Re: [GOAL] COVID IP waiver request: interesting but not entirely informed?

2021-09-03 Thread Heather Morrison
tely essential for informed discussion in this area. GOAL may or may not be the right venue for this discussion. Advice on this would be welcome. best, Dr. Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa Cross-appointed, Department of Communication Professeur

[GOAL] COVID IP waiver request: interesting but not entirely informed?

2021-09-01 Thread Heather Morrison
is an existing solution that would be a much easier sell (compulsory licensing) Background or comments, anyone? Dr. Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa Cross-appointed, Department of Communication Professeur Agrégé, École des Sciences de

[GOAL] Irrational rationality: critique of metrics-based evaluation of researchers and universities

2021-08-03 Thread Heather Morrison
/hdl.handle.net/2429/78483 best, Dr. Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa Cross-appointed, Department of Communication Professeur Agrégé, École des Sciences de l'Information, Université d'Ottawa Principal Investigator, Sustaining the Knowle

[GOAL] Open access article processing charges 2011 - 2021

2021-06-24 Thread Heather Morrison
CAUTION: This e-mail originated outside the University of Southampton. Global Open Access list members may be interested in this preprint of a major study on APCs and/or the open datasets. Comments and questions are welcome on this list or through the blog. ~ Heather Morrison Abstract

[GOAL] Welcome to C.A.S.A.D.: Centre d'Accès aux Savoirs d'Afrique et de sa Diaspora

2020-09-09 Thread Heather Morrison
voeux à Tanoh et sa recherche. Permalink:https://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2020/09/09/bienvenue-a-c-a-s-a-d-centre-dacces-aux-savoirs-dafrique-et-de-sa-diaspora/ best, Dr. Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa Cross-appointed, Departmen

[GOAL] Knowledge & equity: key points, and the 10-minute video version

2020-07-15 Thread Heather Morrison
ttps://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2020/06/26/knowledge-and-equity-analysis-of-three-models/ Attendees of the IAMCR virtual conference may wish to enter their comments there. best, Dr. Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa Cross-appointed, Depart

[GOAL] Knowledge and Equity: analysis of three models

2020-06-26 Thread Heather Morrison
ttps://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2020/06/26/knowledge-and-equity-analysis-of-three-models/ best, Dr. Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa Cross-appointed, Department of Communication Professeur Agrégé, École des Sciences de l'Information, Université d'Ot

[GOAL] SpringerOpen 2019 - 2020

2020-06-11 Thread Heather Morrison
by Anqi Shi & Heather Morrison Abstract 307 SpringerOpen titles for which we have data on journals that were fully open at some point from 2010 to the present were studied, with a primary focus on pricing and status changes from 2019 – 2020 and a secondary focus on longitudinal st

[GOAL] BioMedCentral 2020

2020-06-08 Thread Heather Morrison
BioMedCentral (BMC) 2019 – 2020 by Anqi Shi & Heather Morrison Key points * Open access commercial publishing pioneer BMC is now wholly owned by a private company with a portfolio including lines of business that derive revenue from journal subscriptions, book sales, and textbook s

[GOAL] Frontiers 2020: one third of journals raise price 45 times the inflation rate (or more)

2020-06-03 Thread Heather Morrison
lation-rate/ Dr. Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa Cross-appointed, Department of Communication Professeur Agrégé, École des Sciences de l'Information, Université d'Ottawa Principal Investigator, Sustaining the Knowledge Commons, a SSHRC

Re: [GOAL] Springer Nature reaches new milestone with publication of 1000th open access book

2020-05-20 Thread Heather Morrison
tation to downstream modifications, it increases the risk. Many scholars do not have the means to actively monitor downstream uses and take legal action if these are objectionable. For this reason, I argue that it is better to avoid the risk by avoiding the more "open" licenses. best, D

Re: [GOAL] Springer Nature reaches new milestone with publication of 1000th open access book

2020-05-19 Thread Heather Morrison
and practitioner of open research I do not grant blanket rights to translate, modify or adapt my text-based works. Open datasets are different, in that case the purpose is downstream modification. best, Dr. Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa Cross

[GOAL] COVID budget cuts, big deals, faculty positions and salaries & bibliodiversity

