprint: good enough to make public, but not “final final” because edits are expected. I encourage you to publicly or privately shape the Reader by, respectively, <a href="https://oar.pubpub.org/reviews">submitting an open review</a> or <a href="mailto:me@scottjacques.us">emailing me</a>.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/8990883 2023-10-31T17:24:10-04:00 2023-10-31T17:24:10-04:00

<p>There can be 100% open access (OA) to criminology articles. It’d increase criminology’s scientificity and impact. Anything less is a social injustice. To advance open criminology, the American Society of Criminology’s (ASC) Scientific Integrity Committee hosted the <a href="https://doi.org/10.21428/cb6ab371.b8929691">Green Open Access Webinar</a>. The advertisement makes a bold proclamation: "ALL journal articles can be made open access for FREE... yes, 100% FREE." Is the proclamation true? Now? Legally? How? Who has the power? I answer these questions in this Pub. I conclude with thoughts on how to allocate scarce resources for the greatest good. ROI matters because we can't support everything; we need to choose. Money spent on gold OA could have better ROI if invested in the systematic provision of green OA. Instead of pay publishers APCs, pay the money directly to authors, editors, learned-societies, and others who can multiply the quantity and quality of OA by emphasizing what's green over gold. </p> <p>If you’d like to disagree with me, correct me, or whatever, please do! Among other ways, you can “Post a discussion” at the Pub's end or in-line. You’re also welcome to engage me on Twitter/X at <a href="https://twitter.com/sjacques83">@SJacques83</a>. (I don't have a Mastadon or Bluesky account yet, sorry; but it's on my to-do list.)</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/8893627 2023-10-16T18:30:24-04:00 2023-10-16T18:30:24-04:00

<p>The <a href="https://crimrxiv.com/consortium">CrimRxiv Consortium</a>, a network of open criminology’s leading institutions, has announced its newest Member: the <a href="https://www.acjs.org/">Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences</a> (ACJS), an association to foster professional and scholarly activities in the field of criminal justice. ACJS is the first learned-society to join the Consortium, which <a href="https://doi.org/10.21428/cb6ab371.12cdd087">launched a couple weeks ago</a> with seventeen Members from Canada, England, Germany, New Zealand, and United States. To increase the Consortium’s visibility and impact, each Member has its own “Hub” on CrimRxiv, which aggregates and centralizes their authors’ open access publications. The <a href="https://crimrxiv.com/acjs">ACJS Hub</a> will spotlight open access articles in the association’s peer-review outlets: <em>Justice Quarterly</em>, <em>The Journal of Criminal Justice Education</em>, and <em>Justice Evaluation Journal</em>.</p> <p>At the Twitter link is an announcement video made with AI, and a link to <a href="https://doi.org/10.21428/cb6ab371.6376c6e4">the press release</a>.</p> <p> </p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/8708595 2023-10-04T13:04:34-04:00 2023-10-04T13:04:34-04:00

<p><strong>This is the submission page for members of the <a href="https://crimrxiv.com/consortium">CrimRxiv Consortium</a>. They receive priority moderation with <a href="mailto:consortium@crimrxiv.com">email support</a>, among other <a href="https://www.crimrxiv.com/pub/e7xt2i0j#n8nb6em78nz">other benefits</a>. We accept papers in accordance with our <a href="https://doi.org/10.21428/cb6ab371.389f4506">Moderation Policy</a>, except: members can submit any type of criminology output—not only preprints and postprints but also, for example, datasets, preregistrations, software code, and video-recorded presentations.</strong> <strong>You may submit a paper with any intelligible and consistent format. Information on in-app editing is <a href="https://help.pubpub.org/pub/pub-editor-reference/release/9">here</a>. Please, only use this submission page if you are a member (or your submission will be rejected). Upon submission, you will receive a confirmation email followed, within a few days, by a decision letter (accept or decline). </strong></p> <p><strong>The page also has a tutorial video made with the AI program, Guidde.</strong></p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/8707634 2023-10-04T05:23:05-04:00 2023-10-04T05:23:05-04:00

