[GOAL] The dramatic growth of BioMedCentral's open access article processing charges

2014-02-28 Thread Heather Morrison
without increasing their OA article processing charges at all. best, -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies University of Ottawa Desmarais 111-02 613-562-5800 ext. 7634 http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/faculty/hmorrison.html

[GOAL] Re: The dramatic growth of BioMedCentral's open access article processing charges

2014-02-28 Thread Heather Morrison
, and a more than healthy surplus. Best, Heather Morrison On Feb 28, 2014, at 7:08 AM, Frantsvåg Jan Erik jan.e.frants...@uit.nomailto:jan.e.frants...@uit.no wrote: Interesting numbers! Have you investigated if some of this increase could be explained by an increased rejection rate? – this would

[GOAL] Re: Charles Oppenheim on who owns the rights to scholarly articles

2014-02-05 Thread Heather Morrison
not restrict discussion on this important topic to technical interpretations of copyright law today. best, Heather Morrison On 2014-02-05, at 11:28 AM, Michael Carroll wrote: Hi all, This is an old issue. Kevin Smith is correct. Here's my version of why from 2006. http

[GOAL] December 2013 Dramatic Growth of Open Access

2014-01-02 Thread Heather Morrison
a discussion about how to make this happen. Happy 2014!! -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies University of Ottawa http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/faculty/hmorrison.html heather.morri...@uottawa.ca

[GOAL] Re: Hybrid Open Access

2013-12-18 Thread Heather Morrison
if Elsevier would post the license on their website. best, -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies University of Ottawa 613-562-5800 ext. 7634 http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/faculty/hmorrison.html heather.morri

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

2013-12-11 Thread Heather Morrison
for this issue of Dramatic Growth. Blogpost: http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/2013/12/the-unstoppable-growth-of-high-quality.html best, -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies University of Ottawa 613-562-5800 ext. 7634

[GOAL] Re: [sparc-oaforum] Jeffrey Beall Needlessly Compromises Credibility of Beall's List

2013-12-09 Thread Heather Morrison
journals. Reference U.K. Office of Fair Trading. (2002). The market for scientific, medical and technical journals No. OFT 396 U.K. Office of Fair Trade. Retrieved September 13, 2011 from http://www.oft.gov.uk/advice_and_resources/publications/reports/media/ best, -- Dr. Heather Morrison

[GOAL] OA journal publishing by APC: dominated by the commercial sector

2013-12-09 Thread Heather Morrison
on which I would like to agree. best, -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies University of Ottawa 613-562-5800 ext. 7634 http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/faculty/hmorrison.html heather.morri...@uottawa.camailto:heather.morri

[GOAL] Re: Elsevier is taking down papers from Academia.edu

2013-12-08 Thread Heather Morrison
publishers. best, Heather Morrison On Dec 8, 2013, at 7:47 AM, Bosman, J.M. j.bos...@uu.nlmailto:j.bos...@uu.nl wrote: Heather, That would be new for me. Do you mean to say that Gold OA articles from Elsevier with a CC-BY license can not be shared without restriction? The exclusive license

[GOAL] Re: Elsevier is taking down papers from Academia.edu

2013-12-08 Thread Heather Morrison
with subscription journals. The terms of a license to publish can be every bit as restrictive as full copyright transfer. best, Heather Morrison On 2013-12-08, at 10:52 AM, Wise, Alicia (ELS-OXF) wrote: Hi Jeroen, These articles can of course be used without any restriction other than

[GOAL] Re: [Open-access] Fight Publishing Lobby's Latest FIRST Act to Delay OA - Nth Successor to PRISM, RWA etc.

2013-11-18 Thread Heather Morrison
]. Best, Heather Morrison On Nov 18, 2013, at 1:59 AM, brent...@ulg.ac.be brent...@ulg.ac.be wrote: Libraries are definitely places where awareness occurs. They are the sentinels. However, they don't have enough power (generally) to impose Open Access as a permanent reflex with researchers

[GOAL] Sequestration plus austerity: will less research mean less publishing?