2020-04-21 Thread Heather Morrison
and support staff in local publishing (university press, scholarly society or library-based). I suspect this is best done proactively, early on when discussions about how to go about cuts are getting started. Is anyone doing anything like this? Thoughts? Dr. Heather Morrison Associate Professor

[GOAL] COVID-19 and access to knowledge: recommending a positive approach

2020-03-31 Thread Heather Morrison
. Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa / Cross-appointed to communication Professeur Agrégé, École des Sciences de l'Information, Université d'Ottawa Principal Investigator, Sustaining the Knowledge Commons, a SSHRC Insight Project

[GOAL] Coronavirus: OA progress and ideas for more

2020-03-31 Thread Heather Morrison
o are also teachers are likely swamped due to a sudden shift to online teaching this semester. For this group, it might make sense to time communication after the semester ends. Just some ideas... Dr. Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa

[GOAL] COVID-19, open access and open research: good progress, and what is missing

2020-03-30 Thread Heather Morrison
/03/30/covid-19-open-access-and-open-research-good-progress-and-what-is-missing/ Comments are welcome on the list or on the blog. I acknowledge in advance that many other publishers are doing excellent work providing resources relevant to the pandemic. The purpose of this post is to share some early an

Re: [GOAL] Help ensure vital Open Science/Scholarship infrastructure

2020-01-24 Thread Heather Morrison
Another question (inspired by Paige's, thanks): is there a way for researchers and/or research projects like Sustaining the Knowledge Commons without funding to commit to officially endorse SCOSS? Dr. Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa

[GOAL] OA APC open peer review report and invitation to participate in open peer review discussion

2020-01-20 Thread Heather Morrison
interested to read the discussion between the two of us (so far), at https://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2020/01/08/open-peer-review-discussion/ and contribute your own perspective, whether on the blog or on the list. best, Dr. Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Information Studies

[GOAL] OA Main 2019: open peer review invitation reminder

2020-01-07 Thread Heather Morrison
-peer-review-invitation/ best, Dr. Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa Professeur Agrégé, École des Sciences de l'Information, Université d'Ottawa Principal Investigator, Sustaining the Knowledge Commons, a SSHRC Insight Project

[GOAL] Dramatic Growth of Open Access 2019

2020-01-06 Thread Heather Morrison
matic Growth of Open Access Series<https://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2006/08/dramatic-growth-of-open-access-series.html>. It is cross-posted from The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics. Dr. Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa Profes

[GOAL] Scholarly research - global shift in funding

2019-12-04 Thread Heather Morrison
ional Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM) website: https://www.stm-assoc.org/2018_10_04_STM_Report_2018.pdf TDr.Further insights / research on this trend and its implications would be of interest. Dr. Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, Uni

Re: [GOAL] Linked Research

2019-11-28 Thread Heather Morrison
result in reproducible but invalid analysis (make the same mistakes, get the same invalid answers). To return to similarities: openly sharing such ideas and openness to critique is helpful to advance our understanding of how to move towards open knowledge. Dr. Heather Morrison Associ

[GOAL] OA APC longitudinal survey 2019

2019-11-27 Thread Heather Morrison
/2019/11/27/oa-apc-longitudinal-survey-2019/ Dr. Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa Professeur Agrégé, École des Sciences de l'Information, Université d'Ottawa Principal Investigator, Sustaining the Knowledge Commons, a SSHRC Insight

Re: [GOAL] Knowledge Exchange Publication on Monitoring agreements with Open Access elements

2019-11-27 Thread Heather Morrison
in the shift to OA, but let's not lose sight of the big picture, the potential for uniting humanity in a common quest for knowledge, in the process. Dr. Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa Professeur Agrégé, École des Sciences de l'Information

[GOAL] Hindawi APC comparison 2018

2019-11-05 Thread Heather Morrison
about specific journals. it also benefits other publishers to follow the lead. Details: https://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2019/11/05/hindawi-apc-comparison-2018-2019/ best, Dr. Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa Professeur Agrégé