<p>ATLANTA — CrimRxiv, criminology’s global open access (OA) hub and repository, has announced the <a href="https://crimrxiv.com/consortium">CrimRxiv Consortium</a>: an international, institutional network to advance open criminology for impact and social justice. The Consortium launched with seventeen Founding Members from Canada, England, Germany, New Zealand, and United States. </p> <p>To incentivize and thank institutions for their participation in the Consortium, each member receives its own “Hub” on CrimRxiv, which aggregates and centralizes their authors’ OA publications from across the internet. Other member-benefits are ...</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/8703234 2023-10-02T20:26:37-04:00 2023-10-02T20:31:01-04:00

<p>CrimRxiv, criminology’s global open access (OA) hub and repository, has announced the <a href="https://crimrxiv.com/consortium">CrimRxiv Consortium</a>: an international, institutional network to advance open criminology for impact and social justice. The Consortium launched with seventeen Founding Members from Canada, England, Germany, New Zealand, and United States. The Consortium is led by the University of Manchester (UoM) and Knowledge Futures (KF), maker of CrimRxiv’s open-source publishing platform, <a href="https://pubpub.org">PubPub</a>. </p> <p>See the tagged tweet for an AI-generated video announcement. </p> <p>For written details, see this press release: <span>https://doi.org/10.21428/cb6ab371.12cdd087.</span></p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/8644364 2023-09-29T09:49:47-04:00 2023-09-29T09:49:47-04:00

<p><a href="http://crimrxiv.com">CrimRxiv</a> accounces its membership program for institutions, the CrimRxiv Consortium. It is a network of leaders, providers, and supporters of open criminology. CrimRxiv is housed at the University of Manchester's <a href="https://crimrxiv.com/uomcriminology">Department of Criminology</a>, with support from the Library's <a href="https://crimrxiv.com/uomopenresearch">Office for Open Research</a>. CrimRxiv has always received generous support from its platform provider, <a href="https://www.knowledgefutures.org/membership">Knowledge Futures</a>. They are administiring the CrimRxiv membership program. The announcement is an AI-generated video created with Synthesia. In a few days, there will be a follow-up announcement to share the identifies of the Founding Members. Because you're the type of person who follows the OATP Primary Feed, here's a special prereveal of the participating criminology groups:</p> <ol> <li>University of Manchester, Department of Criminology</li> <li>Georgia State University, Evidence-Based Cybersecurity Research Group</li> <li>John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Research &amp; Evaluation Center</li> <li>Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security &amp; Law</li> <li>Northeastern University, Center on Crime, Race, &amp; Justice</li> <li>Simon Fraser University, School of Criminology</li> <li>Temple University, Department of Criminal Justice</li> <li>UCL, Bentham Project</li> <li>Universite of Montreal, Ecole de Criminologie</li> <li>University of Cambridge, Prisons Research Centre</li> <li>University of Georgia, Department of Sociology</li> <li>University of Missouri St. Louis, Department of Criminology &amp; Criminal Justice (CCJ)</li> <li>University of Nebraska Omaha, School of CCJ</li> <li>University of Texas at Dallas, CCJ Program</li> <li>University of Waikato, Te Puna Haumaru New Zealand Institute for Security &amp; Crime Science)</li> </ol> <p>To learn more or discuss opportunities, <a href="mailto:me@scottjacques.us">email</a> CrimRxiv’s Founder and Associate Director for Sustainability, <a href="https://scottjacques.pubpub.org">Scott Jacques</a>. To connect with Members, <a href="mailto:consortium@crimrxiv.com">email</a> the Consortium’s account. Follow them on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/crimconsortium">@CrimConsortium</a>.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/5687595 2022-10-31T09:39:25-04:00 2022-10-31T09:39:25-04:00

<p>In this article, I describe and explain a way for criminologists—as individuals, groups and, especially, as university units (e.g., colleges, departments, schools)—to increase the quantity and quality of open criminology: ask university librarians to make their outputs open access on their “unit repositories” (URs), which are unit-dedicated subpages on universities’ institutional repositories (IR). I try to advance this practice by devising and employing a metric, the “URscore,” to document, analyze, and rank criminology units’ contributions to open criminology, as prescribed. To illustrate the metric’s use, I did a study of 45 PhD-granting criminology units in the United States (US). I find almost all of them (98%) have access to an IR; less than two-thirds (62%) have a UR; less than one-third (29%) have used it this decade (up to August 11, 2022); their URs have a total of 190 open outputs from the 2020s, with 78% emanating from the top-three “most open”—per my ranking—PhD-granting criminology units in the US: those of the University of California, Irvine (with 72 open outputs), the John Jay College of Criminal Justice (with 47 such outputs), and the University of Nebraska, Omaha (with 30 such outputs). Each URscore reflects a criminology unit’s scholarly productivity and scholarly justice. I hope they see the ranking as a reward or opportunity for improvement. Toward that end, I conclude with a discussion of critical issues, instructions, and futures.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/3376760 2021-12-08T08:27:54-05:00 2021-12-08T08:27:54-05:00