2013-11-16 Thread Heather Morrison
from prepayment (typical with licensing) to post-payment (payment on delivery, the norm with most purchasing). best, -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies University of Ottawa http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/faculty

[GOAL] Re: The Journal Publisher Lobby in the UK Netherlands: Part I

2013-11-16 Thread Heather Morrison
margin. If we're cutting faculty positions while paying these kinds of increases, in effect we're cutting researcher jobs to fuel tiny percentage increases in already large profit margins for scholarly publishers. best, Heather Morrison On 2013-11-16, at 5:48 PM, Gerritsma, Wouter wrote

[GOAL] Re: [SIGMETRICS] OA

2013-10-30 Thread Heather Morrison
/the-canadian-war-on-science-a-long-unexaggerated-devastating-chronological-indictment/ Hitchcock: http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html my two bits, Dr. Heather Morrison p.s. - THANKS!! to everyone like Dupuis and Hitchcock and many others who are putting advancing knowledge first. On 2013-10

[GOAL] Heather Morrison response to Canadian tricouncil open access policy

2013-10-16 Thread Heather Morrison
access may in some situations be based on factors beyond the control of the country as a whole. best, -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies University of Ottawa http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/faculty/hmorrison.html heather.morri

[GOAL] Re: Your thoughts about Hindawi Journals

2013-10-13 Thread Heather Morrison
their work with a publisher such as Hindawi. If all scholars take such simple measures, more revenue can remain in the universities to fund things I suspect most scholars would agree are priorities, such as salaries for academics. best, -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor École des sciences de

[GOAL] Bohannon study potential damage to scholarship as a whole

2013-10-12 Thread Heather Morrison
and scholarship than all of the predatory journals exposed by the Bohannon sting. best, -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies University of Ottawa http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/faculty/hmorrison.html heather.morri...@uottawa.ca

[GOAL] September 30, 2013 Dramatic Growth of Open Access

2013-10-12 Thread Heather Morrison
-of.html best, -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies University of Ottawa http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/faculty/hmorrison.html heather.morri...@uottawa.ca ___ GOAL mailing list

[GOAL] Re: Media research analyst at Exane BNP Paribas Sami Kassab on the state of Open Access: Where are we, what still needs to be done?

2013-10-07 Thread Heather Morrison
of predatory journals, there is no reason to think that this data is generalizable. best, Heather Morrison On 2013-10-07, at 8:00 AM, Andrew A. Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp wrote: RIchard Poynder quotes Sami Kassab from an interview: The same goes for institutions. Elsevier has over 4,000 institutional

[GOAL] Re: Scholars jobs not publisher profits

2013-10-05 Thread Heather Morrison
, and represented the interests of this group. best, Heather Morrison On 2013-10-05, at 11:25 AM, Sally Morris sa...@morris-assocs.demon.co.ukmailto:sa...@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk wrote: Many of you have argued that Gold OA - at last - creates a genuine marketplace between publishers and authors. In any

[GOAL] Re: Scholars jobs not publisher profits

2013-10-05 Thread Heather Morrison
...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Heather Morrison Sent: 05 October 2013 17:48 To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Cc: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Subject: [GOAL] Re: Scholars jobs not publisher profits There's nothing odd about companies

[GOAL] Re: Scholars jobs not publisher profits

2013-10-04 Thread Heather Morrison
after year, I don't think we should make any assumptions. I argue that we can have both OA and a much more cost-effective system, but this will not simply happen on its own. Wise policy and prudent spending decisions are essential. best, Heather Morrison On 2013-10-04, at 8:09 AM, Frantsvåg

[GOAL] Scholars jobs not publisher profits

2013-10-03 Thread Heather Morrison
that the large commercial scholarly publishers give up their 30-40% profit margins. best, -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies University of Ottawa http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/faculty/hmorrison.html heather.morri