[GOAL] Research posts on open access and Francophone Africa

2019-10-24 Thread Heather Morrison
plateforme Episciences.org sur laquelle l’on trouve une revue africaine Arima... English synopsis by Heather Morrison: African journals seek to create a space for themselves by disseminating their journals through online platforms and archives. There are multiple possibilities for preservation

Re: [GOAL] [SCHOLCOMM] Evaluation and metrics: why not (a critical perspective)

2019-10-23 Thread Heather Morrison
orate bias in hiring, salaries, grant funding, etc. best, Dr. Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa Professeur Agrégé, École des Sciences de l'Information, Université d'Ottawa Principal Investigator, Sustaining the Knowledge Commons, a

[GOAL] Evaluation and metrics: why not (a critical perspective)

2019-10-22 Thread Heather Morrison
sevier in this space. When the book is published, I'll refer to the work of fellow authors for an explanation of the problems associated with university rankings per se. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/39088 best, Dr. Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, Un

[GOAL] De Gruyter / Sciendo 2019 growth, ANSInet APC decreases

2019-10-16 Thread Heather Morrison
Two recent posts on the Sustaining the Knowledge Commons blog that may be of interest: De Gruyter and Sciendo open access journals expanding in 2019 by Hamid Pashaei and Heather Morrison Abstract De Gruyter is a well-known traditional academic publisher with 270 years of experience. We first

Re: [GOAL] Call for applications - International Open Access Advisory Group

2019-09-13 Thread Heather Morrison
o note since we started this conversation with transparency that no pharma company has yet spoken up about their own use and expectations. best, Dr. Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa Professeur Agrégé, École des Sciences de l'Information, Univ

Re: [GOAL] Call for applications - International Open Access Advisory Group

2019-09-13 Thread Heather Morrison
). By "voluntary payment", I mean that one can opt to pay 181 USD and use the figures, or not pay and not use the figures. The proposed tariff in Canada is meant to be compulsory. best, Dr. Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa Professeur Agrégé,

Re: [GOAL] Call for applications - International Open Access Advisory Group

2019-09-13 Thread Heather Morrison
, Heather Morrison From: goal-boun...@eprints.org on behalf of Heather Morrison Sent: Friday, September 13, 2019 8:20:52 AM To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Subject: Re: [GOAL] Call for applications - International Open Access Advisory Group Thank

Re: [GOAL] Call for applications - International Open Access Advisory Group

2019-09-13 Thread Heather Morrison
. It is not clear that full author copyright retention is compatible with OA journal and book licensing. Do we want authors to have a right that their work be removed from a journal or book? If not, the publishers of journals and books need to have some rights. best, Dr. Heather Morrison Associate

Re: [GOAL] Call for applications - International Open Access Advisory Group

2019-09-13 Thread Heather Morrison
is problematic. but so is their use of CC-BY. best, Dr. Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa Professeur Agrégé, École des Sciences de l'Information, Université d'Ottawa Principal Investigator, Sustaining the Knowledge Commons, a SSHRC Insight

Re: [GOAL] Call for applications - International Open Access Advisory Group

2019-09-12 Thread Heather Morrison
able to using more restrictive licenses, at least this is my perspective with respect to my own work, having given such matters a great deal of thought. best, Dr. Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa Professeur Agrégé, École des Science

Re: [GOAL] Call for applications - International Open Access Advisory Group

2019-09-12 Thread Heather Morrison
likely to be fruitful if held in public where all parties can follow and participate. best, Dr. Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa Professeur Agrégé, École des Sciences de l'Information, Université d'Ottawa Principal Investigator

Re: [GOAL] Call for applications - International Open Access Advisory Group

2019-09-11 Thread Heather Morrison
readers. On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 2:38 PM Heather Morrison mailto:heather.morri...@uottawa.ca>> wrote: Peter Murray-Rust raises the important point that the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC)'s basic model fits with perpetual copyright, the antithesis of open access. However, I argue that th

Re: [GOAL] How to manage APC waivers and discounts

2019-09-11 Thread Heather Morrison
experiment with attempting to fully automate peer review coordination that reduces review to a forced checklist (that I consider inappropriate from an academic standpoint) and treats human reviewers as appendages to PLOS algorithms. best, Dr. Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School

