Items tagged by wnik in Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) https://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/user/wnik TagTeam social RSS aggregrator Abstract for a seminar on Philosophy of Science conducted at Warsaw University of Technology coordinated by an academic blog, Cafe Aleph: http://marciszewski.eu/?page_id=8381 (entry number 1 for meetings in 2019/20) Speech considers the notion of information on a general level confronting the trading good approaches and common good intepretations. With a basis in the thought of Tadeusz Kotarbiński the results are provided in relation to both abstract and concrete ethics. Thu, 16 Jan 2020 00:47:00 -0500 http://stac.calculemus.org/pdf/Seminarium-2019-20/Aksjologia%20cyfrowego%20komunizmu-abstrakt.pdf oa.polish oa.philosophy oa.ethics oa.theory oa.ssh oa.humanities The one-day workshop event “Practical perspectives on scientific publishing” is organized to celebrate 1000 scientific journals aggregated in the Biblioteka Nauki (“Library of Science”), a service developed at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling, University of Warsaw. The Library of Science provides open access to full-text articles from Polish scientific journals indexed in disciplinary databases: AGRO (biological, agricultural, forestry and veterinary sciences), BazTech (technological sciences), CEJSH (The Central European Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities), DML-PL (mathematics), PSJD (Polish Scientific Journals Database; physical, chemical, medical, pharmaceutical, health and sport sciences). Fri, 11 Oct 2019 01:26:00 -0400 http://pon.icm.edu.pl/1000/about/ oa.new oa.infrastructure oa.poland oa.journals oa.events Review of Plan S related statements published by cOAlition S participants and basic information about their Open Access policy.  Fri, 28 Sep 2018 05:33:00 -0400 https://otwartanauka.pl/blog/1151-kto-przyjal-plan-s oa.new oa.plan_s oa.polish oa.funding oa.copyright oa.assessment oa.funders.public oa.funders oa.europe oa.mandates oa.policies After two weeks from joining Coalition S as one of 11 participants, the research funding agency of Poland made the first official statement. Not much detail was given (NCN has no open acces policy as of now), only the publishing aspect was addressed. Reform of quality assessment part of Plan S is in direct opposition to current policy developments in Poland where just recently the dependency on ImpactFactor was drastically increased. Thu, 27 Sep 2018 00:20:00 -0400 http://naukawpolsce.pap.pl/aktualnosci/news%2C31135%2Cblocki-w-walce-o-otwarty-dostep-do-wynikow-badan-musimy-przyjac-wspolny oa.new oa.statement oa.plan_s oa.polish "What has caught my attention is how often I am asked to justify a recommendation that a professional society look into the creation of an OA service. In my experience (which I do not pretend to be comprehensive), OA is a tough sell. The officers of professional societies are often skeptical about the claims for OA and need to be persuaded that it is good for science and good for their own particular society. If you are going to try to make a case to a group of accomplished individuals whose stock in trade is to study all assertions with great care, you have to toss the abstractions out the window and bring some facts to bear on the situation." Mon, 18 Jun 2018 06:09:00 -0400 https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2015/01/05/making-a-case-for-open-access/ oa.societies oa.negotiations oa.discussions oa.gold oa.hybrid oa.journals oa.policies "Today, in looking at the scholarly publishing sector, equity markets are focused on the European national-level consortial negotiations. If analysts are not surprised at the strong rhetoric about cancelling Big Deal packages that has emerged from the university sectors, they are troubled to see entire nations actually canceling their licenses. They have watched publishing revenue from a major country like Germany disappear all at once from one major publisher’s income statement. And they want to know whether this “contagion” will spread to North America. My view is that, while the germs are circulating, at least in the near term, publishers are unlikely to face a global pandemic." Mon, 18 Jun 2018 05:48:00 -0400 https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2018/06/18/will-european-contagion-spread/ oa.new oa.north_america oa.growth oa.offsets oa.publishers oa.comment oa.hei oa.budgets oa.germany oa.sci-hub oa.economics_of oa.funders oa.canada oa.funding oa.libraries oa.librarians oa.cancellations oa.consortia oa.big_deals oa.usa oa.policies oa.negotiations oa.europe oa.guerrilla "What happens if open access publishing becomes the norm?" Mon, 18 Jun 2018 05:04:00 -0400 https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2013/08/01/open-access-and-professional-societies/ oa.negative oa.green oa.gold oa.societies oa.business_models oa.policies oa.libraries oa.repositories oa.journals "The [Open Academic