Current estimates for the cost of subscription articles converge around US$5,000 per article. This number is reached by dividing the estimated US$10b spent on subscriptions annually world-wide by the two million published articles every year. Current initiatives aiming for a transition from subscriptions to gold (article processing charges, APC-based) open access emphasize that the transition has to be cost–neutral.

For completeness, this post, also based on analyses performed by Daniel Ecer of eLife (<d.ecer@elifesciences.org)> on data he downloaded from Crossref in September 2017 (Ecer, 2017), complements the two preceding posts, and details the openness of references from scholarly publishers other than Elsevier.

Yesterday (November 23rd 2017) I was working with Daniel Ecer of eLife (<d.ecer@elifesciences.org)> to dig some hard facts out of the analyses he undertook on data he downloaded from Crossref in September 2017 (Ecer, 2017).  Because of its dominant position in the scholarly publishing world, in this, the second of two related posts, I report the results for references from works published by Elsevier.

Yesterday (November 23rd 2017) I was working with Daniel Ecer of eLife (<d.ecer@elifesciences.org)> to dig some hard facts out of the analyses he undertook on data he downloaded from Crossref in September 2017 (Ecer, 2017).  In this, the first of two related posts, I report the results for all publishers . **The analyses show that, of the 33,672,763 journal articles documented in Crossref that have accompanying

In 2017, we have a vast toolbox of informative methods to help us analyse large volumes of text. Sentiment analysis, topic modelling, and named entity recognition are to name but a few of these exciting approaches. Computational power and storage capacity are not the limiting factors on what we could do with the 100 million or so journal articles that comprise the ever-growing research literature so far.

In Schweden ist ein Zwischenbericht zu den Offsetting-Agreements mit Springer und IOP veröffentlicht worden. Von dem 24-Seitigen Bericht in schwedischer Sprache, gibt es auch eine zweiseitige Zusammenfassung auf Englisch.

Nachdem bereits einige Bundesländer Open-Science-Strategien (Baden-Württemberg, Berlin) oder Open-Access-Strategien (Schleswig-Holstein) auf den Weg gebracht oder angekündigt haben, hat nun auch die Hansestadt Hamburg ein Programm zur Förderung von Open Science gestartet.

Die G7-Wissenschaftsministerinnen und -minister haben als Ergebnis ihrer bisher fünften Konferenz in Turin ein Communiqué (PDF) veröffentlicht, dass das Thema Open Science aufgreift. Neben der Bedeutung von Forschungsinfrastrukturen für digitale Forschungsdaten betonen die G7-Staaten die Bedeutung von Anreizen für Open Science.

After almost 25 years since Stevan Harnad’s “subversive proposal”, now, finally, scholars and the public have a range of avenues at their disposal to access nearly every scholarly article. Public access, while not the default, has finally arrived. Granted, while all of the current options are considered legal for the reader , not all providers of scholarly literature conform to every law in every country.

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