[GOAL] Re: Scope of the GOAL list and discussions on open access

2011-12-28 Thread Heather Morrison
, Technical and Medical Publishers. Retrieved 2010 from http://www.stm-assoc.org/document-library/ best, Heather Morrison, MLIS Doctoral Candidate, Simon Fraser University School of Communication http://pages.cmns.sfu.ca/heather-morrison/ The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics http

[GOAL] RCUK Open Access Feedback

2012-03-14 Thread Heather Morrison
commons: http://pages.cmns.sfu.ca/heather-morrison/chapter-3-open-access-as-solution-to-the-enclosure-of-knowledge/ For practical reasons, to further text and data-mining I would suggest that the article format is more to the point than licensing. An author's final manuscript may be more likely

Re: The Green and Gold Roads to Open Access

2004-05-07 Thread Heather Morrison
Stevan Harnad wrote: The rate of new OA journal start-ups is not likely to increase substantially, because the literature is already journal-saturated, and there are few new journal niches. Most OA journal growth is hence likely to come from the conversion of existing TA (toll-access)

Re: The self-archiving sweepstakes

2004-05-27 Thread Heather Morrison
On 26-May-04, at 1:56 PM, David Goodman wrote: Is it the library that is responsible for the cost of self-archiving? Is it the library that runs the server, or pays for the Internet connection? Is it the library that does the proofreading, or scans the photographs? Many libraries do have

Distinguishing the Access Problem from the Affordability Problem

2004-05-28 Thread Heather Morrison
[Two postings from Heather Morrison, each followed by Moderator's Reply] 1. While the need for open access and the crisis in scholarly publishing are two separate issues, it is important to consider both together

Re: Open Access Journal Start-Ups: A Cost-Cutting Proposal

2004-06-08 Thread Heather Morrison
On 5-Jun-04, at 7:30 PM, David Goodman wrote: This excellent advice needs to be tempered with a major caution: institutional web sites, even OAI-compliant ones, are not necessarily secure repositories. They could be, if the institution were to make a commitment to maintaining the site, to

Open Access Copyright: Savings and Conveniences

2004-07-16 Thread Heather Morrison
Universities will experience some cost savings and conveniences arising from the more open copyright associated with OA. This is somewhat tangential to the more compelling reasons for switching to OA, of course, (the most essential of which is the need for OA to facilitate the advancement of

Re: Central versus institutional self-archiving

2004-08-09 Thread Heather Morrison
, Heather Morrison

Re: Peer Review Reform Hypothesis-Testing

2004-08-12 Thread Heather Morrison
MODERATOR'S NOTE: Because it is mainly about peer-review reform, the posting below has been re-directed from the prior Eprint versions and removals thread to: Peer Review Reform Hypothesis-Testing http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/0479.html A Note of Caution

Re: Central versus institutional self-archiving

2004-10-04 Thread Heather Morrison
greetings - Stevan Harnad wrote: Perhaps it would be a good idea if OSI subsidized authors from disadvantaged countries and institutions to provide OA to their articles by self-archiving them in their institutional archives: Then the subsidy might generate more OA articles from the same author

Re: The Green and Gold Roads to Open Access

2004-10-07 Thread Heather Morrison
. To summarize my position: IMHO, we should vigorously, and simultaneously, pursue both the green and the gold roads. Restricted access is problematic everywhere, although most notably so in poorer countries. best, Heather Morrison On 7-Oct-04, at 4:38 AM, Brian Simboli wrote: I really do think

Re: OA advantage = EA + AA + QB + OA + UA

2004-10-20 Thread Heather Morrison
On 20-Oct-04, at 10:28 AM, Stevan Harnad wrote: I think the interpretation of this is fairly clear: Once there is 100% OA, research is used far more, and although the overall number of references per article may not increase, their *selectivity* does, because authors can cite what is most

Re: Who Needs Open Access, and Why?

