On Monday the Rogue Scholar science blog archive launched a dedicated API. Today I am reporting on the first Jupyter notebook using that API to generate an overlay blog post. An <strong> overlay blog post </strong> applies the idea of an <strong> overlay journal </strong> to science blog posts, and the Rogue Scholar API – in combination with content that has an open license (CC-BY) – makes that easy.

This week (October 19-23) is Open Access Week: The following video from SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing &amp;

Last night, I did a Twitter interview with Open Access Nigeria (@OpenAccessNG). To make it easy to follow in real time, I created a list whose only members were me and OA Nigeria. But because Twitter lists posts in reverse order, and because each individual tweet is encumbered with so much chrome, it’s rather an awkward way to read a sustained argument. So here is a transcript of those tweets, only lightly edited. They are in bold;

Auch 2023 findet (wie schon in den vergangenen Jahren) wieder die internationale Open Access Week statt. Vom 23. bis 29. Oktober gibt es diverse Veranstaltungen zum Thema „ Community over Commercialization“ . Das Open-Access-Büro Berlin stellt eine Übersicht von Aktionen an Berliner und Brandenburger Einrichtungen  im Rahmen der #OAWeek zusammen.

Earlier this year, the ImpactStory team of Heather Piwowar and Jason Priem launched Unpaywall, a new browser extension that helps users find free, easy-to-access research. Since officially launching in April, Unpaywall has been installed by over 85,000 users who have collectively made over 75 million requests.

Embracing identity in Peer Review The COVID-19 pandemic has brought into stark focus is the importance of both a speedy dissemination of research (something our participation in the C19 Rapid Review Consortium has tried to tackle), and the need to be able to trust the validity of this information.

Auftaktveranstaltung der Reihe „Quo vadis offene Wissenschaft“ am 24. Oktober 2023 Eine Nachlese zur Veranstaltung findet sich hier: https://doi.org/10.59350/yy5kk-3tz25 Termin: 24. Oktober 2023, 16:00–17:45 Uhr Ort: Hörsaal des Zuse Instituts Berlin, Takustraße 7, 14195 Berlin und Livestream Veranstaltende:

Last April, Martin Fenner launched Rogue Scholar, an archive of science blogs aiming to index full-text of blog posts, establish a full-text search, and register DOIs and metadata for all posts.

Despite growing interest in Open Access (OA) to scholarly literature, there is an unmet need for large-scale, up-to-date, and reproducible studies assessing the prevalence and characteristics of OA. We address this need using oaDOI, an open online service that determines OA status for 67 million articles. We use three samples, each of 100,000 articles, to investigate OA in three populations: (1) all journal articles assigned a Crossref DOI, (2) recent journal articles indexed in Web of Science, and (3) articles viewed by users of Unpaywall, an open-source browser extension that lets users find OA articles using oaDOI. We estimate that at least 28% of the scholarly literature is OA (19M in total) and that this proportion is growing, driven particularly by growth in Gold and Hybrid. The most recent year analyzed (2015) also has the highest percentage of OA (45%). Because of this growth, and the fact that readers disproportionately access newer articles, we find that Unpaywall users encounter OA quite frequently: 47% of articles they view are OA. Notably, the most common mechanism for OA is not Gold, Green, or Hybrid OA, but rather an under-discussed category we dub Bronze: articles made free-to-read on the publisher website, without an explicit Open license. We also examine the citation impact of OA articles, corroborating the so-called open-access citation advantage: accounting for age and discipline, OA articles receive 18% more citations than average, an effect driven primarily by Green and Hybrid OA. We encourage further research using the free oaDOI service, as a way to inform OA policy and practice.