Re: [GOAL] Call for applications - International Open Access Advisory Group

2019-09-11 Thread Heather Morrison
ular to coordinate. In Canada, coordination of consultation on this topic might best be led by Canada's Tri-Council of national research funders, perhaps in cooperation with similar groups in other countries. Dr. Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ot

Re: [GOAL] How to manage APC waivers and discounts

2019-09-10 Thread Heather Morrison
Toronto and Vancouver (rapid inflation due largely to speculation leading to unaffordable housing) have emerged in a context of transparent pricing. best, Dr. Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa Professeur Agrégé, École des Sciences de

Re: [GOAL] How to manage APC waivers and discounts

2019-09-04 Thread Heather Morrison
Exactly, Lisa. Scholarly communication does not have to be a market, and I argue it is better if it is not. Dr. Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa Professeur Agrégé, École des Sciences de l'Information, Université d'Ottawa Principal

Re: [GOAL] How to manage APC waivers and discounts

2019-09-04 Thread Heather Morrison
ding was a very valuable global contribution (thanks to founder John Willinsky, now at Stanford). best, Dr. Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa Professeur Agrégé, École des Sciences de l'Information, Université d'Ottawa Principal Investig

Re: [GOAL] How to manage APC waivers and discounts

2019-09-04 Thread Heather Morrison
on them. best, Dr. Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa Professeur Agrégé, École des Sciences de l'Information, Université d'Ottawa Principal Investigator, Sustaining the Knowledge Commons, a SSHRC Insight Project sustainingknowledgecommons.org

Re: [GOAL] How to manage APC waivers and discounts

2019-09-04 Thread Heather Morrison
iver of 50% for authors from low to middle income countries. Is this half of a price that no one in the richest institutions actually pays? Is it sometimes more than a rich institution actually pays for one of its authors? best, Dr. Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Information Studies,

Re: [GOAL] How to manage APC waivers and discounts

2019-09-03 Thread Heather Morrison
agencies, at least in my part of the world, have a solid reputation for seeking accountability for every cost incurred. best, Dr. Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa Professeur Agrégé, École des Sciences de l'Information, Université d'

Re: [GOAL] Informed consent and open licensing: some questions for discussion

2019-08-29 Thread Heather Morrison
arious types of IP and related rights is challenging to work with, but for this reason, I see it as a career growth area for librarians and other information professionals with an interest in and aptitude for policy work. best, Dr. Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Information

Re: [GOAL] Informed consent and open licensing: some questions for discussion

2019-08-28 Thread Heather Morrison
expectations of how this metadata will be used in future for which there are no examples yet? Further discussion - answers or more questions - is encouraged. Dr. Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa Professeur Agrégé, École des Sciences de l'Inf

[GOAL] Informed consent and open licensing: some questions for discussion

2019-08-27 Thread Heather Morrison
://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2019/08/27/informed-consent-in-the-context-of-open-licensing-some-questions-for-discussion/ best, Dr. Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa Professeur Agrégé, École des Sciences de l'Information, Université d'Ottawa

[GOAL] DOAJ is what it is: acknowledging contributions and highlighting limitations

2019-08-22 Thread Heather Morrison
are fully open access, active, and meet the DOAJ criteria, but this is not sufficient for research purposes. best, Dr. Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa Professeur Agrégé, École des Sciences de l'Information, Université d'Ottawa Principal

Re: [GOAL] DOAJ: handmaiden to despots? or, OA, let's talk

2019-08-21 Thread Heather Morrison
e to move beyond advocacy to developing and refining policy, services and practices for the future. best, Dr. Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa Professeur Agrégé, École des Sciences de l'Information, Université d'Ottawa Principal Investigator

Re: [GOAL] DOAJ: handmaiden to despots? or, OA, let's talk

2019-08-21 Thread Heather Morrison
appreciate the feedback on my open research in the form of blog comments and listserv responses. This is particularly valuable when I'm wrong or I've missed something. best, Dr. Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa Professeur Agrégé, École des

Re: [GOAL] DOAJ: handmaiden to despots? or, OA, let's talk

2019-08-20 Thread Heather Morrison
t wherever available. If the indexing is not free of charge, we may end up having to pay for toll access services like Elsevier's Scopus to discover freely available content. best, Dr. Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa Professeur Agrégé,