2004-10-24 Thread Heather Morrison
with all of our scholarly information, for everyone, not just some people. best, Heather Morrison Project Coordinator BC Electronic Library Network heath...@eln.bc.ca 604-268-7001 Fax: 604-291-3023 WAC Bennett Library University Drive Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6

Re: Evolving Publisher Copyright Policies On Self-Archiving

2004-11-09 Thread Heather Morrison
On 7-Nov-04, at 9:25 AM, Donat Agosti wrote: I am not a believer in serial arrangements, but rather parallel. I am for multitasking in this issue. We need asap the largest possible amount of open access publications to show its impact on our research, and to produce a 'fait accompli'. We need

Re: Self-Archiving vs. Self-Publishing FAQ

2004-11-12 Thread Heather Morrison
industry that is evolving just as every other industry is evolving in our world - it's just that access and publication processes are two separate issues. hope this helps, Heather Morrison On 12-Nov-04, at 7:20 AM, Rick Anderson wrote: --- Moderator's Note: This posting is redirected from

Re: Self-Archiving vs. Self-Publishing FAQ

2004-11-13 Thread Heather Morrison
to scholarly, peer-reviewed journal article publishing. Unless someone would like to talk about open access to other kinds of materials, in which case this should be specified as the exception. hope this helps, Heather Morrison On 12-Nov-04, at 4:25 PM, Stevan Harnad wrote: On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, R

Re: Priorities: OA Content Provision vs. OA Content Preservation

2004-12-05 Thread Heather Morrison
, Heather Morrison On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 14:55:40 -0500 american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org wrote: I don't think we are looking at any sort of conspiracies or doomsday scenarios. What Sally suggests is just one of the consequences that are certain in at least some small

Re: The Green and Gold Roads to Open Access

2004-12-15 Thread Heather Morrison
On 14-Dec-04, at 5:13 PM, Rick Anderson wrote: This is the part I don't get. If we're fooling ourselves to think that there's anything particularly attractive to authors about publishing in a Gold journal, then why is it a given that we should encourage and support the development of Gold

Re: Google Scholar

2005-02-16 Thread Heather Morrison
, it is not google scholar. My own searching confirms this suspicion - I am finding that if a needed item is not found in google scholar, then an open access copy may well still be found through a regular web search. hope this helps, Heather Morrison On 16-Feb-05, at 6:16 AM, Thomas Walker wrote

Re: Proposed update of BOAI definition of OA: Immediate and Permanent

2005-03-13 Thread Heather Morrison
if the method employed by the author (IR, department web site, author's home page) is securely archived. Nevertheless, these publishers have taken significant steps towards open access, which I believe need to be recognized, even if they are not the total solution. cheers, Heather Morrison On Sun, 13 Mar

Plan B: Harvard-style mandates

2008-09-15 Thread Heather Morrison
. Heather Morrison, MLIS The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com

Re: Suber/Harnad Statement in support of the investigative work of Richard Poynder

2008-10-06 Thread Heather Morrison
for this statement of support. Any opinion expressed in this e-mail is that of the author alone, and does not represent the opinion or policy of BC Electronic Library Network or Simon Fraser University Library. Heather Morrison, MLIS The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics http

Re: On Metrics and Metaphysics

2008-10-19 Thread Heather Morrison
Electronic Library Network or Simon Fraser University Library. Heather Morrison, MLIS The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com

Re: On Metrics and Metaphysics

2008-10-19 Thread Heather Morrison
Library Network or Simon Fraser University Library. Heather Morrison, MLIS The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com On 19-Oct-08, at 8:25 PM, Stevan Harnad wrote: On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Heather Morrison heath...@eln.bc.ca wrote: Biology - species

Re: Alma Swan on Reasons researchers really rate repositories

2008-11-04 Thread Heather Morrison
am a member of the E-LIS Governance Team]. Any opinion expressed in this e-mail is that of the author alone, and does not represent the opinion or policy of BC Electronic Library Network or Simon Fraser University Library. Heather Morrison, MLIS The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics http

Who benefits from the University of Calgary authors' fund?

