[GOAL] Re: [***SPAM***] Don't Conflate OA with Peer-Review Reform

2013-12-11 Thread Peter Murray-Rust
In the Open Knowledge Foundation we have a mailing list for exactly that purpose and everyone will be very welcome there: https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-access We take the view that open access as defined in BBB - declarations is the appropriate use of the term: BOAI 2002: By

[GOAL] Re: [Open-access] Institutional deposits and retracted papers

2013-12-11 Thread Ulrich Herb
Dear Florence, perhaps this might be of interest: Davis, P. M. (2012). The persistence of error : a study of retracted articles on the Internet and in personal libraries. Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA, 100(July). doi:10.3163/1536-5050.100.3.008,

[GOAL] Re: [***SPAM***] Don't Conflate OA with Peer-Review Reform

2013-12-11 Thread Jenny Molloy
Hi Serge The open science list at the Open Knowledge Foundation is always happy to host discussions on innovation in scholarly publishing https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-science (600+ members) Post-publication peer review and open peer review are well within our interests. The

[GOAL] Interview with Dr. Alejandro Ceccatto (MINCyT)

2013-12-11 Thread Kathleen Shearer
Members of this list may be interested in reading a new interview published by COAR. The interview is with the Dr. Alejandor Ceccatto, Secretary of Scientific and Technological Articulation from the Argentinian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation. Dr Ceccatto was responsible for

[GOAL] Message from the moderator

2013-12-11 Thread Richard Poynder
I wanted to say publicly that I posted the last message from Jeffrey Beall with regret. Ad hominem remarks are not helpful. Moreover, on mailing lists they often end up alienating not just the person attacked, but other members of the list too. Please Jeffrey, no more such messages. I

[GOAL] The unstoppable growth of high quality open access resources

2013-12-11 Thread Heather Morrison
The December 2013 early year-end edition of The Dramatic Growth of Open Access focuses on a few of the indicators that this dramatic growth features many high quality open access resources. For example, the number of PubMed searches that link to free full-text within 3 years of publication is