[GOAL] Forthcoming research: open access article processing fees

2013-10-02 Thread Heather Morrison
/2013/10/forthcoming-research-tracking-open.html best, -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies University of Ottawa http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/faculty/hmorrison.html heather.morri...@uottawa.camailto:heather.morri...@uottawa.ca

[GOAL] Re: Elsevier Keeps Revising Its Double-Talk (But Remains Fully Green)

2013-09-25 Thread Heather Morrison
which makes it difficult for so many academics to say no even knowing we should: http://am.ascb.org/dora/ best, Heather Morrison On 2013-09-25, at 5:42 AM, Thomas Krichel kric...@openlib.org wrote: Friend, Fred writes I am sorry to be cynical, but the academic community gets the contracts

[GOAL] Re: Open access research: some basics for scientists

2013-09-17 Thread Heather Morrison
of the surveys. best, Heather Morrison On 2013-09-17, at 4:49 AM, BAUIN Serge wrote: Arthur, I am amazed... Do you mean that social scientists are not scientists? You might recall the etymology of the word statistics (e.g. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=statistics ). A (regrettably

[GOAL] Re: [sparc-oaforum] Re: Cancelling because contents are Green OA vs. because publisher allows Green OA -- A practical evaluation of library workflow

2013-09-17 Thread Heather Morrison
shows that publishers simply charge more for other journals that cannot be cancelled. In other words, there are solid reasons why green OA does not result in library cancellations. best, Heather Morrison On 2013-09-17, at 10:43 AM, Ellen Finnie Duranceau efin...@mit.edumailto:efin...@mit.edu

[GOAL] Open access research: some basics for scientists

2013-09-16 Thread Heather Morrison
that there are least two basic approaches (green and gold), and if asking questions about gold, you should be aware that this is not equivalent to the article processing fee business model best, -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies

[GOAL] Journal cancellations are primarily about journal costs

2013-09-16 Thread Heather Morrison
of available economy airfares? best, -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies University of Ottawa http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/faculty/hmorrison.html heather.morri...@uottawa.camailto:heather.morri...@uottawa.ca ALA

[GOAL] Re: [sparc-oaforum] Re: Cancelling because contents are Green OA vs. because publisher allows Green OA

2013-09-16 Thread Heather Morrison
. It would be interesting to see how much money Rick's library would save, and compare this with how much they could save by cancelling a single big deal with a high-cost publisher. best, Heather Morrison On 2013-09-16, at 5:06 PM, Stevan Harnad amscifo...@gmail.commailto:amscifo...@gmail.com

[GOAL] Re: Disruption vs. Protection

2013-09-14 Thread Heather Morrison
scholarship instead. best, -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies University of Ottawa http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/faculty/hmorrison.html heather.morri...@uottawa.camailto:heather.morri...@uottawa.ca ALA Accreditation site

[GOAL] Kudos to the UK BIS Committee: important steps in the right direction

2013-09-12 Thread Heather Morrison
, while the BIS committee notes the absence of voices of SMEs, no doubt appropriate for their mandate, I would like to add that the major group whose voices are not heard in open access policy discussions is academics. It is our work, after all. best. -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor

[GOAL] Re: OA Chromophilia

2013-08-27 Thread Heather Morrison
thumbs down for black. Just my two bits ~ Heather Morrison On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Beall, Jeffrey jeffrey.be...@ucdenver.edu wrote: Dear Prof. Harnad: Earlier when I highlighted the distinction between gold and platinum open-access, you indicated (and your followers confirmed

[GOAL] Re: Submission to ICAR on its Open Access Policy 2013 Draft

2013-05-19 Thread Heather Morrison
/10/critique-of-cc-by-series.html best, Dr. Heather Morrison Freedom for scholarship in the internet age http://summit.sfu.ca/item/12537 On 19-May-13, at 1:14 AM, Sridhar Gutam wrote: Dear Colleagues and Friends, Please see the attachment for the document made modifying the ICAR Open Access