2008-11-19 Thread Heather Morrison
Any opinion expressed in this e-mail is that of the author alone, and does not represent the opinion or policy of BC Electronic Library Network or Simon Fraser University Library. Heather Morrison, MLIS The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com

Re: STM Publisher Briefing on Institution Repository Deposit Mandates

2009-01-19 Thread Heather Morrison
of BC Electronic Library Network or Simon Fraser University Library. Heather Morrison, MLIS The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com On 19-Jan-09, at 3:49 PM, Stevan Harnad wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Sally Morris (Morris Associates) sa...@morris

Re: Repositories: Institutional or Central ? emergent properties and the compulsory open society

2009-02-10 Thread Heather Morrison
Fraser University Library. Heather Morrison, MLIS The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com

Copyright: example of rights-sharing with copyright transfer

2009-02-15 Thread Heather Morrison
approach to traditional copyright, some articles are actually published with no transfer of copyright at all. Any opinion expessed in this e-mail is that of the author alone, and does not represent the opinion or policy of BC Electronic Library Network or Simon Fraser University Library. Heather

Re: [SOAF] Another Winning Article From OA's Chronicler and Conscience: Richard Poynder

2009-03-13 Thread Heather Morrison
of administrative work down the line for faculty. Any opinion expressed in this e-mail is that of the author alone, and does not represent the opinion or policy of BC Electronic Library Network or Simon Fraser University Library. Heather Morrison, MLIS The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics

Dramatic Growth of Open Access - March 31, 2009

2009-04-01 Thread Heather Morrison
/2009/03/dramatic-growth-of-open- access-march-31.html Any opinion expressed in this e-mail is that of the author alone, and does not represent the opinion or policy of BC Electronic Library Network or Simon Fraser University Library. Heather Morrison, MLIS The Imaginary Journal of Poetic

Re: Funder Grant Conditions, Fundee/Institutional Compliance, and 3rd-Party Gobbledy-Gook

2009-06-30 Thread Heather Morrison
Library. Heather Morrison, MLIS The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com

Re: Submission Fees (was: RE: Overlay Journals Over Again...)

2009-07-05 Thread Heather Morrison
in this e-mail is that of the author alone, and does not represent the opinion or policy of BC Electronic Library Network or Simon Fraser University Libraries. Heather Morrison, MLIS The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com

Re: [CLS Junk released by Allow List] Re: Submission Fees (was: RE: Overlay Journals Over Again...)

2009-07-05 Thread Heather Morrison
become the world's largest - perhaps in 2010? - it would be nice to know. Any opinion expressed in this e-mail is that of the author alone, and does not represent the opinion or policy of BC Electronic Library Network or Simon Fraser University Library. Heather Morrison heath...@eln.bc.ca Sent

The dramatic growth of PLoS One: soon-to-be world's largest journal

2009-07-06 Thread Heather Morrison
Electronic Library Network or Simon Fraser University Library. Heather Morrison, MLIS Author, Scholarly Communication for Librarians, Chandos Publishing 2009 http://www.woodheadpublishing.com/en/book.aspx? bookID=1864ChandosTitle=1 The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics http

correction re: The dramatic growth of PLoS One: soon-to-be world's largest journal

2009-07-07 Thread Heather Morrison
Any opinion expressed in this e-mail is that of the author alone, and does not represent the opinion or policy of BC Electronic Library Network or Simon Fraser University Library. Heather Morrison, MLIS Author, Scholarly Communication for Librarians, Chandos Publishing 2009 http

Re: Authors Re-using Their Own Work

2009-08-02 Thread Heather Morrison
-mail is that of the author alone, and does not represent the opinion or policy of BC Electronic Library Network or Simon Fraser University Library. Heather Morrison, MLIS The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com

Re: Authors Re-using Their Own Work

2009-08-02 Thread Heather Morrison
Electronic Library Network or Simon Fraser University Library. Heather Morrison, MLIS The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com

Compact for Open Access Publishing Equity: key to transitioning to open access

2009-09-17 Thread Heather Morrison
. There are good reasons for pursuing both strategies, both in the short and the long term. Heather Morrison, MLIS The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com

Re: COPE, HOPE and OA

2009-09-27 Thread Heather Morrison
publishing is the most compatible approach to filling archives; there are no barriers, no restrictions, no embargoes. Heather Morrison, MLIS The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com

Re: Avoiding hyperinflation in Gold OA

2009-09-29 Thread Heather Morrison
have made best efforts to secure funding from their research grants. Heather Morrison, MLIS The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com hgmor...@sfu.ca

Re: Growth rate of OA mandates?