Publishing] report, commissioned by the Open science and research initiative (ATT) of the Ministry of Education and Culture [of Finland], evaluated the implementation of open science principles in the practices and policies of key international publishers and developed a systematic evaluation framework, or scorecard, for benchmarking." Thu, 17 May 2018 03:56:00 -0400 https://openscience.fi/-/openness-of-academic-publishers-evaluated-for-the-first-time oa.finland oa.evaluation oa.publishers oa.transparency oa.open_science oa.principles oa.implementation oa.gold oa.reports oa.journals oa.policies Abstract: Open access (OA) publishing, whereby authors, their institutions, or their granting bodies pay or provide a repository through which peer‐reviewed work is available online for free, is championed as a model to increase the number of citations per paper and disseminate results widely, especially to researchers in developing countries. We compared the number of citations of OA and non‐OA papers in six journals and four books published since 2000 to test whether OA increases number of citations overall and increases citations made by authors in developing countries. After controlling for type of paper (e.g., review or research paper), length of paper, authors’ citation profiles, number of authors per paper, and whether the author or the publisher released the paper in OA, OA had no statistically significant influence on the overall number of citations per journal paper. Journal papers were cited more frequently if the authors had published highly cited papers previously, were members of large teams of authors, or published relatively long papers, but papers were not cited more frequently if they were published in an OA source. Nevertheless, author‐archived OA book chapters accrued up to eight times more citations than chapters in the same book that were not available through OA, perhaps because there is no online abstracting service for book chapters. There was also little evidence that journal papers or book chapters published in OA received more citations from authors in developing countries relative to those journal papers or book chapters not published in OA. For scholarly publications in conservation biology, only book chapters had an OA citation advantage, and OA did not increase the number of citations papers or chapters received from authors in developing countries. Mon, 14 May 2018 03:55:00 -0400 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2010.01509.x oa.advantage oa.negative oa.biology oa.green oa.gold oa.books oa.citations oa.impact oa.south oa.repositories oa.journals oa.policies oa.studies oa.empirical The European Commission (EC) has revised its Recommendation on access to, and preservation of, scientific information. The revised guidance was published on 25 April 2018, as part of the Digital Single Market package, and lays out the blueprint for policies on open access to publications and data that the EU Member States can put in place. The original Recommendation adopted in 2012 needed to be revised in the context of the developments in practices and policies in Open Science, as well as in connection with the new provisions in the revised Public Sector Information Directive (PSI) and the preparation of the next Framework Programme for Research and Innovation. Sat, 12 May 2018 03:54:00 -0400 https://era.gv.at/object/news/4007 oa.new oa.austria oa.open_science oa.policies.funders oa.policies.funders.data oa.policies.data oa.mandates oa.mandates.data oa.mining oa.benefits oa.implementation oa.access oa.preservation oa.infrastructure oa.recommendations oa.funders.public oa.policies oa.funders oa.europe Abstract: The present study aims to review the quality of open‐access nursing journals listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals that published papers in 2013 with a nursing focus, written in English, and were freely accessible. Each journal was reviewed in relation to their publisher, year of commencement, number of papers published in 2013, fee for publication, indexing, impact factor, and evidence of requirements for ethics and disclosure statements. The quality of the journals was assessed by impact factors and the requirements for indexing in PubMed. A total of 552 were published in 2013 in the 19 open‐access nursing journals that met the inclusion criteria. No journals had impact factors listed in Web of Knowledge, but three had low Scopus impact factors. Only five journals were indexed with PubMed. The quality of the 19 journals included in the review was evaluated as inferior to most subscription‐fee journals. Mental health nursing has some responsibility to the general public, and in particular, consumers of mental health services and their families, for the quality of papers published in open‐access journals. The way forward might involve dual‐platform publication or a process that enables assessment of how research has improved clinical outcomes. Fri, 11 May 2018 03:53:00 -0400 