Re: [GOAL] DOAJ: handmaiden to despots? or, OA, let's talk

2019-08-15 Thread Heather Morrison
lication process less onerous for small journals. Last time I checked, the DOAJ application process requested 15 different URLs for each journal. This is a lot to ask of a small journal, especially if the editor's first language is not English. best, Dr. Heather Morrison Associate Professor,

[GOAL] DOAJ: handmaiden to despots? or, OA, let's talk

2019-08-15 Thread Heather Morrison
/doaj-handmaiden-to-despots-or-oa-we-need-to-talk/ best, Dr. Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa Professeur Agrégé, École des Sciences de l'Information, Université d'Ottawa Principal Investigator, Sustaining the Knowledge Commons, a SSHRC

[GOAL] SpringerOpen pricing trends 2018 - 2019

2019-08-13 Thread Heather Morrison
SpringerOpen sponsorships are sustainable anywhere. Details: https://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2019/08/13/springeropen-pricing-trends-2018-2019/ best, Dr. Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa Professeur Agrégé, École des Sciences de

[GOAL] No-fee inclusive journals, and disappointment with DOAJ

2019-08-13 Thread Heather Morrison
://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2019/08/13/no-fee-inclusive-journals-and-disappointment-with-doaj/ best, Dr. Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa Professeur Agrégé, École des Sciences de l'Information, Université d'Ottawa Principal Investigator

[GOAL] Scholars at risk Re: SpringerOpen, Egypt and academic freedom

2019-08-13 Thread Heather Morrison
rspectives are available appear to be necessary. Both of these problems are major ones for understanding the world we live in, and illustrate why academic freedom is needed for all of us, not just particular individual academics. best, Dr. Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Informati

Re: [GOAL] SpringerOpen, Egypt and academic freedom

2019-08-08 Thread Heather Morrison
irst Nations peoples, and even today our First Nations peoples often need to speak to the United Nations to get attention to ongoing human rights violations at home. best, Dr. Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa Professeur Agrégé, École

Re: [GOAL] SpringerOpen, Egypt and academic freedom

2019-08-08 Thread Heather Morrison
is not at fault. SpringerNature faces similar dilemmas to other commercial companies working in non-democratic countries. This is a difficult problem, but an important one and we can start by acknowledging that the problem exists. Dr. Heather Morrison From: goal-boun

Re: [GOAL] SpringerOpen, Egypt and academic freedom

2019-08-08 Thread Heather Morrison
for discussion and note that attribution, generally desirable in scholarship, can sometimes be problematic. best, Dr. Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa Professeur Agrégé, École des Sciences de l'Information, Université d'Ottawa Principal

Re: [GOAL] SpringerOpen, Egypt and academic freedom

2019-08-08 Thread Heather Morrison
in the context of scholarly publishing because some of the latest technological developments appear to assume that matters such as attribution are neutral or beneficial. best, Dr. Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa Professeur Agrégé, École des

[GOAL] SpringerNature and Macmillan: one company, two directions: open access and IP maximization

2019-07-29 Thread Heather Morrison
ar less open than Elsevier. This will be re-posted on the sustainingknowledgecommons.org blog. best, Dr. Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa Professeur Agrégé, École des Sciences de l'Information, Université d'Ottawa Principal Investigator, Sustai

[GOAL] SpringerOpen: ceased, now hybrid, and OA identification challenges

2019-07-23 Thread Heather Morrison
-identification-challenges/ best, Dr. Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa Professeur Agrégé, École des Sciences de l'Information, Université d'Ottawa Principal Investigator, Sustaining the Knowledge Commons, a SSHRC Insight Project

[GOAL] Re-use of photos of people requires consent

2019-07-18 Thread Heather Morrison
blanket downstream re-use rights to anyone, to reduce the risk of harm and to make it as easy as possible to use legal remedies to stop harm, should this be necessary. best, Dr. Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa Professeur Agrégé, École des

[GOAL] corrected URLs Re: Latin America: long-time peerless leader in open access