2010-01-15 Thread Heather Morrison
of business models has proven the point that OA is feasible from a business perspective, a tipping point that made one old argument simply go away. best, Heather Morrison, MLIS PhD Student, SFU School of Communication http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com

Re: Creating Institutional Repositories Is Not the Problem

2010-01-16 Thread Heather Morrison
institutions could be as simple as a space within the repository of a larger institution. Most library consortia, in my experience, are responsive to members' needs; that is, a service like this is set up once it is known that members desire such a service. Heather Morrison The Imaginary Journal

Open and Evolving Scholarship

2010-01-16 Thread Heather Morrison
to point to a free copy whenever possible. Or, if you read the free copy, cite the subscription journal version. This is a brief version of a blogpost which can be found at: http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2010/01/open-and-evolving-scholarship.html Heather Morrison, MLIS, PhD Student

Re: Roundtable Press Release (Access to Research Results)

2010-01-17 Thread Heather Morrison
damage to existing journals, publishers, and societies Heather Morrison, MLIS The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com

Re: OA's Three Bogeymen

2010-02-17 Thread Heather Morrison
dissemination. Rapid adoption of, and support for, scholar-led open access publishing using tools such as OJS could very quickly eliminate the bottleneck described in the above article. Heather Morrison, MLIS PhD Student Simon Fraser University School of Communication The Imaginary Journal

Re: Facing up to fraud - China's exponential research growth could fuel fraud

2010-02-19 Thread Heather Morrison
familiar with are producing top-notch work, of a quality that I myself would do well to aspire to. best, Heather Morrison, MLIS PhD student Simon Fraser University School of Communication The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com

Wikipedia and open access

2010-05-19 Thread Heather Morrison
biases (possibly not just gender) reflected in Wikipedia, simply because people add what they like and no one has responsibility for seeing to equity in representation? Heather Morrison The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com

Re: Springer and Helmholtz Association sign agreement for open access membership

2010-08-23 Thread Heather Morrison
congrats to Springer and Helmholtz! Heather Morrison, MLIS PhD Student, SFU School of Communication http://pages.cmns.sfu.ca/heather-morrison/

Re: Mandates: Practical Questions

2010-09-01 Thread Heather Morrison
Journal Systems found, among other things, that most of these journals are scholar-led, and indeed, much cheaper, with an average cost of $188 per article produced. http://openarchive.stanford.edu/handle/10408/134 This is a small subset of the over 5,000 journals using OJS. Heather Morrison, MLIS PhD

Re: Mandates: Practical Questions

2010-09-02 Thread Heather Morrison
, among other things - still needs to happen. best, Heather Morrison, MLIS PhD Student, SFU School of Communication http://pages.cmns.sfu.ca/heather-morrison/ The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com

Gold OA article growth 5.7 times total article growth: corrected citation

2010-12-21 Thread Heather Morrison
at Buffalo abwag...@buffalo.edu On 12/20/2010 5:40 PM, Heather Morrison wrote: According to this chart by Thompson-Reuters, gold OA article growth (at 20%) is 5.7 times higher than total article growth (at 3.5%). http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Temp/springergoldgrowth.png (Thanks to Springer via

[GOAL] Re: Taylor Francis Opens Access with new OA Program!

