Ashry Aly is a former employee of Hindawi Publishing Corporation who left
the company in 2007 to found Ashdin Publishing
Ashdin Publishing is currently included on Jeffrey Beall's list of predatory
publishers:
http://scholarlyoa.com/2012/12/06/bealls-list-of-predatory-publishers-2013/
Aly
Apologies, as ever, for cross positing. A new Inquiry on Open Access in the UK Parliament. This is a committee of MPs who scrutinise the workings of our Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS). Universities and research funding sit under this department.David
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The issue of books has always been a difficult terrain within the OA
community. A narrow interpretation of Open Access tends to limit its
reach to journal articles, and this choice has the obvious advantage of
leaving the issue of royalties aside. However, it should be remembered
that scholars who
I'd like to mention that some funding agencies and initiatives which have
already launched some interesting initiatives which fund OA books or are
prepared to do it in the future:
OAPEN: http://www.oapen.org/home
Austrian Science Fund (FWF):
Recommendations of the European Commission
on Open Access : GFII’s first comments
11 January 2013
On July 17, 2012, the European Commission issued a recommendation encouraging
the Member States to make necessary arrangements to disseminate publicly funded
research through open access
Let's please distinguish between (1) mandating (requiring) to do X and (2)
offering
a subsidy to do X.
Gratis Green OA self-archiving of journal articles can be and is being mandated,
unproblematically (with the ID/OA Immediate-Deposit/Optional OA compromise).
Finding the money to pay for Gold
If the sciences can do it… PLOHSS: A PLOS-style model for the humanities and
social sciences http://wp.me/p20y83-BF
The Public Library of Science (PLOS) was founded in 2000 as an advocacy group
promoting open access to scientific literature in the face of increasingly
prohibitive journal costs
Stevan, I do not really understand your distinction.
a) A book is an article but a bit longer and vice versa. (By the way, OA could
dissolve that difference.)
b) At least in some countries, research monographs and collected volumes were
subsidised for decades by public funders, but just
The open access movement tends to talk a lot about sciences. Let's applaud and
recognize the many scholars and initiatives leading in open access in the
humanities and social sciences.
The Directory of Open Access Journals lists 1,689 journals under the Social
Sciences browse:
The idea of a PLOHSS is one I have discussed with at least one person
who works for PLOS. Personally, I believe the PLOS solution is extremely
important in that it contributes to separating scholarship quality from
journal editorial lines. In other words, in a PLOS-like journal, if the
work is
It seems that we are equating PLoS with PLoS ONE, the megajournal. Is PLoS
planning to abandon its original strategy of producing top-quality journals to
compete with the likes of Nature and Science? If not, some thought about how to
talk about this might be a good idea. Along this vein, I am
Thanks Jean-Claude Guédon and Falk Reckling for your comments. It is
difficult to answer them succinctly, but I will try.
1. There is a substantial difference between books and articles in the
current situation. Almost no researcher reads the printed copy of a journal
article any more:
Le samedi 19 janvier 2013 à 10:14 +1100, Arthur Sale a écrit :
Thanks Jean-Claude Guédon and Falk Reckling for your comments. It is
difficult to answer them succinctly, but I will try.
1. There is a substantial difference between books and articles in
the current situation.
Heather,
PLOS ONE is only one of seven journals published by PLOS. I'm not aware that
PLOS has any plans to abandon its original strategy. Martin should probably be
invited to offer his own description and intention (I don't know if he is on
this list). It does seem, however, that it is
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