[GOAL] Dramatic Growth of Open Access March 31, 2013

2013-04-04 Thread Heather Morrison
. New this issue is the amazing 281 billion web pages of the Internet Archive. Full data, a word version of this commentary and jpg of the chart above are available in SFU SUMMIT. Details: http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/2013/04/dramatic-growth-of-open-access-3013.html Dr. Heather Morrison

[GOAL] Correction and clarification: Dramatic Growth of Open Access March 31, 2013

2013-04-04 Thread Heather Morrison
are available in SFU SUMMIT. Details: http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/2013/04/dramatic-growth-of-open-access-3013.html Dr. Heather Morrison Freedom for scholarship in the internet age http://summit.sfu.ca/item/12537 ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org

[GOAL] Taylor Francis OA survey and author license / dissemination preferences: comments

2013-04-03 Thread Heather Morrison
My post critiquing this portion of the survey is now complete. Summary This portion of the TF OA survey supports arguments that scholars as a group do not support the Creative Commons - Attribution Only license (CC-BY), but rather when using CC licenses tend to prefer more restrictive

[GOAL] Re: Japan's National OA Mandate for ETDs.

2013-04-02 Thread Heather Morrison
-by-series.html In brief, my recommendation is against any default, but rather recognizes that we are in a period of experimentation and encouraging a variety of approaches. best, Dr. Heather Morrison Freedom for scholarship in the internet age http://summit.sfu.ca/item/12537 On 1-Apr-13, at 10:40

[GOAL] Re: Japan's National OA Mandate for ETDs.

2013-04-02 Thread Heather Morrison
the scholar to enter into a suitable contract. best, Dr. Heather Morrison Freedom for scholarship in the internet age http://summit.sfu.ca/item/12537 On 2013-04-02, at 11:34 AM, Hans Pfeiffenberger wrote: Am 02.04.13 16:15, schrieb Heather Morrison: One reason is that it is common

[GOAL] Informa.plc - Taylor and Francis no-embargo for LIS journals

2013-03-28 Thread Heather Morrison
In response to a post on the mass resignation of the Journal of Library Administration, Informa.plc, the multinational conglomerate working under its scholar-friendly-sounding brand Taylor Francis, posted this note about self-archiving: Under our LIS pilot program, authors can freely post

[GOAL] Re: Informa.plc - Taylor and Francis no-embargo for LIS journals

2013-03-28 Thread Heather Morrison
, that the pilot program removing embargoes is a response to this mass resignation. best, Heather Morrison The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com On 2013-03-28, at 2:41 AM, Hamaker, Charles wrote: My mistake, Informa appears to be the umbrella organization

[GOAL] Attitudes and values regarding research communication: second post in Taylor and Francis Open Access Critique Series

2013-03-20 Thread Heather Morrison
preliminary overall comments. http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/2013/03/taylor-francis-open-access-survey.html best, Dr. Heather Morrison The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org

[GOAL] CC-BY discussion

2013-03-15 Thread Heather Morrison
similar motives but should also acknowledge that they are advocating for their own business interests, too, whether they are for profit or not. best, Heather Morrison The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com ___ GOAL

[GOAL] Wikipedia, open access and CC-BY

2013-03-14 Thread Heather Morrison
-and-cc-by.html best, Heather Morrison, PhD The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal

[GOAL] Is CC-BY analogous to toll access?

2013-03-14 Thread Heather Morrison
/03/a-problem-with-cc-by-permitting.html best, Heather Morrison, PhD The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal

[GOAL] Re: The ambiguity of CC-BY, data and attribtution

2013-03-14 Thread Heather Morrison
On 2013-03-13, at 12:08 PM, Hans Pfeiffenberger wrote: Am 13.03.13 18:00, schrieb Heather Morrison: Here we see two interpretations: a CC-BY license places an obligation for full and proper attribution versus a CC-License for data and text mining results would be mostly pointless. You

[GOAL] The ambiguity of CC-BY, data and attribtution

2013-03-13 Thread Heather Morrison
with CC-BY (which likely go beyond the moral rights of automatic copyright or all rights reserved in many jurisdictions) can insert barriers to re-use of works, before considering a recommendation of any particular CC license as a default for OA. best, Heather Morrison, PhD The Imaginary Journal

[GOAL] Re: Rockefeller University Press: CC-BY is not essential for Open Access

2013-03-13 Thread Heather Morrison
on my blog, but this is because Google offers me the option of turning on or leaving off Adsense. best, Heather Morrison, PhD The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http

[GOAL] Re: OASPA CC-BY chart: where's the data?