2011-12-16 Thread Heather Morrison
largest commercial publishers of peer-reviewed scientific, technical, and medical (STM) journals. From: http://www.scribd.com/doc/26391556/Reprints-Desk-Adds-Informa-Healthcare-Titles-to-Document-Delivery-Service best, Heather Morrison Doctoral Candidate, Simon Fraser University School

[GOAL] RCUK Open Access Feedback

2012-03-14 Thread Heather Morrison
of the poor with the rich. This is one of the reasons why I strongly recommend that the developing world avoid CC-BY. I cover this topic in more depth in the third chapter of my draft thesis - from the link below, search for open access and creative commons: http://pages.cmns.sfu.ca/heather-morrison

[GOAL] Re: Reaching for the Reachable

2012-07-12 Thread Heather Morrison
. my two bits, Heather Morrison, MLIS Doctoral Candidate, Simon Fraser University School of Communication http://pages.cmns.sfu.ca/heather-morrison/ The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com ___ GOAL mailing list

[GOAL] Re: Finding a business model for a growing Open Access Journal

2012-07-19 Thread Heather Morrison
these would be good places to look for friends and champions: http://roarmap.eprints.org/ best, Heather Morrison On 19-Jul-12, at 5:17 AM, Peter Murray-Rust wrote: I am forwarding a message from the OKFN's open-access list (http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-access which uses

[GOAL] Re: Update on Ulrichs estimate of total number of active peer-reviewed journals: 55, 311

2012-08-03 Thread Heather Morrison
reviewed journals. This should be considered an estimate rather than an exact figure, because my deduplication method is not perfect. My method and calculations are explained in this brief appendix to my draft thesis: http://pages.cmns.sfu.ca/heather-morrison/appendix-c-how-many-active

[GOAL] Re: Fwd: Fee-free scholarly publishing

2012-08-16 Thread Heather Morrison
to compete - there is room for profit, but not at the 30% profit margins that a select few have become accustomed to. best, Heather Morrison On 2012-08-16, at 10:13 AM, Peter Suber wrote: See William Walters and Anne Linvill (August 2010): While just 29 percent of OA journals charge

[GOAL] CC-BY and - or versus - open access

2012-08-17 Thread Heather Morrison
be given to this before it is recommended as a standard for open access. best, Heather Morrison, MLIS Doctoral Candidate, Simon Fraser University School of Communication http://pages.cmns.sfu.ca/heather-morrison/ The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com

[GOAL] Re: [SCHOLCOMM] CC-BY and - or versus - open access

2012-08-21 Thread Heather Morrison
giving a second's thought to subsidizing for-profit commercial publishers. my two bits, Heather Morrison On 2012-08-21, at 10:09 AM, Wilhelmina Randtke wrote: Something that hasn't come up yet: The open access model has, usually, an author as an individual, then a separate publisher. A different

[GOAL] How easy is it to find your IR? Recommending a 5-minute test

2012-09-14 Thread Heather Morrison
Aside from the important work of developing and implementing good open access policy and cultivating the practices of the few keystrokes needed for self-archiving, I would like to suggest that one small step that many institutions with a less-than-full IR might want to consider to advance the

[GOAL] Re: A special issue on Open Access in Latin America

2012-10-06 Thread Heather Morrison
argue that this kind of development is more problematic than helpful, and ultimately may result in erosion of support for these leading open access initiatives. best, Heather Morrison - Original Message - From: Bo-Christer Björk bo-christer.bj...@hanken.fi To: Global Open Access List

[GOAL] Thank you, open access movement! September 30, 2012 Dramatic Growth of Open Access

2012-10-06 Thread Heather Morrison
a million free movies, thanks to the Internet Archive! best, Heather Morrison http://pages.cmns.sfu.ca/heather-morrison/ ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal

[GOAL] CC-BY: the wrong goal for open access, and neither necessary nor sufficient for data and text mining

2012-10-09 Thread Heather Morrison
for Scholarship in the Internet Age. The defence draft is available for download from here: http://pages.cmns.sfu.ca/heather-morrison/2012/10/04/dissertation-defence-draft/ See chapter 4 on open access and chapter 8, conclusions. These arguments are not meant to be exhaustive, but rather

[GOAL] Re: Europe PubMed as a home for all RCUK research outputs?

