Re: [GOAL] [SCHOLCOMM] Fostering Bibliodiversity in Scholarly Communications: A Call for Action
I believe the ones who "really live and breathe these issues on a daily basis" are actually the researchers and public and policy makers who can't get access to research they need to improve society. They, and many others who share their views (myself included), don't participate in the OSI discussions because they just plain start from the wrong place. The "needs" of publishers shouldn't matter any more than the "needs" of travel agents mattered, I believe. Some of us are listed in the OSI website because we dipped our toe in before realizing that it wasn't a group where our time was best spent. Heather --- Heather Piwowar, cofounder Our Research <https://ourresearch.org/>: We build tools to make scholarly research more open, connected, and reusable—for everyone. follow at @researchremix <https://twitter.com/researchremix>, @our_research <https://twitter.com/our_research>, and @unpaywall <https://twitter.com/unpaywall> On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 10:09 AM Glenn Hampson wrote: > Hi Peter, > > > > Sorry. The web list can be hard to parse because it’s alphabetical by > first name and not sortable by stakeholder group, plus it hasn’t been > updated in a while. But there are actually around a dozen active > researchers in OSI (actually more---that’s just their “primary” designation > for “accounting” purposes but they can also be a the head of a research > organization and an active researcher at the same time), several medical > doctors (but again, this isn’t a stakeholder group---these folks may > instead be categorized as a journal editor or university official), and > representatives from 28 countries in all regions of the world. Most of our > current and former OSIers are from the US and Europe, but broadening our > international representation is something we’ve been working on for a > while. > > > > In the common ground report you’ll find a table showing the most recent > count of current participants and their stakeholder “designations” (it’s > more detailed than the pie chart from before). This said, as Kathleen has > noted, one shouldn’t read into this that x% of the conversation on the OSI > list comes from library officials, or y% from commercial publishers. I > would say that most of the ongoing deliberation on the list is between > scholarly communication analysts and library leaders who really live and > breathe these issues on a daily basis. > > > > *Stakeholder group* > > *Number of participants (Dec 2019)* > > *Percent of OSI group* > > Research universities > > 56 > > 14% > > Libraries & library groups > > 51 > > 13% > > Commercial publishers > > 39 > > 10% > > Open groups and publishers > > 37 > > 9% > > Industry analysts > > 36 > > 9% > > Government policy groups > > 35 > > 9% > > Non-university research institutions > > 21 > > 5% > > Scholcomm experts > > 20 > > 5% > > Scholarly societies > > 19 > > 5% > > Faculty groups > > 16 > > 4% > > University publishers > > 16 > > 4% > > Funders > > 14 > > 4% > > Active researchers > > 9 > > 2% > > Editors > > 8 > > 2% > > Journalists > > 6 > > 2% > > Tech industry > > 5 > > 1% > > Infrastructure groups > > 3 > > 1% > > Other universities > > 2 > > 1% > > Elected officials > > 1 > > 0% > > TOTAL > > 394 > > 100% > > > > I hope this helps. > > > > Best regards, > > > > Glenn > > > > > > *Glenn Hampson* > *Executive Director* > *Science Communication Institute (SCI) <http://sci.institute>* > > *Program Director**Open Scholarship Initiative (OSI) > <http://osiglobal.org>* > > <http://osiglobal.org> > > > > > > > > *From:* Peter Murray-Rust > *Sent:* Tuesday, April 21, 2020 9:23 AM > *To:* Glenn Hampson > *Cc:* Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) ; > Samuel Moore ; The Open Scholarship Initiative < > osi2016...@googlegroups.com>; scholcomm > *Subject:* Re: [GOAL] [SCHOLCOMM] Fostering Bibliodiversity in Scholarly > Communications: A Call for Action > > > > Thanks for outlining this. There are 300-400 people on the OSI list. I > could not find: > * any researchers > * any doctors/medics > * anyone from the Global South > > But there are 9 directors from Elsevier. > And everyone else is director of this, chief of that, CEO of the other. > > In the early days of OA in UK The > https://www.gov.uk/government/news/governm
[GOAL] new preprint: The Future of OA: a large scale analysis
