In der im September veröffentlichten Open-Access-Strategie des Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) hat das Forschungsministerium bereits angekündigt Open Access als „Grundprinzip” in der eigenen Forschungsförderung zu verankern. Der genaue Wortlaut der Open-Access-Richtlinie wurde in der Strategie jedoch noch offen gehalten.
Wie wird sich ein globaler Wechsel zu Gold OA basierend auf Article Processing Charges (APCs) finanziell auf forschungsintensive Universitäten auswirken? Die mit einem 800’000$-Grant der Mellon-Foundation unterstützte Studie “Pay it Foward” (185 Seiten) ging dieser Frage an den Beispielen der grossen nordamerikanischen Universitäten British Columbia, California, Harvard und Ohio State nach.
Forget Movember – with all the cool open brain science activities happening at GigaScience and the upcoming Society for Neuroscience (SfN) 2016 meeting in San Diego (November 12-16), we are naming it Neuro-November!
The interview that I did for Jisc was conducted via Skype, by the very able Michelle Pauli. We talked for some time, and obviously much of what was said had to be cut for length (and no doubt some repetition). To my pleasant surprise, though, Michelle prepared a complete transcript of our talk before the cutting started. So in the tradition of DVD movies, I am now able to offer the Deleted Scenes.
A few years ago, we started the web-site Who Needs Access? to highlight some of the many ways that people outside academia want and need access to published scholarly works: fossil preparators, small businesses, parents of children with rare diseases, developing-world entrepreneurs, disability rights campaigners and many more.
It’s open access week! As part of their involvement with OA Week, Jisc interviewed me. You can read the interview here. A brief taster: Read the full interview here.
Etwas verzögert der Hinweis auf die jüngst veröffentlichte Open-Access-Strategie des Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF). Auszug aus der Pressemitteilung des Ministeriums: Neben diesem Vorhaben werden in der zwölfseitigen Strategieschrift (PDF) weitere Maßnahmen des BMBF zur Förderung von Open Access beschrieben. Wisspub-Autor Marco Tullney hat die Strategie im TIB-Blog ausführlich kommentiert.
Long time readers may remember the stupid contortions I had to go through in order to avoid giving the Geological Society copyright in my 2010 paper about the history of sauropod research, and how the Geol. Soc. nevertheless included a fraudulent claim of copyright ownership in the published version. The way I left it back in 2010, my wife, Fiona, was the copyright holder.
Nach einer öffentlichen Kommentierungsphase ist nun der umfangreiche Auftragsreport der Harvard Library zur Konvertierung von Journals zu Open Access online verfügbar: Solomon, David, J. Mikael Laakso, and Bo-Christer Björk (authors). Peter Suber (editor). 2016.
We’re delighted to announce that the Academy of Medical Sciences has joined Europe PMC as a new funder, bringing the total funders to 27. The Academy of Medical Sciences represents the diverse spectrum of medical science – from basic research through clinical application to healthcare delivery. Their mission is to promote medical science and its translation into benefits for society.