Thank you for this, Hélène.
I may not have expressed my thought clearly enough. While doing what
Hélène's mathematician was trying to do is probably difficult,
organizing peer review around a journal has been going on for a long
time. In the nineteenth century, the dominant model was that f
On 15th May 2012, the UK'S EPSRC issued a reminder on their OA policy in
their Connect newsletter. This article available (freely) here:
http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/newsevents/pubs/mags/connect/2012/86/Pages/ccesstoresea
rchpublications.aspx
or via tinyurl since my mail handler will split the line
Surely hybrid journals are a reasonable way of testing authors' ability (or
will) to go Gold OA (i.e. make the final, published version freely
available)? Authors say that's what they want to do (not just 'preprints',
however, interpreted) but few seem able, or willing, to pay for it.
If the
Dear All,
I've been following this debate with interest from the sidelines for a
few days. As some of you may have noticed our research has in the last
couple of years been focused on providing empirical facts about OA. Here
are a few very recent findings.
Hybrid OA is a failure, the main
On 2012-05-16, at 12:05 PM, Bo-Christer Björk wrote:
[1] Hybrid OA is a failure...an uptake of 1-2% of eligible article and less
than 1 % of the global article volume.
[2] Gold OA published in DOAJ registered journals has continued growing at
around 20 % per annum... The share of all
Interesting - an OA journal about OA research!
Charles
Professor Charles Oppenheim
--- On Wed, 16/5/12, Marisa L. Ramirez mrami...@calpoly.edu wrote:
From: Marisa L. Ramirez mrami...@calpoly.edu
Subject: Inaugural Issue of Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly
Communication
Just to close the issue in every tense, including the subjunctive:
I agree with Jean-Claude that, ideally, editorial boards should be chosen by
scholars themselves.
Scholars should have taken charge of this responsibility, but they didn't.
Scholars should not have let publishers take charge of
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