Hi all, Since preprints can be hard to discover sometimes, I wanted to alert you to a preprint we just posted about OA. It is the largest, most comprehensive analysis ever to predict the future of Open Access. *Given existing trends, we estimate that by 2025:* - *44% of all journal articles will be available as OA* - *70% of all article views will be to OA articles* We've got a few blog posts up summarizing and highlighting the findings: https://blog.ourresearch.org/future-of-oa/ (links to more at bottom of first post), and here's the citation: Piwowar, Priem, Orr (2019) The Future of OA: A large-scale analysis projecting Open Access publication and readership. bioRxiv: https://doi.org/10.1101/795310 Love to hear your feedback! Heather -- Heather Piwowar, cofounder Our Research <https://our-research.org/>: We build tools to make scholarly research more open, connected, and reusable—for everyone. follow at @researchremix <https://twitter.com/researchremix>, @our_research <https://twitter.com/our_research>, and @unpaywall <https://twitter.com/unpaywall> ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
Re: [GOAL] Unpaywall: Our new Chrome extension finds OA as you browse
Thanks! :) No plans for a Safari version right now...the number of Safari users is relatively small and we're trying not to spread ourselves too thin. Our code is open <https://github.com/impactstory/unpaywall>, though, so if anyone else wants to, they are more than welcome! Heather -- Heather Piwowar cofounder of Impactstory <http://impactstory.org/>: share the full story of your research impact. working from Vancouver, Canada @researchremix <http://twitter.com/#!/researchremix> and @Impactstory <https://twitter.com/ImpactStory> On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 12:01 AM, wrote: > Hello, > > Congratulations ! > Any plans on developing a Safari extension ? > Thanks. > > Bernard Rentier, Liège, Belgium > > > > > Le 17 mars 2017 à 07:28, Heather Piwowar a > écrit : > > > Our nonprofit Impactstory just released Unpaywall, an open-source > Chrome/Firefox extension that links you to OA as you browse research > articles. Hit a paywall? No problem: click the green tab, read it free. > > Here's why it's game changing: it's not just great for OA Nerds like all > of us, it's great for EVERYONE. People just trying to get their work done, > but stuck behind paywalls. It's easy, pretty, and brings the power of > legal #OA straight to make lives better. > > We’ve had thousands of installations in our first few days, and we’re > we’re aiming for ten thousand by the end of the month. We want everyone in > the world to have a “read it free” button next to the “pay us money” button > on research articles, powered by open access in repositories worldwide. > > We’d love your help spreading the word. Install it, > <http://unpaywall.org/> tweet it, email it, tell your friends. And let us > know what you think...we’re still improving Unpaywall daily. > > Thanks, and let’s keep fighting for open access together! > > Jason and Heather > > @impactstory > > ps we couldn’t help it, it’s still great for OA Nerds like us: we put an > an Expert Setting in there that shows you which papers are gold or green OA > :) > > pps apologies for cross-posting > > > -- > Heather Piwowar > cofounder of Impactstory <http://impactstory.org/>: share the full story > of your research impact. > @researchremix <http://twitter.com/#!/researchremix> and @Impactstory > <https://twitter.com/ImpactStory> > > ___ > GOAL mailing list > GOAL@eprints.org > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal > > ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
[GOAL] Unpaywall: Our new Chrome extension finds OA as you browse
Our nonprofit Impactstory just released Unpaywall, an open-source Chrome/Firefox extension that links you to OA as you browse research articles. Hit a paywall? No problem: click the green tab, read it free. Here's why it's game changing: it's not just great for OA Nerds like all of us, it's great for EVERYONE. People just trying to get their work done, but stuck behind paywalls. It's easy, pretty, and brings the power of legal #OA straight to make lives better. We’ve had thousands of installations in our first few days, and we’re we’re aiming for ten thousand by the end of the month. We want everyone in the world to have a “read it free” button next to the “pay us money” button on research articles, powered by open access in repositories worldwide. We’d love your help spreading the word. Install it, <http://unpaywall.org/> tweet it, email it, tell your friends. And let us know what you think...we’re still improving Unpaywall daily. Thanks, and let’s keep fighting for open access together! Jason and Heather @impactstory ps we couldn’t help it, it’s still great for OA Nerds like us: we put an an Expert Setting in there that shows you which papers are gold or green OA :) pps apologies for cross-posting -- Heather Piwowar cofounder of Impactstory <http://impactstory.org/>: share the full story of your research impact. @researchremix <http://twitter.com/#!/researchremix> and @Impactstory <https://twitter.com/ImpactStory> ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