2012-10-09 Thread Heather Morrison
subsidies for article processing fees. best, Heather MOrrison On 2012-10-09, at 10:03 AM, Ross Mounce wrote: 'Pirate copies'... now there's an interesting topic for the list. I am a member of several social networking sites used by academics e.g. Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed etc... and more

[GOAL] Re: CC-BY: the wrong goal for open access, and neither necessary nor sufficient for data and text mining

2012-10-09 Thread Heather Morrison
to pursue at this time]. best, Heather Morrison ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal

[GOAL] Springer for sale - implications for open access?

2012-10-10 Thread Heather Morrison
the traditions for decades and centuries that would be needed to ensure ongoing open access. best, Heather Morrison, MLIS Doctoral Candidate, Simon Fraser University School of Communication http://pages.cmns.sfu.ca/heather-morrison/ The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics http

[GOAL] Re: Springer for sale - implications for open access?

2012-10-10 Thread Heather Morrison
are owned and/or controlled by private interests, this is problematic. best, Heather Morrison, MLIS Doctoral Candidate, Simon Fraser University School of Communication http://pages.cmns.sfu.ca/heather-morrison/ The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com

[GOAL] Re: Springer for sale - implications for open access?

2012-10-11 Thread Heather Morrison
storing, preserving, and making the works OA? best, Heather Morrison ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal

[GOAL] Canadian Journal of Communication is a not-so-bad role model

2012-10-15 Thread Heather Morrison
look into providing infrastructure and support for them so that they can move into an online OA future, assuming RCUK can afford to subsidize publishing. my two bits, Heather Morrison ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http

[GOAL] Why CC-BY presents ethical and legal risk issues

2012-10-27 Thread Heather Morrison
element of BOAI 10 that I regard as a serious error to be avoided. Heather Morrison, MLIS Doctoral Candidate, Simon Fraser University School of Communication http://pages.cmns.sfu.ca/heather-morrison/ The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com

[GOAL] Re: R Poynder Interviews I Gibson About 2004 UK Select Committee Green OA Mandate Recommendation

2012-10-29 Thread Heather Morrison
, there are a number of very actively promoted IRs. Currently, what we are discussing at BC Electronic Library Network is a collaborative approach to ensure that all BC post-secondaries have access to this important service. best, Heather Morrison pages.cmns.sfu.ca/heather-morrison/ On 2012-10-29, at 12:53 PM

[GOAL] Re: [Open-access] Re: Hitler, Mother Teresa, and Coke

2012-11-07 Thread Heather Morrison
matters: global average temperature. Any other metrics are a distraction. This latter is an example of what I call a society-wide trend toward irrational rationality, discussed at some length in my draft dissertation: http://pages.cmns.sfu.ca/heather-morrison/2012/10/04/dissertation-defence

[GOAL] McGraw Hill Education buyout by private equity firm: implications for open access

2012-11-27 Thread Heather Morrison
-of-worlds-giant-textbook-publishers.html Heather G. Morrison, PhD Simon Fraser University School of Communication http://pages.cmns.sfu.ca/heather-morrison/ ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal

[GOAL] Dramatic Growth of Open Access early year-end edition

2012-12-13 Thread Heather Morrison
numbers and a link to the open data edition, see the blogpost: http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/2012/12/dramatic-growth-of-open-access-2012.html Happy Holidays! Heather Morrison, MLIS, PhD Simon Fraser University School of Communication http://pages.cmns.sfu.ca/heather-morrison/ The Imaginary

[GOAL] Re: History journals and open access

2012-12-17 Thread Heather Morrison
and researchers got together to facilitate sharing that predates Creative Commons. Heather Morrison, PhD http://pages.cmns.sfu.ca/heather-morrison/ On 2012-12-17, at 7:53 AM, Frederick Friend wrote: The “Statement on position in relation to open access” issued by the Editors of twenty-one

[GOAL] Thank you Jeffrey Beall!