<p> </p> <p><a href="https://www.researchhub.com/">ResearchHub</a> is a scientific forum where users are rewarded with an Ethereum token called ResearchCoin for openly publishing, curating, and discussing scientific papers. Our goal is to create an opportunity for any scientist to be adequately compensated for openly sharing their expertise within the academic community. A thriving community is the heart of every successful platform and ResearchHub is no different. Editors will play a key role in bootstrapping the ResearchHub community. Loosely speaking, their job will be a hybrid between an Ambassador, a moderator, and a traditional journal editor. Editors will be assigned to various hubs (analogous to scientific journals) where they will:</p> <ul> <li>Participate in scientific discussion</li> <li>Curate quality content</li> <li>Grow the community</li> </ul>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/3371265 2021-12-04T14:33:30-05:00 2021-12-04T14:33:30-05:00

<p>Embargoes are a social injustice that restrict the spread of research, reducing its impact. There is a proven solution: authors adopt a rights-retention policy. Only a small fraction of the world’s scholars are protected by such a policy. For a rights-retention policy to have maximum effect, everyone must be able to adopt it. OADAO can increase OA to scholarly articles by creating and supporting an opt-in rights retention policy for all scholars.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/3342009 2021-11-17T16:41:50-05:00 2021-11-17T16:41:50-05:00

<p>The Publishers Association, Elsevier, and Springer Nature now have the permission to ask ISPs in the UK to block specific pirate domains to prevent them from offering free access to books and scientific papers that have a price tag. These injunctions can be obtained from the High Court, and many have been approved over the years.</p> <div> </div>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/3308197 2021-10-29T10:28:38-04:00 2021-10-29T10:28:38-04:00

<p>There's a vast amount of research out there, with the volume growing rapidly with each passing day. But there's a problem. Not only is a lot of the existing literature hidden behind a paywall, but it can also be difficult to parse and make sense of in a comprehensive, logical way. What's really needed is a super-smart version of Google just for academic papers. Enter the <a href="https://archive.org/details/GeneralIndex">General Index</a>, a new database of some 107.2 million journal articles, totaling 38 terabytes of data in its uncompressed form. It spans more than 355 billion rows of text, each featuring a key word or phrase plucked from a published paper.</p> <div> </div>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/3278858 2021-10-06T11:47:12-04:00 2021-10-07T08:13:21-04:00

<p>We can’t allow certain corporations to broker research across institutions with colossal profit margins erected on the back of work conducted by researchers. What researchers need as a right in India is complete, paywall-free access to every paper published everywhere. Governments can’t entirely leave the research-publishing and dissemination enterprise entirely in the hands of for-profit journals alone, Raja Singh writes.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/3262923 2021-09-27T16:05:21-04:00 2021-09-28T15:36:24-04:00

<p>"The publishing giants have appealed for a permanent injunction against them for copyright infringement by “unauthorised hosting, reproducing, distributing, making available to the public and/or communicating to the public, or facilitating the same, of the Original Works owned by the Plaintiffs”. They have requested the court to order the Ministry of Electronics and Information and Technology and Ministry of Communi-cations and its Department of Telecommunications to issue a notification to internet and telecom service providers registered under it to block access to the sites in question.</p> <p>The hearing is listed for September 28....</p> <p>The legal representation for Sci-Hub in India began building momentum when a young lawyer in Delhi — a regular user of the site himself — decided to try reaching out to Elbakyan....He said he messaged her on Twitter but did not get a response. He then found her email ID and reached out to her there, after which she agreed to let him represent her...."</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/3261141 2021-09-26T10:22:43-04:00 2021-09-27T08:26:10-04:00

<p>Efforts to make pirate sites harder to access have resulted in two new waves of blocking in the UK. Action by Elsevier and Springer Nature now requires major ISPs to block several additional Sci-Hub-related domains while the efforts of the MPA require them to block domains that facilitate access to previously blocked sites including EZTV, SolarMovie, Icefilms, and more.</p>