Re: [GOAL] COVID-19 and access to knowledge

Sent: March 31, 2020 11:17 AM To: goal@eprints.org Subject: Re: [GOAL] COVID-19 and access to knowledge I also strongly agree with Peter. As for Éric Archambault, it is simply a pity to see greed trump principles. One last note: OA will succeed, despite what Stevan says. Let us shape OA the right

Re: [GOAL] Predatory Publishing

My five cent here. At 1science, we used the Beall’s list as a source of inspiration to built 1journal which is a white list of academic/scientific journal we use in building 1findr - we currently have a tad more than 87,000 journals in there, and about 80,000 journals of which have articles

Re: [GOAL] 1findr: research discovery & analytics platform

Hi Peter We have opened access to our search platform for free. I the search platform there is a filter to easily identify open access papers. When you find open access papers you can download them for free. I think this is relevant for GOAL. Éric Eric Archambault, PhD CEO | Chef de la

Re: [GOAL] Dramatic Growth of Open Access September 30, 2017

Heather, How do you derive this percentage? Also, are you using the same definition of document than BASE is using. It seems to me that BASE equates documents to metadata records, one for one. A metadata record could however refers to a photograph. So this estimate of 60% of "documents" means

[GOAL] Max Planck and 1science partner to improve access to OA and to journals left aside from main A databases

Apologies for cross posting – Here is a press release sent today by 1science which I thought could be relevant to this list Eric Archambault, CEO of 1science, is pleased to announce that 1science is now a key supplier to the Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL), based in

Re: [GOAL] Elsevier's interpretation of CC BY-NC-ND

Dear Gemma The OA2020 proposes a separate business model involving a “large scale transition to open access”. What is the position of Elsevier relative to that initiative? The position of the Max Planck is there is enough money in the system to enable the transition to an open access model so

Re: [GOAL] List of APCs per publisher

% VAT) is approx. £2000. Best, Arthur Dr Arthur Smith | Open Access Service Manager | as2...@cam.ac.uk<mailto:as2...@cam.ac.uk> | 01223 766376 From: goal-boun...@eprints.org<mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org> [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Éric Archambault Sent: 18 Ma

[GOAL] List of APCs per publisher

Hi everyone, Are you aware of a list of average APCs per publisher (or per journal) which is current, and even better, which is up to date and regularly maintained? I'm looking for APCs for both hybrids and bon-gold journals. Thanks in advance Éric Eric Archambault, Ph.D. CEO | Chef de la

Re: [GOAL] How much of the content in open repositories is able to meet the definition of open access?

Marc has a good point on the NC character. Does intermediation counts? For example, Google presents millions of papers on its search results pages and these papers contribute as fodder to Google's $2.18 million net after taxes profit per hour (the vast majority of these profits are from

[GOAL] 1science pricing -- RE: Dramatic Growth of Open Access September 30, 2016

.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif] Richard Poynder​ On 7 October 2016 at 11:55, Éric Archambault <eric.archamba...@science-metrix.com<mailto:eric.archamba...@science-metrix.com>> wrote: Just a quick note. The fact that BASE has more than 100 million "documents" is not su

Re: [GOAL] Dramatic Growth of Open Access September 30, 2016

Just a quick note. The fact that BASE has more than 100 million "documents" is not such a meaningful information as they do not define "documents". My impression is that they are truly speaking about metadata records, not full-text documents as a large number of these records do not contain

Re: [GOAL] MDPI APCs 2011 - 2016

Shy-Kun Congratulations for your progress. I admire your resolve. Would be nice to meet-up when I'll happen to be around, or should you come to Montreal. Cordially Eric Eric Archambault 1science.com Science-Metrix.com +1-514-495-6505 x111 > On Sep 13, 2016, at 7:07 AM, Dr. Shu-Kun Lin

Re: [GOAL] Research confirms 50% greater impact of open access papers, despite delayed availability

http://digitalcommons.unl.edu From: goal-boun...@eprints.org<mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org> [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Éric Archambault Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2016 11:56 PM To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) (goal@eprints.org<mailto:goal@eprin