2019-07-16 Thread Heather Morrison
oops - corrected URLs below From: Radical Open Access on behalf of Heather Morrison Sent: Monday, July 15, 2019 4:37:33 PM To: radicalopenacc...@jiscmail.ac.uk Subject: Latin America: long-time peerless leader in open access This post is a public response

[GOAL] Latin America: long-time peerless leader in open access

2019-07-15 Thread Heather Morrison
post (building on prior work of Harnad and others) on open peer review, with ideas, links and an invitation to participate in experimentation and discussion, which can be found here: https://wordpress.com/post/sustainingknowledgecommons.org/3463 best, Dr. Heather Morrison Associate Professor

Re: [GOAL] Results of OA article data collection from OASPA members

2019-07-08 Thread Heather Morrison
n re-use (often tens of thousands of dollars in reprints). That's the absolute downside of CC NC ND. P. On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 9:18 PM Heather Morrison mailto:heather.morri...@uottawa.ca>> wrote: Thank you Christian. Following are some points of agreement and relevant research, and follow-

Re: [GOAL] Results of OA article data collection from OASPA members

2019-07-08 Thread Heather Morrison
contribute on an equal basis. The latter might be an interesting discussion for another time. best, Heather Morrison From: Leonard, Michelle M Sent: Monday, July 8, 2019 11:37 AM To: Heather Morrison Subject: RE: [GOAL] Results of OA article data collection from OAS

Re: [GOAL] Results of OA article data collection from OASPA members

2019-07-08 Thread Heather Morrison
. 4. What about Elsevier published content to date? If Elsevier no longer distributes such content, what will happen with this content and access to it? As a reminder, almost all Elsevier journals allow author self-archiving: http://sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/search.php best, Heather Morrison

Re: [GOAL] Results of OA article data collection from OASPA members

2019-07-08 Thread Heather Morrison
ier to use CC-BY for their "own" content?** If so, how do you propose to do this and which of Elsevier's content? best, Heather Morrison ** Side note: this is problematic, but let's leave this for now. From: goal-boun...@eprints.org on behalf of

Re: [GOAL] Results of OA article data collection from OASPA members

2019-07-08 Thread Heather Morrison
). I recommend against the use of licenses allowing blanket commercial re-use to authors, journals, OA advocates and policy-makers. best, Dr. Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa Professeur Agrégé, École des Sciences de l'Information

[GOAL] The dialectic of open

2019-06-17 Thread Heather Morrison
e blogpost: https://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2019/06/12/the-dialectic-of-open/ best, Dr. Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa Professeur Agrégé, École des Sciences de l'Information, Université d'Ottawa Principal Investigator,

[GOAL] Metrics, old and new: a critical perspective

2019-05-22 Thread Heather Morrison
communication as it is recognized that scholarly works may take many forms. The full blogpost and a link to the book chapter preprint can be found here: https://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2019/05/22/what-counts-in-research-dysfunction-in-knowledge-creation-moving-beyond/ best, Dr. Heather

[GOAL] BMC update: 66% of journals increased APC from 2018 - 2019, 61% far above inflationary rates

2019-05-01 Thread Heather Morrison
open peer review. Having publishers check our findings is a type of rigorous critique that typical academic peer review could easily miss. <https://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2019/04/30/biomed-central-in-2019-sharp-increase-in-article-processing-charge/>best, Dr. Heather Morrison Ass

[GOAL] Frontiers and BioMedCentral APC prices 2019

2019-04-30 Thread Heather Morrison
s open access journals is 3 percent. Details: https://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2019/04/30/frontiers-in-2019-3-increase-in-average-apc/ Dr. Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa Professeur Agrégé, École des Sciences de l'Information, Univ

[GOAL] URL correction Fw: Open access versus the commons

2019-04-24 Thread Heather Morrison
tps://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2019/04/23/open-access-versus-the-commons-or-steps-towards-developing-commons-to-sustain-open-access/> sustainingknowledgecommons.org by Heather Morrison Abstract The concept of open access is complementary to, and in opposition to the commons. The similarities and overlap