2012-12-18 Thread Heather Morrison
, Heather Morrison, PhD The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com On 18-Dec-12, at 9:48 AM, Peter Suber wrote: [Forwarding from Jeffrey Beall, via the ScholComm list. --Peter Suber.] Colleagues, I am the author of Scholarly Open Access, a blog

[GOAL] A Happy Open Access New Year!

2012-12-31 Thread Heather Morrison
concerts 1,474,756 recordings 3,781,142 texts (new in 2012) Details and further commentary: http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/2012/12/december-31-2012-dramatic-growth-of.html Thank you to everyone who is making this happen, and all the best to you your OA endeavours in 2013. Dr. Heather Morrison

[GOAL] New Year's challenge for repository developers and managers: awesome cross-search

2013-01-02 Thread Heather Morrison
The Digital Commons Network has created an awesome repositories cross-search tool - with a signficant limitation, that this is limited to the Digital Commons platform. My challenge for repository developers and managers: are you developing your platforms and repositories to facilitate

[GOAL] A simple definition for open access: a proposal to open the discussion

2013-01-08 Thread Heather Morrison
dissertation with even more detail, can be found at: http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/2013/01/a-simple-definition-for-open-access_8.html Respectful comments and questions are welcome and encouraged. Heather Morrison, PhD http://pages.cmns.sfu.ca/heather-morrison/ The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics

[GOAL] Cost effectiveness for open access journals

2013-01-12 Thread Heather Morrison
Thanks to Eigenfactor.org and journalprices.com for this chart. Good to see lots of dots on the upper left-hand side: high influence, low cost! http://www.eigenfactor.org/openaccess/ Heather G. Morrison ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org

[GOAL] Re: [sparc-oaforum] JSTOR announces free limited reading access to its journal archive

2013-01-14 Thread Heather Morrison
in the results. best, Heather Morrison On 2013-01-14, at 8:59 AM, Omega Alpha | Open Access wrote: JSTOR announces free limited reading access to its journal archive http://wp.me/p20y83-zK I am an academic librarian at a small liberal arts college. I am committed, within the confines

[GOAL] House of Lords submissions: possible resources on embargoes

2013-01-16 Thread Heather Morrison
for OA policy. best, Heather Morrison, PhD Freedom for scholarship in the internet age https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/thesis/etd7530 ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal

[GOAL] House of Lords open access enquiry: my response

2013-01-17 Thread Heather Morrison
freely available. Therefore I suggest that it would be quite appropriate to set a maximum embargo of no more than one year regardless of discipline. Thank you very much for the opportunity to participate in this consultation. best, Heather Morrison, PhD Freedom for scholarship in the internet

[GOAL] Re: House of Lords open access enquiry: my response

2013-01-17 Thread Heather Morrison
open access, and that the eventual goal is to gradually reduce and then eliminate embargoes. Embargoes are a concession to existing publishers; the public has a right to access the results of publicly funded research with no delay. (added Jan. 17, 2013). best, Heather Morrison On 2013-01-16

[GOAL] Open access innovations in the humanities social sciences

2013-01-18 Thread Heather Morrison
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:

[GOAL] Re: If the sciences can do it… PLOHSS: A PLOS-style model for the humanities and social sciences

2013-01-18 Thread Heather Morrison
, but it is also true that a large portion of the world's STM journals are still being published by Elsevier. best, Heather Morrison On 2013-01-18, at 11:03 AM, Jean-Claude Guédon wrote: The idea of a PLOHSS is one I have discussed with at least one person who works for PLOS. Personally, I believe

[GOAL] Re: Please distinguish what is and is not relevant to mandating Green OA self-archiving

2013-01-20 Thread Heather Morrison
On 20-Jan-13, at 2:25 PM, Jean-Claude Guédon wrote: (excerpt) Some forms of Gold do not require any more payment than what is needed to maintain a repository. In fact, an OA Gold journal is a repository of its own articles. Comment: a gold OA journal serves as a repository, however it is

[GOAL] Re: Please distinguish what is and is not relevant to mandating Green OA self-archiving

2013-01-21 Thread Heather Morrison
- many an IR service now needs to go about the task of fulfilling this promise. best, Heather Morrison The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com On 2013-01-21, at 8:02 AM, Jean-Claude Guédon wrote: No quarrel with all this. I just wanted to point out

[GOAL] Sage Open price now $99

2013-01-24 Thread Heather Morrison
the inelastic market for scholarly journals to competition? best, Heather G. Morrison, PhD Freedom for scholarship in the internet age http://pages.cmns.sfu.ca/heather-morrison/2012/12/12/freedom-for-scholarship-in-the-internet-age-post-defence-version/ ___ GOAL

[GOAL] Is $99 per article realistic and compatible with profits - or too high a price?

