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Open knowledge enthusiast. Creates and maintains. Director of Open Access Programmes at Arcadia Fund.

Recognises that access to knowledge is a human right.

Software Sustainability Institute Fellow (2016 Inauguration)
Panton Fellow for Open Data (2012)

Current distro: MX Linux

#OpenAccess #OpenData #OpenSource #OpenStandards #OpenResearch #Wikipedia #Wikidata #iNaturalist #CreativeCommons #RightsRetention #Preprints #OpenPeerReview #RecordOfVersions #Rstats #DiamondOA #DORA tfr

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rmounce, to random
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Anyone know of good tools for annotating trails on top of OpenStreetMap data and then viewing the resulting trail + map data interactively, but OFFLINE, on an iPhone? Is there a video guide on how to do this?

rmounce,
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to answer my own question (lol!), GraphHopper seems to offer a lot of what I want: https://graphhopper.com/maps/?profile=car&layer=Omniscale

I've also seen BRouter recommended: https://brouter.de/brouter-web/

You can create the trail you want to walk - despite having never been there before (in advance), then just download it as a .GPX file and open/use it on your mobile, completely offline in a suitable app e.g. OsmAnd

#OpenStreetMaps #Trails #HikePlanning

rmounce, to random
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TODAY: 167 days since December 1st 2023

167 days since the 'key' subscription-access chemistry journal called Heterocycles went offline.

Still no sign of it emerging anywhere online 🤷‍♂️

This is a journal of 17,000+ articles which have been cited over 164,000 times. Not some obscuro unimportant journal.

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Just got off a call with the editor-in-chief of a journal that moved from paywall-based publishing with Cambridge University Press to university-hosted independent publishing under a diamond OA model (no APCs) with PKP/OJS.

TL;DR it's going great.

Submissions are up, quality has been maintained, and now over 50% of papers have one or more Global South-based authors (previously ~10%). @OpenAlex data]

rmounce, to random
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My daily routine:

1.) go to the CLOCKSS triggered content page: https://clockss.org/triggered-content/

2.) Ctrl+F "Heterocycles"
0/0 matches

  1. ) sigh

Can we pretty please have access to the 17,000+ chemistry articles published in Heterocycles? Will we really have to (pointlessly) wait until June 1st 2024 before this stuff becomes available online again?

rmounce,
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step 4.) click on this DOI: https://doi.org/10.3987/com-23-14859

step 5.) see if it will take me to “Synthesis of Arylideneisoxazol-5-ones Catalyzed by Sodium Cyclamate” authored by Ziba Daroughezadeh and Hamzeh Kiyani and published in Heterocycles in 2023, pp. 1187-1197

(I live in fear that in a few days time that DOI will resolve to a ScienceDirect / Wiley / Springer landing page, signifying that the journal has been bought and transferred, rather than released via CLOCKSS)

rmounce,
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I can also confirm that no notice regarding Heterocycles has yet appeared on the NISO 'Transfer Alerting Service' RSS feed: https://journaltransfer.issn.org/

a near complete vacuum of information about what is going to happen about the 17,000+ articles trapped in this journal 🤷‍♂️ 🤡 🙄

solalnathan, to academia
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Isn't it weird that acceptance rate is a thing we look for in a conference/journal?

Publishing a paper should not be competitive like "we take the top 20% paper", it should be "we take all papers that are good enough according to our standards". Sometimes it can be a very low or very high number depending on the quality of the paper submitted.

@academicchatter @phdstudents

rmounce,
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@solalnathan @TEG @academicchatter @phdstudents

It's also interesting to note that rejection/acceptance rate has no correlation with the Journal Impact Factor™ (but then JIF is also a rather silly and dubious calculation too, so I'm less certain about what the non-correlation really tells us. Noteable nonetheless, particularly for JIF-worshippers of which I am not one)

https://rossmounce.co.uk/2016/01/15/why-do-we-rejoice-in-rejecting-perfectly-valid-research/

rmounce, to random
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Nice to see Cambridge University Libraries urge the use of open (non-proprietary) file formats:

"...we need to make sure the data files can be found and used by anyone at any time, forever. Ideally, this means using open file formats where possible..."

https://unlockingresearch-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=3960

rmounce, to random
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Bravo: University of Lorraine (France), cutting ‘big deals’ with large commercial publishers & reinvesting the money saved in various open science / open access initiatives

rmounce, to random
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This is big news: https://library.harvard.edu/about/news/2024-04-23/harvard-library-launching-harvard-open-journals-program

rmounce, to random
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At least 117 publications in @joss mentioning the string "National Science Foundation"