Re: [GOAL] SocArXiv debuts, as SSRN acquisition comes under scrutiny

This type of venue is essential and certainly welcomed for the social sciences. Yet, it would be even greater a place if it also included the humanities and the arts. There is a considerable challenge in the SSH because there are far fewer authors on average on scholarly papers (1 to 2 authors

Re: [GOAL] Dramatic Growth of Open Access: June 30, 2016

Heather, In the absence of strong evidence, it is difficult to speak of a dramatic growth. The specific challenge of measuring OA availability is that in order to measure growth you need to measure at different points in time with the same measure or to be able to re-calibrate your measures

Re: [GOAL] Re : Re: SSRN Sellout to Elsevier

Tue, May 17, 2016 at 11:22 PM, Éric Archambault <eric.archamba...@science-metrix.com<mailto:eric.archamba...@science-metrix.com>> wrote: Isidro Not so sure. Two weeks ago while visiting university libraries in Europe I saw that many of them are switching/considering to switch to their

Re: [GOAL] Prophylactic Against Elsevier Predation

ad On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 5:53 PM, Éric Archambault <eric.archamba...@science-metrix.com<mailto:eric.archamba...@science-metrix.com>> wrote: Eric At 1science, we have developed a robust solution to address some of the problems you are mentioning. In contrast to the optimistic view

Re: [GOAL] Prophylactic Against Elsevier Predation

Forgot to specify – we are approaching 60% of WoS contents that can be found in gratis OA – that’s for the last few years (about 5 years – except the latest year which is still plagued by embargoes and the lack of reflex by researchers to self-archive immediately the pre-prints and

Re: [GOAL] Prophylactic Against Elsevier Predation

Eric At 1science, we have developed a robust solution to address some of the problems you are mentioning. In contrast to the optimistic view of the repositories that Stevan has, in our efforts to locate all the contents which is available in green and gold (including hybrid), we are finding

Re: [GOAL] Re : Re: SSRN Sellout to Elsevier

Hi Not everyone who uses a CRIS uses it as a repository - few probably do actually as they have started a while back with their repository software. If I'm not wrong, Symplectic Elements facilitates the workflow from the CRIS to the IR. Eric Archambault 1science.com

Re: [GOAL] Re : Re: SSRN Sellout to Elsevier

Isidro Not so sure. Two weeks ago while visiting university libraries in Europe I saw that many of them are switching/considering to switch to their CRIS instead of continuing to rely on their traditional repositories and the mostly open source software. We'll have to see how far it goes but

[GOAL] Re: Inside Higher Ed: All six editors and all 31 editorial board members of Lingua resign over Elsevier

Jeffrey Your black list is the largest journal banner in the world. Where do you take the moral authority to give lessons to others who want to do the same thing on a much smaller scale? Éric From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Beall, Jeffrey Sent:

[GOAL] Re: Need for a new beginning - Assessing Publishers and Journals Scholarly Practices - Reloaded

t; - Trees say printing is a thing of the past From: goal-boun...@eprints.org<mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org> [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Éric Archambault Sent: zaterdag 3 oktober 201

[GOAL] Need for a new beginning - Assessing Publishers and Journals Scholarly Practices - Reloaded

Hi List Hi list My previous efforts rapidly went off-topic, so I’m making a second effort to reload the questions to the list with the hope of receiving more input on this important topic. Back to our still largely unaddressed problem, I am re-inviting people to contribute ideas, focussing

[GOAL] Re: Need for a new beginning

Hi List I’d like to steer this debate away from individuals and bring it back to the questions that need to be addressed in a fairly urgent manner. Though I personally don’t agree with many if not most positions that Jeffrey has taken over the years on different subjects, and many list members

[GOAL] Need for a new beginning

Dear list members: What started as a one-man, useful list that identified “Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers”, which Jeffrey himself further qualifies as a “list of questionable, scholarly open-access publishers”, has now overshot its usefulness. We

[GOAL] Re: Dutch begin their Elsevier boycott

Thomas I don't think it's fair to say this is a problem made by libraries. It is a systemic problem which calls for systemic solutions. Part of the solution is to make OA more discoverable and this starts with systems such as RePEC being more user-friendly and clearly and simply exposing what