2013-01-25 Thread Heather Morrison
Some reflections on the Sage OPEN $99 per article news Sridar Gutam on the GOAL list has pointed out that even this APF, for a scholar from India, is far too high a price. Even in the West, I hear that there are rumblings on HSS listservs that scholars are up in arms about what looks like an

[GOAL] correction Re: Is $99 per article realistic and compatible with profits - or too high a price?

2013-01-25 Thread Heather Morrison
world, for example, might be able to lower their costs on this score by taking advantage of the AuthorAID program http://www.authoraid.info/ best, Heather Morrison On 2013-01-25, at 2:32 PM, Heather Morrison wrote: Some reflections on the Sage OPEN $99 per article news Sridar Gutam on the GOAL

[GOAL] Re: Is $99 per article realistic and compatible with profits - or too high a price?

2013-01-26 Thread Heather Morrison
Morrison The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com≠ Marcin On 01/25/2013 11:32 PM, Heather Morrison wrote: Some reflections on the Sage OPEN $99 per article news Sridar Gutam on the GOAL list has pointed out that even this APF, for a scholar from India

[GOAL] Re: Is $99 per article realistic and compatible with profits - or too high a price?

2013-01-28 Thread Heather Morrison
party, after all; and the lack of restrictions inherent in CC-BY means that others can place more restrictions on the work downstream. If we don't want this to happen, we should use Sharealike (SA). best, Heather Morrison The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics http

[GOAL] Re: Is $99 per article realistic and compatible with profits - or too high a price?

2013-01-28 Thread Heather Morrison
but retains the author's moral rights. best, Heather Morrison ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal

[GOAL] Re: Is $99 per article realistic and compatible with profits - or too high a price?

2013-01-28 Thread Heather Morrison
that it is wise to count on the ethics of snake oil purveyors. best, Heather Morrison On 28-Jan-13, at 8:06 PM, Arthur Sale wrote: Before this goes too far, let's establish that commercial re-use is possible and is used. Scholars may not be averse to it. I have in mind monitoring

[GOAL] Re: Is $99 per article realistic and compatible with profits - or too high a price?

2013-01-28 Thread Heather Morrison
options and deciding that it makes sense to use noncommercial. Note that the majority in this sub-list still are not using CC licenses at all. To summarize: there is evidence that given a choice, scientists tend to prefer CC licenses including the noncommercial element. best, Heather Morrison

[GOAL] Re: Is $99 per article realistic and compatible with profits - or too high a price?

2013-01-29 Thread Heather Morrison
can say is that it appears that many fully open access journals, even in the sciences, either do not use CC licenses at all, or if they do, CC-BY is not the obvious and ubiquitous choice. best, Heather Morrison, PhD The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com

[GOAL] Re: Is $99 per article realistic and compatible with profits - or too high a price?

2013-01-29 Thread Heather Morrison
they find the services useful. best, Heather Morrison On 2013-01-29, at 5:08 AM, Marcin Wojnarski wrote: On 01/28/2013 10:44 PM, Heather Morrison wrote: Question: are you saying that allowing any third party to make use of a scholar's work to advertise their own products and/or to sell

[GOAL] Re: Is $99 per article realistic and compatible with profits - or too high a price?

2013-01-29 Thread Heather Morrison
retains this volume. If other publishers offer authors a choice of CC licenses, and not all authors prefer CC-BY, this could give PLoS ONE competitors a bit of an edge. best, Heather Morrison, PhD The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com

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