...now obviously there's a bit of further work to do, to distinguish between the Swiss National Science Foundation and the U.S National Science Foundation and the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka but it's clear to me that there's a lot of funded research in JOSS.

rmounce,
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am planning to demonstrate just how much funded research is in JOSS, in order to demonstrate to funders just how much research they themselves have funded(!), that would be ignored if they just used Web of Science, or Scopus to evaluate the research they fund!!!

rmounce,
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@crawfordsm might take me a few weekends to get the funder analysis done, but of course I'd be happy to share my assertions that paper X acknowledges funder Y, as open data, when I'm done.

I'll ponder about ReSA. I'm very much coming at this from an open access to research angle.

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New to me (learning about the Finnish research ecoystem 🇫🇮 ): TJNK

The Committee for Public Information (TJNK) is an expert body attached to the Ministry of Education and Culture. It follows progress in research, arts and technology and the development of knowledge in Finland and abroad.

https://tjnk.fi/en

rmounce, to random
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I really wish I had access to a dump of all the article PDFs from the journal Heterocycles. The layout of the publisher-version PDFs is very simple, a dream for text & data mining.

I would love to snip out all the acknowledgements sections. Most articles appear to be grant funded research e.g.

"This work was supported by Quattromed HTI Laborid OÜ, Estonian Science Targeted Projects No SF 0180032s12, Estonian Science Council (IUT20-17) and the Estonian Science Foundation Grants no. 8794."

rmounce, to random
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Another interesting idea... what is the coverage of the vanished journal 'Heterocycles' in Sci-Hub?

Apparently only 36.7% according to the Sci-Hub Stats Browser: https://greenelab.github.io/scihub/#/journal/25864

rmounce, to random
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Are paywalled, subscription access journals financially sustainable?

(A question no-one seems to ask enough...)

I've just seen that a paywalled, subscription access chemistry journal called 'Heterocycles' has gone kaput.

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/a-key-chemistry-journal-disappeared-from-the-web-others-are-at-risk/4019265.article

All those folx asking questions about open access journals might want to ask the same questions about paywalled, subscription journals too - that's all I'm saying!

rmounce,
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the journal in question here was indexed in Web of Science, it had a Journal Impact Factor™ ... that didn't save it.

Next time you see someone expressing extreme skepticism about whether a particular open access journal or preprint server is financially sustainable or not, please remind them that NOTHING is guaranteed to be financially sustainable forever. All things can fail, including well-regarded subscription journals.

rmounce,
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mostly thinking of articles like this that posit journal disappearance as something that is confined to open access journals https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02610-z

rmounce,
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fortunately the @internetarchive
has copies of some of the journal content, here: https://fatcat.wiki/container/qzgbkg535nfnxdf6axotjixoim

rmounce, to random
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Open Access and @openlibhums discussed in the London Review of Books (LRB)! https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n07/william-davies/antimarket

"When it’s capitalism that’s the problem, and not markets, the only alternative is post-capitalism"

rmounce, to random
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Very much enjoying seeing all the Professional Publisher™ reactions to the Gates Foundation Policy Refresh 2025.

You reap what you sow.

Stephen Colbert eating poporn whilst wearing 3D glasses with a hint of a smile on his face.

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“Gates Foundation Collaborates with F1000 to Launch Verified Preprint Platform”

given the issues with other preprint servers, I think this is an interesting move. I hope Gates Foundation will be able to learn from the past mistakes of other preprint servers?

https://www.f1000.com/verixiv/

rmounce,
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@brembs @juancommander I’m waiting for the day when Microsoft (more formally) enters the arena of academic publishing. GitHub journals like @joss are superb. If we could get Microsoft’s marketing muscle behind it, it’d certainly be one way to disrupt the current oligopoly of academic publishing. Bit of ‘out of the frying pan, into the fire’ about it that idea though. It’s not like I actually like Microsoft 🤡 but could that really be any worse than Els/Wiley/SN ?

Edent, to opensource
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🆕 blog! “Are there any modern closed-source programming languages?”

At a recent OpenUK meetup, one of the participants declared that Open Source had comprehensively won. While businesses might not always release their proprietary source code, 100% of everything they wrote used an open source programming language. I wondered how true that was. You …

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/04/are-there-any-modern-closed-source-programming-languages/
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rmounce,
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@Edent Microsoft’s “PowerBI” is proprietary and pushed on people in business/office settings 🙃

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