Nach dem Einreichen einer Rechtsverzögerungsbeschwerde ist die Universität Zürich endlich in die Gänge gekommen und legt nach einem Jahr (!) seit meiner Anfrage, endlich eine erste Version des 32-seitigen RSC-Vertrag mit einigen Schwärzungen offen.
A contract study on the qualitative perception of Open Access was completed at the end of last year.
The term ‘predatory publisher’ reveals a limit of language – or rather it asks too much of language. It seeks a binary separation between ‘predatory’ and ‘non-predatory’ where no such separation can exist, ultimately illustrating more about the motivations and hidden biases about the accuser than the supposedly predatory journal at hand. We therefore need another way to conceptualise the practices that predatory publishing seeks to describe.
When the original BOAI declaration on open access was published, one of its stated aims was to ‘save money and expand the scope of dissemination at the same time’ through open access publishing.
So this is essentially what happened instead of us sitting down and thinking how we could spend our money in the most technologically savvy way to the benefit of science, scholars and society. A generation later, roughly US$300 billion poorer and none the wiser, it seems.
OpenCitations is an infrastructure organization for open scholarship dedicated to the publication of open bibliographic and citation data.
The memorable date 20/02/2020 saw the publication by MIT Press of the first issue of Volume One of a new journal, Quantitative Science Studies (QSS), the official open access journal of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI). QSS’s Editor in Chief is Ludo Waltman (CWTS, University of Leiden, Netherlands), Vincent Larivière (Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada) and Staša Milojević
“It all started with a pang of jealousy,” says Asura Enkhbayar when asked what inspired him to start Open Science […]
Keynote presented by Juan Pablo Alperin at the first United Nations Open Science Conference on November 19, 2019, organized by the UN Dag Hammarskjöld Library and the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition ( SPARC ). Good morning.
Aktuell machen Gerüchte über die Planung einer Executive Order der US-Administration zum Thema Open Access die Runde: Wie das Blog The Scholarly Kitchen berichtet, soll eine Verordnung in Arbeit sein, die die US-Behörden verpflichten würde, eine “zero embargo” Open-Access-Policy umzusetzen.