[GOAL] Re: Dramatic Growth of Open Access

Hi Heather A lot of these number are just numbers, without much direct relevance to OA. Full-text document does not mean it is accessible for free. How many of the SSRN are available for free? Number of documents in the case of Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) is practically meaningless

[GOAL] Elsevier Cracks Down on Pirated Scientific Articles

May be of interest to GOAL's readers. I never thought that free (even if illegal) circulation of scientific knowledge poses a threat to public health. Interesting suggestion, I'd like to see the peer-reviewed evidence on this. This is particularly interesting as it is mentionned here that the

[GOAL] Re: More RE: Positive example: Springer ... is the Royal Society a better example?

Springer deserve a kudo ? Just for transparency? What's new if it becomes clear that double-dipping means taking underfunded academic institutions for a ride ? Greetings, Bernard _ BernardRentier Hon. Rector, Université de Liège, Belgium Le 27 mai 2015 à 00:53, Éric Archambault

[GOAL] Re: Elsevier: Trying to squeeze the virtual genie back into the physical bottle

, or to substitute for, the published journal article. Alicia: is this the up-to-date policy. What arXiv but not IR? Éric Archambault From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of William Gunn Sent: May-26-15 5:27 PM To: Global Open Access List (Successor

[GOAL] Positive example: Springer

progressive publishers such as Springer destroy the market share of dinosaurs!). Éric Archambault ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal

[GOAL] Re: Elsevier: Trying to squeeze the virtual genie back into the physical bottle

with Springer which also published SciGen papers, for a new list Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly subscription-access publishers. Éric Archambault From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Jean-Claude Guédon Sent: May-26-15 4:50 PM

[GOAL] Re: Elsevier: Trying to squeeze the virtual genie back into the physical bottle

industry, then just as well, they’ll be more taxpayers to pay the tab for the $450 billion we spend collectively on research, and on paying the salaries of university staff and free though conflating thinkers such as yourself. Éric Archambault President and CEO, Science-Metrix Inc. President

[GOAL] Journal Impact Factor will show that embargo hurts the Impact Factor and thus the reputation and value of subscription-based journals

Stevan and other proponents of OA are adamant that embargoes are unacceptable. It is a huge fight, a very unequal one. What is likely to happen to give the final word to these advocates and lead to embargo elimination is the fact that embargoed journals are not going to get the citations that

[GOAL] Re: Elsevier (and other traditional publishers) and PLOS

, S. (2010) No-Fault Peer Review Charges: The Price of Selectivity Need Not Be Access Denied or Delayedhttp://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/21348/. D-Lib Magazine 16 (7/8)http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july10/harnad/07harnad.html. http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/21348/ On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 10:04 PM, Éric

[GOAL] Re: Number of Open Access journals

/ - Trees say printing is a thing of the past From: goal-boun...@eprints.orgmailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Éric Archambault Sent: woensdag 29 april 2015 0:08 To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Subject

[GOAL] Re: Number of Open Access journals

/ - Trees say printing is a thing of the past From: goal-boun...@eprints.orgmailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.orgmailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Éric Archambault Sent: woensdag

[GOAL] Re: Number of Open Access journals

/ - Trees say printing is a thing of the past From: goal-boun...@eprints.orgmailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.orgmailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Éric Archambault Sent: woensdag 29 april 2015

[GOAL] Re: Number of Open Access journals

* Vakoch, D. A. (Ed.) (2011). Psychology of space exploration, contemporary research in historical perspective. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. pp. 85–86. From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Éric Archambault Sent: April-29-15 5:40 PM

[GOAL] Re: Number of Open Access journals

Jean-Claude has an excellent point. Our current outlook is extremely Western-centric. When I was in SPRU, professors (can't remember if it was Pavitt or Ben Martin) used to joke that bibliometric measurement was highly influenced by the linguistic capacity of housewives in Philadelphia. Though

[GOAL] Open Access Week: Series of reports on OA

Apologies for cross-posting As part of Open Access Week 2014, a series of six reports on open access, produced for the European Commission (EC), were posted yesterday on the Science-Metrix website: http://science-metrix.com/en/publications/reports These reports were produced as part of the EC