Item 1 : With his new piece at the Guardian, “Persistent myths about open access scientific publishing”, Mike continues to be a thorn in the side of exploitative commercial publishers, who just can’t seem to keep their facts straight.
Die Europäische Kommission hat diese Tage die Ergebnisse einer Konsultation zur Zugänglichkeit und Erhaltung wissenschaftlicher Publikationen und Forschungsdaten veröffentlicht (PDF). Die Ergebnisse der Umfrage sprechen eine deutliche Sprache: 84 % der Befragten widersprechen der Aussage „there is no access problem to scientific publications in Europe“ zu. Desweiteren widersprechen 87 % der Aussage “there is no access problem for
I wrote yesterday that Open Access had been the front-page story in the Guardian . Thanks to Mark Wainwright of the Open Knowledge Foundation, I now have photos of both the front cover and the double-page inside spread: For anyone who doesn’t know, the Guardian is one of the four “broadsheets” or “qualities” among Britain’s national daily newspapers.
These have been a crazy few days for open access.
Folks — important news on Research Councils UK’s new draft open access policy. A while back I wrote to RCUK asking when the deadline for submissions is, and I did eventually hear back from Jane Wakefield, Press and Communications Manager. The deadline is Tuesday 10th April — not today, as I’d originally thought thanks to a game of Chinese whispers.
Im Juni 2011 vereinbarten die Max-Planck-Gesellschaft MPG, das Howard Hughes Medical Institute (USA) und der Wellcome Trust (UK), gemeinsam die Herausgabe eines Open-Access-Journals mit dem Titel eLife aus dem Bereich der Biomedizin/Life Sciences zu unterstützen.
The story so far … Nature Precedings is, or was, a preprint server, somewhat in the spirit of an arXiv for biology. It describes, or described, itself as “a permanent, citable archive for pre-publication research and preliminary findings”. This is a very useful thing.
Tonight, I sent my submission to Research Councils UK in response to their call for comments on the recently issued docment RCUK Proposed Policy on Access to Research Outputs . I am now posting my comments publicly.
Just a quick note that I’m the interview subject in the P.S.I.O.N podcast this week. P.S.I.O.N is the Paediatric Surgery International Online Network — an area far outside my expertise, but of course what we talked about was open access rather than paediatric surgery.
As a child I was very clear I wanted to be a scientist. I am not sure exactly where the idea came from. In part I blame Isaac Asimov but it must have been a combination of things. I can’t remember not having a clear idea of wanting to go into research.