2013-03-12 Thread Heather Morrison
traditional or open access, need to have someone point out to them that if they wish to present data / chart to make a case, they should present their research method and be prepared to accepted scholarly critique. best, Heather Morrison, PhD The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics http

[GOAL] OASPA's ironic demonstration of the inadequacy of CC-BY for data mining

2013-03-12 Thread Heather Morrison
The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA)'s chart illustrating the growth of the CC-BY license ironically demonstrates the inadequacy of the license for data mining. This chart is posted in image format on a CC-BY licensed blog. The data per se has not been posted for download,

[GOAL] Re: OASPA CC-BY chart: where's the data?

2013-03-12 Thread Heather Morrison
'scholarly critiques' so I'm not sure why Heather has put that into the mix. David On 12 Mar 2013, at 16:24, Heather Morrison wrote: To illustrate how growth in the use of this one license is likely conflated with overall growth of open access and other factors such as an increas

[GOAL] Rockefeller University Press editorial on a practical way to meet OA mandates

2013-03-11 Thread Heather Morrison
.201303016.full best, Heather Morrison, PhD Freedom for scholarship in the internet age https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/thesis/etd7530 The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http

[GOAL] OASPA CC-BY chart: where's the data?

2013-03-11 Thread Heather Morrison
OASPA has posted a picture of a chart of CC-BY growth on their blog: http://oaspa.org/growth-in-use-of-the-cc-by-license-2/ The chart by itself is difficult to interpret. For example, to what extent is CC-BY growth conflated with OASPA membership growth or overall open access growth? Will

[GOAL] Re: RCUK publishes revised guidance on Open Access

2013-03-07 Thread Heather Morrison
://theses.lib.sfu.ca/thesis/etd7530 Government need not, and should not, mandate the means to transition to an open access scholarly publishing system. This is best left to the market. best, Heather Morrison On 2013-03-07, at 1:36 AM, Ross Mounce wrote: Hi Heather, I'd like to expand

[GOAL] Re: RCUK publishes revised guidance on Open Access

2013-03-07 Thread Heather Morrison
% of researchers outside of the UK. best, Heather Morrison ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal

[GOAL] RCUK publishes revised guidance on Open Access

2013-03-06 Thread Heather Morrison
-by-series.html, this just won't work. The result will be a corpus of CC-BY licensed locked-down PDFs or even more open documents with locked-down image-based charts and graphs that are useless for text and data-mining and re-use. best, Dr. Heather Morrison The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics

[GOAL] Re: Responses to Martin Hall on Finch on Neither Green Nor Gold

2013-02-14 Thread Heather Morrison
. Heather Morrison pages.cmns.sfu.ca/heather-morrison/ On 2013-02-14, at 8:54 AM, Marcin Wojnarski wrote: On 02/14/2013 11:24 AM, Peter Murray-Rust wrote: MU indicates that he would like modified CC-* licences for humanities, etc. What's the reasoning behind this? Why do humanities need special

[GOAL] The Writing's on the firewall : assessing the promise of open access journal publishing for a public sociology of sport

2013-02-09 Thread Heather Morrison
://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/43889 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

2013-02-05 Thread Heather Morrison
. For further details and explanation of why I consider author choice to be optimal, see the blogpost. best, Heather Morrison, PhD The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com On 5-Feb-13, at 12:37 PM, Peter Murray-Rust wrote: I would be interested in who took

[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

[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?

2013-01-26 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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: [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

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