[GOAL] SAGE's broad-spectrum HSS OA journal celebrates strong growth on its five-year anniversary

Dear all - Sending this message along in case of interest to the GOAL community. Many thanks, Camille Gamboa SAGE Publishing camille.gam...@sagepub.com SAGE Publishing's premier broad-spectrum HSS OA journal celebrates strong growth on its five-year

[GOAL] Any literature on OA publishing in Developing Regions

Dear ALL, It's great to finally find a platform for OPEN discussion on OA generally. But my interest is in identifying relevant literature on OA journal publishing in the Global South, in order to enrich the few literature on OA which I have been able to identify so far. This will further aid

Re: [GOAL] Ownership and future of "Open access" services

Totally agreed with your conclusion. One way around would be to design, develop and support free software for the whole set of activities, released with something like affero gpl. El 19/5/2016 1:35, "Heather Morrison" escribió: > Who owns and controls the services

Re: [GOAL] Prophylactic Against Elsevier Predation

...so, the main idea is to offer free open access to free open content behind a Paywall build on free open source tools ? Look at the business model of (Eternal) Environnemental Trust Funds for a différente philosophie & praxis. Olivier Le 2016-05-19 à 07:45, "WALK Paul" a

Re: [GOAL] Prophylactic Against Elsevier Predation

My point is that there need to be more potential acquirers than Elsevier, Springer, or Wiley, but it's certainly true that as acquisitions go up, the capital pouring into the space goes up. William Gunn +1 (650) 614-1749 http://synthesis.williamgunn.org/about/ On May 19, 2016 1:47 PM, "WALK Paul"

[GOAL] Call for action! (was Prophylactic Against Elsevier Predation)

Call for action! A new ecology for scholarly communications is emerging which involves openness and sharing of publications, data, research administrative information, and other research outputs. Libraries and universities are already contributing to this ecology by hosting systems and

Re: [GOAL] Prophylactic Against Elsevier Predation

"The best way to keep Elsevier from dominating the space would be for there to be plenty of lean and hungry startups seeing opportunities here." That seems demonstrably untrue, when such lean and hungry startups often have acquisition as their main exit strategy... Paul > On 19 May 2016, at

Re: [GOAL] Prophylactic Against Elsevier Predation

Thanks for your comments, Eric F! If we want to improve scholarly communications, we have to drop the idea that top-down grant funded projects are the ideal. The best way to keep Elsevier from dominating the space would be for there to be plenty of lean and hungry startups seeing opportunities

Re: [GOAL] SSRN Sellout to Elsevier

Ted Bergstrom writes > Hooray for RePEc! Thank you. > Thomas, Is there a short answer to the question: > "How do we know RePEc can't be bought?" I have two answers. For younger people, tell them that RePEc is just data distributed on over 1800 different servers. It belongs to the

[GOAL] The 11th Munin Conference - Call for Presentations and Posters is out!

Please forward in your networks - apologies for cross-posting! This year's Munin Conference will be held in Tromsø on November 21st and 22nd. Follow us on Twitter @MuninConf and/or Facebook https://www.facebook.com/TheMuninConference/ to keep posted as we inform about registration etc. Our CFP

Re: [GOAL] Prophylactic Against Elsevier Predation

Eric Archambault: This is quite impressive and potentially very helpful. Stevan: We started with IRs that would grow organically. When that did not work, we pursued institutional mandates. Now, it is national funder mandates. This attitude of top-down enforced innovation is at odds with today's

[GOAL] Ownership and future of "Open access" services

Who owns and controls the services that Open access depends on, both now and in the future, is an important question for the sustainability of open access. To the best of my knowledge: Figshare is owned by Nature Publishing Group which was recently acquired by Springer. On the surface,

Re: [GOAL] Prophylactic Against Elsevier Predation

And then, if Science-Metrix & 1science succeeds in helping librarians harvest back the output that university researchers have deposited elsewhere in the web than their own university's repository, Elsevier can buy Science-Metrix & 1science as it bought Mendeley, SSRN and PURE and tighten yet

Re: [GOAL] Prophylactic Against Elsevier Predation

Forgot to specify – we are approaching 60% of WoS contents that can be found in gratis OA – that’s for the last few years (about 5 years – except the latest year which is still plagued by embargoes and the lack of reflex by researchers to self-archive immediately the pre-prints and