[GOAL] Open access versus the commons

2019-04-23 Thread Heather Morrison
/sustainingknowledgecommons.org/3430 best, Dr. Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa Professeur Agrégé, École des Sciences de l'Information, Université d'Ottawa Principal Investigator, Sustaining the Knowledge Commons, a SSHRC Insight Project

Re: [GOAL] Plan S: APC and service level

2019-04-23 Thread Heather Morrison
dy models, because in the case of scholarly publishing the authors and readers are largely the same group. best, Dr. Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa Professeur Agrégé, École des Sciences de l'Information, Université d'Ottawa Prin

[GOAL] Why I oppose conflating open access and open licensing

2019-04-10 Thread Heather Morrison
copyright. The remainder of the sections of this open review that are relevant to copyright are posted below. An open peer review of “Few open access journals are Plan S compliant”: third and final round by Dr. Heather Morrison, Associate Professor, University of Ottawa School of Information

[GOAL] Open to closed: analysis of public domain government data

2019-04-09 Thread Heather Morrison
s it say and mean? What are trends in government data policies regarding access to that statistical data? This article will give the reader an understanding of federal policies and laws regarding data. best, Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University o

[GOAL] Science, let's talk: your friend, all the other knowledges.

2019-04-09 Thread Heather Morrison
immanent existential threat to science itself. At a recent talk I presented a brief explanation of the argument. Abstract: https://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2019/04/09/science-lets-talk-your-friend-all-other-knowledges/ Presentation: https://ruor.uottawa.ca/handle/10393/38890 Heather

[GOAL] Acknowledging a downside to APC: opening for exploitation

2019-04-04 Thread Heather Morrison
representatives) are more likely to ensure high quality and ethical services than policies favouring and/or providing support for OA publishing with no clear vetting process of publication venues. Full post: https://wordpress.com/post/sustainingknowledgecommons.org/3419 best, Heather Mor

Re: [GOAL] Sage Open Access

2019-04-04 Thread Heather Morrison
packages or 3rd party bundles) - Sage plans to become an all-OA publisher best, Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa Professeur Agrégé, École des Sciences de l'Information, Université d'Ottawa Principal Investigator, Sustaining the Knowledge

[GOAL] Sage OA 2019: growing number of OA journals, still expensive, APC based, complex pricing trends

2019-04-03 Thread Heather Morrison
it has processing fee or not. Some journals from the previous years ceased publication and Sage has removed them from their database, but only a few of them are accessible through clockss.org archive. by Hamid Pashaei and Heather Morrison Full post: https://sustainingknowledgecommons.org

[GOAL] MDPI: price increases, some hefty, more to come in July

2019-02-13 Thread Heather Morrison
ome-hefty-and-more-coming-in-july/> sustainingknowledgecommons.org In brief: MDPI has increased prices, in many cases quite substantially (some prices have more than tripled). Even more price increases are anticipated in July 2019, which will have the effect of do… Heather Morrison Ass

[GOAL] PLOS 2018: 3 - 7% APC price increases

2018-12-19 Thread Heather Morrison
ns.org/2018/12/19/plos-apcs-2018-3-7-price-increases/><https://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2018/12/19/plos-apcs-2018-3-7-price-increases/>best, Dr. Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa Professeur Agrégé, École des Sciences de l'Information, Université d'Ot

[GOAL] OA journals, commercial publishers and society / university partnerships: contrasting trends

2018-12-13 Thread Heather Morrison
Some recent observations from the Sustaining the Knowledge Commons team that may be of interest to list members: Medknow in 2018 - growing fast! by Hamid Pashaei and Heather Morrison Medknow<http://www.medknow.com/> is a commercial scholarly journal publisher based in India,

Re: [GOAL] Predatory Publishing

2018-07-25 Thread Heather Morrison
r other OA services. Funders could help by providing targeted funding for the development of such services. best, Heather Morrison From: goal-boun...@eprints.org on behalf of Richard Poynder Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2018 9:21:44 AM To: Global Open A

Re: [GOAL] Why translating all scholarly knowledge for non-specialists using AI is complicated

2018-07-13 Thread Heather Morrison
or automatically summarizing my work. Thank you for the offer to contribute to your project. These posts to GOAL are my contribution. best, Heather Morrison From: goal-boun...@eprints.org on behalf of Jason Priem Sent: Friday, July 13, 2018 1:35:51 PM To: Global Open

