The Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU) has announced a Green Open Access Deal with Wolters Kluwer: “The parties have agreed that academic articles from these 27 journals will be eligible for publishing in the public domain 6 to 12 months after the date of their publication on Navigator and Wolters Kluwer’s other platforms.” The agreement covers 27 law journals.
Zu: Safiya Umoja Noble (2018). Algorithms of Oppression. How Search Engines Reinforce Racism . – New York : New York University Press, 2018 Karsten Schuldt Technologie ist nicht neutral. Ist das neu? Technologie und Algorithmen sind nicht neutral und auch nicht einfach reine Widerspiegelungen gesellschaftlicher Verhältnisse. Was an Technologie entwickelt wird und was nicht;
Sophie Schneider fährt nach Graz. Jedenfalls hoffen wir als LIBREAS, dass sie das tut. Und wir unterstützen sie mit Freude und mit allem, was wir bieten können, also unserem Reisestipendium. Denn ihr Motivationsschreiben für das von uns ausgelobte Reisestipendium für den Besuch der Open-Access-Tage 2018 überzeugte hat uns außerordentlich.
Zu: Michael Knoche (2018): Die Idee der Bibliothek und ihre Zukunft (2. Auflage). Göttingen: Wallstein, 2018 Karsten Schuldt „Die Idee der Bibliothek und ihre Zukunft“ ist ein Buch, welches stark an Polemik, aber inhaltlich weder überzeugend noch konsistent ist.
While Finland entered into a nationwide consortium with the publishing house Elsevier, the neighbouring country Sweden did not take this step. After twenty years of business relationships with Elsevier, the Bibsam Consortium decided not to renew the agreement with the scientific publisher. Bibsam wants to support the Swedish government’s requirement to publish all scientific output of the country in Open Access by 2026 – without embargoes.
Participating in the Mozilla Global Sprint is somewhat of an annual ritual for me. This year’s installment took place on May 10/11. As Open Humans hadn’t ever participated in a Sprint before, I spent some time in getting up a clean list of ways to contribute on a small micro-site.
This post was prompted by Donna Lanclos tweeting a link to a talk by Eamon Tewell: https://twitter.com/DonnaLanclos/status/992843570238377984 His talk, on the problems of deficit models chimed with me on issues of tacit knowledge. I’m still noodling around an underpinning theory of knowledge for my work (blog post currently has spent nearly 12 months in the draft folder). The core to the model is that (general?
Clarivate Analytics, owner of the database Web of Science and services as publons, acquired Kopernio. Kopernio facilitates the search for Open Access documents. For pay-walled articles to which you have no access, Kopernio is looking for an alternative Open Access version. Unlike unpaywall, a similiar tool, using Kopernio requires registration.
“ Algorithm ” is a word that has become more and more meaningless in our day and age – given how it is thrown around everywhere. If you bring it up with people who didn’t undergo some form of tech initiation – be that formal education or self-learning - it’s easy for them to conjure a picture like the one above: A colourful mess of things, too complex to understand if you don’t have some advanced degree in computer science.