Re: [GOAL] Call for applications - International Open Access Advisory Group

On 11 September 2019 at 20:23 Chris Zielinski wrote: Comment to Peter Murray-Rust: The point of an Advisory Board is surely to advise, not to rubber-stamp, and the wider the perspective of its members, the better. It remains to be seen who is appointed. For some reason, Open Access discourse

Re: [GOAL] Call for applications - International Open Access Advisory Group

Dear all, Thanks to Peter and Heather for taking the time to comment on this initiative by CCC. I am of course conflicted myself, as we've been contracted by them to help form this advisory group, so members of the list will need to make their own judgement on whether it's an activity they wish

Re: [GOAL] Call for applications - International Open Access Advisory Group

Good point, thanks Peter. The Copyright Clearance Center is only one of many such organizations around the world. They have their own international organization, the International Federation of Reproductive Rights Organizations - website here: https://www.ifrro.org/ These organizations are a

Re: [GOAL] Call for applications - International Open Access Advisory Group

I would direct readers to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Clearance_Center to get an overview if CCC, which is a for-profit company and has sued universities (and lost). I would think that this new venture is a case of Openwashing of a business model that is directly opposed to GOAL and

Re: [GOAL] How to manage APC waivers and discounts

Thank you for your comments, Dirk, but I disagree with your main point and implicit valuation of journal venues. Our ability to choose which venues to publish in is dependent on both the market and our means, whether we are discussing cars, houses, or academic publishing. When funding

Re: [GOAL] How to manage APC waivers and discounts

Dear all, thank you for bringing this up again. I´m not sure if you could compare the market behaviour of demanders and suppliers on the market for houses or cars with the market for academic publications. There are some similarities, but there are some differences in the market structures as

Re: [GOAL] Call for applications - International Open Access Advisory Group

Peter Murray-Rust raises the important point that the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC)'s basic model fits with perpetual copyright, the antithesis of open access. However, I argue that the open access movement needs to engage with the issues that will or might be raised by this group.

[GOAL] Boston program confirmed for researcher event (Explore Open Access Books)

** apologies for cross posting ** Dear GOAL members, We are happy to be able to give you more information about the program for Explore Open Access Books, a free event for researchers and academic book authors in Boston next week, co-hosted by Digital Science and Springer Nature. I'd be

Re: [GOAL] Call for applications - International Open Access Advisory Group

What is the relation of this group to the actual activities of CCC? Does it have the power to advise that it extends copyright and licensing to areas what those practices do great harm, and that the prices for re-use are often extortionate (one article in NEJM apparently generated over 1 million

[GOAL] Call for applications - International Open Access Advisory Group

Dear all (with apologies for cross-posting), Copyright Clearance Centre (CCC) is seeking research professionals, including researchers, librarians and research funders, with experience in defining, using or implementing OA publication and science policy to