[GOAL] {Disarmed} Open Access at Cambridge - Thursday

Hello all, Today's missive from the Open Access Week celebrations at Cambridge. *Unlocking Theses project* The Office of Scholarly Communications is making a concerted effort to build on the 860+ open access theses we already hold in the Apollo repository. The Library holds over 1200 scanned

[GOAL] Changes in top ten DOAJ publishers 2014 to 2015

The Sustaining the Knowledge Commons team would like to share just a little preliminary information from our 2015 survey of DOAJ journals using OA APCs. In brief, there have been some interesting changes in the mix of publishers listed in DOAJ. For example, traditional publisher De Gruyter has

[GOAL] Re: ?spam? Re: BLOG: Unlocking Research 'Half-life is half the story'

One might even wonder if permitting researchers to make a copy of their work available in a repository could entail an uplift of downloads at the publisher’s web site, thus leading librarians to subscribe: http://www.peerproject.eu/fileadmin/media/reports/20120618_D5_3_PEER_Usage_Study_RCT.pdf

[GOAL] Re: ?spam? Re: BLOG: Unlocking Research 'Half-life is half the story'

If the question is ‘Is there any evidence showing a correlation between embargo length and subscription cancellations?’ then the answer is clearly ‘no’. If the question is ‘Is there a disconnect between library behaviour and survey results?’ then the answer is clearly ‘yes’. Yes different

[GOAL] Re: BLOG: Unlocking Research 'Half-life is half the story'

Because the journals in the PEER study used publisher-set embargo periods... - Alicia From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of David Prosser Sent: 22 October 2015 14:42 To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Subject: [GOAL] Re: BLOG:

[GOAL] Re: GOAL Digest, Vol 47, Issue 34

Alicia, Repeatedly saying something does not make it true. Davis's half life study is interesting but it does not tell us anything about cancellation behaviours. There is no causal arrow between half lives of articles and journal cancellation. The evidence we are asking for is not conjecture

[GOAL] Re: BLOG: Unlocking Research 'Half-life is half the story'

Indeed. And if you look at the randomized usage report: http://www.peerproject.eu/fileadmin/media/reports/20120618_D5_3_PEER_Usage_Study_RCT.pdf you can read an interesting conclusion: The key finding of

[GOAL] Re: BLOG: Unlocking Research 'Half-life is half the story'

This does not explain why, when the papers where freely available online, we observed an increase in usage for Publishers’ web sites… Laurent > Le 22 oct. 2015 à 15:57, Wise, Alicia (ELS-OXF) a écrit > : > > Because the journals in the PEER study used publisher-set

[GOAL] Re: Open Access Week at Cambridge - Wednesday

Good point Serge, I should have put these links in yesterday (I am blaming a headcold for fuzzy thinking). You might find the information on the Office of Scholarly Communication webpages useful. * Modern Monographs overview - http://osc.cam.ac.uk/modern-monographs * Open access and

[GOAL] Re: BLOG: Unlocking Research 'Half-life is half the story'

Hi all, What we would like to see here as evidence is something like what is being done about open access to scholarly monographs: rigorous studies, involving control groups and close monitoring, testing the effect of making a toll-free copy available. I'm aware of two such studies, both made

[GOAL] Re: BLOG: Unlocking Research 'Half-life is half the story'

Marc’s post reminds me that there was the EC-funded, STM-run PEER project that attempted to do exactly this comparison: http://www.stm-assoc.org/public-affairs/resources/peer/ One of the aims of PEER was to discover the effect of Green OA on journal viability - for the journals that took part

[GOAL] Re: BLOG: Unlocking Research 'Half-life is half the story'

Sorry, Laurent – my message wasn’t a reply to your post, but rather to David’s concluding that there were no negative impacts on journals participating in PEER. That is correct, and my point is that publisher-set embargo periods (based on all the information and evidence we bring to bear in