Re: [GOAL] Why translating all scholarly knowledge for non-specialists using AI is complicated

2018-07-13 Thread Heather Morrison
not be the same as how a non-expert would interpret the same summary). Thank you for posting openly about the approach and for the opportunity to comment. best, Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa Professeur Agrégé, École des Sciences de

Re: [GOAL] Why translating all scholarly knowledge for non-specialists using AI is complicated

2018-07-12 Thread Heather Morrison
. This will take a lot of time, and will require the involvement of many specialists in medicine. best, Heather Morrison From: goal-boun...@eprints.org on behalf of Donald Samulack - Editage Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2018 4:03 PM To: 'Global Open Access List

[GOAL] Why translating all scholarly knowledge for non-specialists using AI is complicated

2018-07-12 Thread Heather Morrison
s research on the validity of such translations, the result could be widespread dissemination of incorrect translations. best, Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa Professeur Agrégé, École des Sciences de l'Information, Université d'Ottawa heather.

Re: [GOAL] Announcing: $850k grant from Arcadia Fund to build new scholarly search engine for public

2018-07-10 Thread Heather Morrison
? To date, developing interesting projects then selling to Elsevier seems to be the go-to business plan (Mendeley, SSRN, bepress, Plum Analytics...). What's your plan? best, Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa Professeur Agrégé, École des

[GOAL] Ceased and transferred publications and archiving: best practices and room for improvement

2018-07-05 Thread Heather Morrison
best, Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa Professeur Agrégé, École des Sciences de l'Information, Université d'Ottawa heather.morri...@uottawa.ca https://uniweb.uottawa.ca/?lang=en#/members/706 sustainingknowledgecommo

[GOAL] Dramatic Growth of Open Access June 30, 2018

2018-07-05 Thread Heather Morrison
logspot.com/2018/07/dramatic-growth-of-open-access-june-2018.html> poeticeconomics.blogspot.com Congratulations to DOAJ for recently surpassing a milestone of over 3 million articles searchable at the article level! The outstand... Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Informati

Re: [GOAL] North, South, and Open Access: The view from Egypt with Mahmoud Khalifa

2018-04-27 Thread Heather Morrison
for recipients of science funding? What if the support program for non-APC journals were expanded to include sciences? To find the funding for this expansion, consider cancelling subscription big deals and redirecting funds. best, Heather Morrison Original message From: "Reckling,

Re: [GOAL] North, South, and Open Access: The view from Egypt with Mahmoud Khalifa

2018-04-26 Thread Heather Morrison
is a journal subsidy model. When countries subsidize journals for OA, the tendency is to not charge APCs. In other words, what model(s) to support is a policy decision with real-world impacts. best, Heather Morrison Original message From: Richard Poynder <richard.poyn...@gmail.

Re: [GOAL] North, South, and Open Access: The view from Egypt with Mahmoud Khalifa

2018-04-25 Thread Heather Morrison
witter.com/PLOS/status/989174553657032704?s=19 Richard On Wed, 25 Apr 2018, 16:21 Heather Morrison, <heather.morri...@uottawa.ca<mailto:heather.morri...@uottawa.ca>> wrote: The Public Library of Science has done important work in the areas of open access advocacy and open access pu

Re: [GOAL] North, South, and Open Access: The view from Egypt with Mahmoud Khalifa

2018-04-25 Thread Heather Morrison
s Kyle Siler and colleagues show in the field of global health research, the APC is adding a new stratification of researchers globally, between those who can afford open publishing in highly regarded journals, and those who can’t.' Richard On 25 April 2018 at 15:16, Heather Morrison &l

Re: [GOAL] North, South, and Open Access: The view from Egypt with Mahmoud Khalifa

2018-04-25 Thread Heather Morrison
pen access. best, Heather Morrison Associate Professor, University of Ottawa School of Information Studies Sustaining the Knowledge Commons - a SSHRC Insight Project Sustainingknowledgecommons.org Original message From: Chris Zielinski <ch...@chriszielinski.com> Date: 2018-04-25

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