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rmounce, 4 months ago to random

🚨 SIGNIFICANT, POSITIVE ANNOUNCEMENT ALERT 🚨

The European Mathmatical Society, working with research libraries, have found a way to make ALL of the research journals they publish open access, without the need for author-side fees (no APCs!). Bravo @EuroMathSoc

https://ems.press/updates/2024-02-06-2024-s2o-announcement

#S2O #SubscribeToOpen #OpenAccess #NoAPCs

rmounce, 10 months ago to random

Quite enjoying this summer of discontent with large commercial academic publishers https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/another-wiley-journal-board-resigns-after-month-long-strike

#DiamondOA not #RipOffOA

rmounce, 1 month ago to random

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]

#OpenAccess #DiamondOA #OJS #NoAPCs

rmounce, 1 year ago to random

BIG preprint just dropped:
"Wikipedia and open access"

https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.13945

"We find that open-access articles are extensively and increasingly more cited in Wikipedia. What is more, they show a 15% higher likelihood of being cited in Wikipedia when compared to closed-access articles, after controlling for confounding factors. This open-access citation effect is particularly strong for articles with low citation counts, including recently published ones."

HT @oatp
#OpenAccess #Wikipedia

rmounce, 4 months ago to random

Reference Coverage Analysis of OpenAlex compared to Web of Science and Scopus [Submitted on 29 Jan 2024] https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.16359

BOOM!

#OpenData

rmounce, 2 months ago to random

Reminder: MIT Libraries have been out of contract with Elsevier for four years now.

Bravo MIT!

More like this please. Paying the ransom only encourages the robber-barons to crank-up the ransom price the next year. We need to break the cycle. Don't feed the monster.

rmounce, 1 month ago to random

Bravo: University of Lorraine (France), cutting ‘big deals’ with large commercial publishers & reinvesting the money saved in various open science / open access initiatives #OPERAS2024

rmounce, 6 months ago to random

So much journal flipping to open access going on (!!)

• MIT Press journal flipping (shift+OPEN): https://mitpress.mit.edu/shiftopen/

• Open Library of Humanities: https://www.openlibhums.org/site/academics/journal-applications-to-join-the-olh/

• 50+ journals opening via S2O with MUSE in 2025: https://about.muse.jhu.edu/muse/s2o-participants

• 51 Annual Reviews journals (via S2O)

• 5 Biochemical Society journals in 2024 (via S2O)

• 2 AIP & 2 Edinburgh UP journals in 2024 (via S2O)

#OpenAccess #WithoutAPCs

rmounce, 6 months ago to random

Terribly confusing headline here. The journal was (formerly) diamond open access (no author-side fees), and recently changed to an APC-OA model. The editorial mutiny is a rejection of the APC model. The editors are unhappy with the APCs, not with diamond https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/mass-resignations-diamond-journal-over-ps2500-author-fees

#OpenAccess

rmounce, 6 months ago to random

Haven't blogged in a long long time.

But I just about found time tonight to write a tiny bit more about PCI Registered Reports (@pcirr) and a recent peer-review experience that made me realise the community need for PCI Registered Reports:
https://rossmounce.co.uk/2023/11/19/kudos-to-pci-registered-reports/

#OpenScience #Metaresearch #PeerReview #ExperimentalDesign #RiskOfBias

rmounce, 6 months ago to random

JFC.

"JOSS is not currently included in the Web of Science / Clarivate master list of journals. This is a problem because my employer's annual salary review process only considers articles that are indexed by Web of Science. "

https://github.com/openjournals/joss/issues/1283

How dumb does an employer have to be to only count Web of Science indexed articles as 'worthy' of consideration. 🤮

This is Exhibit A in how some research institutions have outsourced important responsibilities to private-equity firms 😡

rmounce, 4 months ago to random

How on earth is Elsevier’s ‘Journal of Cleaner Production’ a “highly-ranked” journal title. https://retractionwatch.com/2024/02/05/no-data-no-problem-undisclosed-tinkering-in-excel-behind-economics-paper/

If you’ve ever read typical papers in this journal 😬 you’ll know what I mean. One really has to wonder about journal rankings. Levels of fraud & sloppiness seem to abound in “highly-ranked” ones.

We need to start looking beyond “highly-ranked” journals. And actually read papers, data & code

rmounce, 11 months ago to random

The Copyright Anxiety Study (research)

A survey for professionals in the UK higher education sector which is open until 18 August 2023.

More information about it & how to take part here: https://copyrightliteracy.org/research/copyright-anxiety-study/

#Copyright #CopyrightAnxiety #ChillingEffects

rmounce, 5 months ago to random

🚨🚨 GROUNDBREAKING NEW FINDING ALERT 🚨🚨

"As the main result, we find that OA is associated with higher citation diversity, i.e., OPEN outputs receive more diverse citations as compared to CLOSED outputs. We refer to this phenomenon as OA citation diversity advantage."

full article ▶️
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-023-04894-0

#OpenAccess #OAisForEveryone #Diversity

rmounce, 1 month ago to random

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

#ResponsibleResearch #OpenScience

rmounce, 2 months ago to random

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

You reap what you sow.

#Profiteering #LackOfValueAdd

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

rmounce, 2 months ago to random

“ Who loses when scientific research is locked behind paywalls?

Announcing our expanded policy for open access to scientific research, after a decade of experiences and learnings.”

https://www.gatesfoundation.org/ideas/articles/research-paywall-open-access

#OpenAccess #NoAPCs

rmounce, 1 month ago to random

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.

#ResearchEvaluation #ScopusBlindspot #WoSblindspot

rmounce, 1 month ago to random

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

#OpenAccess

rmounce, 1 month ago to random

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

#RDM #ResearchDataManagement #OpenFormats #OpenResearch

rmounce, 29 days ago to random

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.

#BrokenAccess #Heterocycles

rmounce, 2 months ago to random

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, 25 days ago to random

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, 1 month ago to random

My daily routine:

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

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

3. ) 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?

#Heterocycles #CLOCKSS