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/inm.12098 oa.nursing oa.sufficiency oa.doaj oa.quality oa.gold oa.impact oa.jif oa.medicine oa.journals oa.reviews oa.metrics Abstract: An open‐access journal allows free online access to its articles, obtaining revenue from fees charged to submitting authors or from institutional support. Using panel data on science journals, we are able to circumvent problems plaguing previous studies of the impact of open access on citations. In contrast to the huge effects found in these previous studies, we find a more modest effect: moving from paid to open access increases cites by 8% on average in our sample. The benefit is concentrated among top‐ranked journals. In fact, open access causes a statistically significant reduction in cites to the bottom‐ranked journals in our sample, leading us to conjecture that open access may intensify competition among articles for readers' attention, generating losers as well as winners. (JEL L17, O33) Fri, 11 May 2018 03:52:00 -0400 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ecin.12064 oa.citations oa.advantage oa.benefits oa.econometrics oa.biology oa.ecology oa.quality oa.negative oa.gold oa.impact oa.conversions oa.journals oa.emprical oa.studies "Neither state nor federal law is copyrightable. Nevertheless, standards development organizations—from the American Society of Sanitary Engineers to the National Wood Window and Door Association—insist otherwise, having poured resources into developing long, technical regulations because the government didn’t have the expertise to do so. Now, state and federal laws simply reference these industry codes, and allow non-profits to charge for hefty books." Fri, 11 May 2018 03:51:00 -0400 https://newrepublic.com/article/112871/carl-malamud-lawsuit-fight-make-building-regulations-truly-fee oa.copyright oa.regulations oa.standards oa.usa oa.trial oa.activism oa.politics oa.lobbying oa.litigation oa.law "This registry exists to help people discover and share datasets that are available via AWS [Amazon Web Services] resources." Thu, 10 May 2018 09:14:00 -0400 https://registry.opendata.aws/ oa.data oa.repositories.data oa.repositories oa.repositories.data oa.repositories oa.registries oa.discoverability oa.data oa.cloud oa.aws oa.amazon Abstract: A content analysis of the coverage of the major approaches to early childhood education in the early childhood research journals, published between 2010 and 2014, that are early childhood research oriented and have free online access were investigated. Among 21 journals in early childhood education, two journals were selected for the content analysis of the major approaches to early childhood education: Early Childhood Research and Practice and International Research in Early Childhood Education. These early childhood journals are the only journals that are fully online and available for free. The results showed that Head Start was the most frequently used approach that appeared in these journals followed by Reggio Emilia. The theory of Internet Information Gatekeepers guided this current research's theoretical framework. A brief overview of each approach was provided along with the significance of the study. Concerns about the ways approaches were mentioned in the studies were discussed. (Early Child Development and Care: Vol 186, No 11) Thu, 10 May 2018 03:49:00 -0400 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03004430.2015.1126833 oa.pedagogy oa.children oa.psychology oa.education oa.meta-analysis oa.gold oa.journals oa.ssh "PLOS, in collaboration with eLife, the Royal Society and other major publishers, signed an Open Letter that commits publishers to following best practices when collecting, processing, and displaying ORCID iDs. An ORCID iD distinguishes authors from others with similar names by providing a unique identifier that permanently links all research published by that author to his or her ORCID iD —even if their name has changed over time or has been spelled differently in various contexts." Thu, 10 May 2018 03:47:00 -0400 http://blogs.plos.org/plos/2016/01/author-credit-plos-orcid-update/ oa.plos oa.orcid oa.identification oa.id oa.authorship oa.cooperation oa.guidelines oa.authors "The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), and the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) are scholarly organizations that have seen an increase in the number, and broad range in the quality, of membership applications. Our organizations have collaborated to identify principles of transparency and best practice for scholarly publications and to clarify that these principles form the basis of the criteria by which suitability for membership is assessed by COPE, DOAJ and OASPA, and part of the criteria on which membership applications are evaluated by WAME." Thu, 10 May 2018 00:27:00 -0400 http://www.wame.org/about/principles-of-transparency-and-best-practice oa.publishing oa.medicine oa.cope oa.doaj oa.oaspa oa.wame oa.guidelines