Interview with The Wellcome Trust's Robert Kiley

How much will Gold OA eventually cost? And how will the research community pay for it?   http://bit.ly/nJOxNL  

Re: Fool's Gold Journal Spam

This is a nettle that OA organisations like SPARC, OASPA and COPE should be grasping. There are things they could be doing, and things they could be saying. And for so long as the OA movement continues to ignore the problem, Open Access is in danger of being discredited. People are beginning to con

AmSci Update

AmSci subscribers over to the new list. Stevan has kindly agreed to oversee the migration before handing the list over.   Please bear with us while this work is undertaken.   Richard Poynder www.richardpoynder.co.uk  

[GOAL] Interview with OMICS Publishing Group's Srinu Babu Gedela

In an article published in The Charleston Review in July 2010, Jeffrey Beall, a librarian at the University of Colorado, Denver, described OMICS Publishing Group as a predatory Open Access publisher. “Having a large number of titles, as does the OMICS Publishing Group, is typical of predatory O

[GOAL] Looking to the past, looking to the future

OA. I wonder, therefore, if anyone would like to share their thoughts on what policies and strategies they feel have been effective or promising in 2011, and how; and what they propose or foresee for2012 and why. Richard Poynder GOAL Moderator www.richardpoynder.

[GOAL] Message from the moderator

would much prefer it if those posting could keep in mind that we all live very busy lives and so are more responsive to short messages that get to the point quickly.   I wish members of the list the very best holiday and New Year wishes.   Richard Poynder GOAL Moderator www.richardpoynder.co.uk

[GOAL] Harvard's response to the White House RFI on Open Access

were absent, which was clearly confusing to readers.   The good news is that a properly formatted version of the response is now available on the Harvard web site here:   http://osc.hul.harvard.edu/2012/01/harvard-responds-white-house-rfi-open-access   Richard Poynder GOAL Moderator   Â

[GOAL] Fwd: Press Information: De Gruyter acquires Versita and becomes third-biggest international Open Access publisher

Of possible interest to list members.  >> For immediate release. De Gruyter acquires Versita and becomes third-biggest international Open Access publisher Berlin, January 9, 2012 De Gruyter, the Berlin-based academic publishing company, is acquiring the publisher Versita. As a service

[GOAL] ITHAKA becomes the second AAP member to disavow the Research Works Act

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[GOAL] Pennsylvania State University Press says No to Research Works Act

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[GOAL] Can AAP Members stay neutral in the row over the Research Works Act?

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[GOAL] {Disarmed} The University of California Press differs from AAP on Research Works Act

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[GOAL] Update on the Research Works Act

A number of organisations and publishers have released statements about the Research Works Act in the past few days: The University of California Press differs from AAP on the Research Works Act: http://bit.ly/yM5w13 Nature Publishing Group, Digital Science and the do not support the Res

[GOAL] Interview with Francis Jayakanth of India’s National Centre for Science Information

Like members of all movements, OA advocates come in all shapes and sizes, and they are driven by a variety of different motives. Some have embraced OA, for instance, because they see it as a good business opportunity, some because they want their research to be more accessible, and so have grea

[GOAL] Interview with Jan Velterop

Currently CEO of Academic Concept Knowledge Limited (AQnowledge), Jan Velterop has in his time worked for Elsevier, Academic Press, Springer, Nature and BioMed Central. He was one of the architects of the controversial Big Deal, and one of the small group of people who attended the 2001 meeting in

[GOAL] Interview with Elsevier

Elsevier’s Alicia Wise on the RWA, the West Wing, and Universal Access   http://bit.ly/y7Yi92         [ Part 2: "Attached Text" ] ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal

[GOAL] Interview with Michael Eisen, co-founder of the Public Library of Science

Michael Eisen is an evolutionary biologist at University of California Berkeley and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He is also co-founder of the Open Access (OA) publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS).   Founded in 2000, PLoS was conceived as an advocacy group for wh

[GOAL] Elsevier steps away from the Research Works Act

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[GOAL] Scholarly Publishing: Where is Plan B?

To the intense joy of OA advocates, Elsevier announced Monday that it has withdrawn its support for the controversial US Research Works Act.   One person who took particular note of the news was Claudio Aspesi, a senior research analyst at the sell-side research firm Sanford Bernstein. Aspesi t

[GOAL] UK Research Councils plan to strengthen OA policy

Yesterday details of a proposed new RCUK OA policy were posted on the Enabling Open Scholarship (EOS) web site. The EOS post reads:   The UK's Research Councils have proposed a revised policy on Open Access which further clarifies RCUK's definition of OA and strengthens some of the criteria tha

[GOAL] Recent OA developments in Australia

Last month Elsevier withdrew its support for the controversial Research Works Act. Had it become law, the RWA would have rolled back the NIH Public Access Policy requiring that funded researchers make their papers freely available on the Web within 12 months of publication. It would also have outl

[GOAL] Fwd: Open access to Dutch research stagnating

Original Message Subject: Open access to Dutch research stagnating List-Post: goal@eprints.org List-Post: goal@eprints.org Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 11:42:31 +0200 From: Kuil, van der Annemiek Reply-To: Kuil, van der Annemiek To: jisc-repositor...@jiscmail.ac.uk The message below h

[GOAL] Interview with Carlos Rossel, Publisher at the World Bank

When Jim Yong Kim takes office as the new president of the World Bank on 1st July, he will be the first development professional to head the Bank. That is new. But it is not all that is new at the World Bank. The new president will inherit an organisation that has undergone a lot of navel gazing ov

[GOAL] Wikipedia founder to help in [UK] government's research scheme

"The [UK] government has drafted in the Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales to help make all taxpayer-funded academic research in Britain available online to anyone who wants to read or use it." http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/may/01/wikipedia-research-jimmy-wales -online [ Part 2: "Att

[GOAL] Open data

governments provide will prove fit for purpose. Richard Poynder On 08/05/2012 11:50, Stevan Harnad wrote: For the perplexed reader: 1. Peter Murray-Rust is a dedicated advocate for certain text-mining and re-use rights that are very important and very fruitful in certain fields of research (

[GOAL] Text mining

Members of the list might be interested in this article on text mining in The Chronicle of Higher Education:   http://chronicle.com/article/Hot-Type-Elsevier-Experiments/131789/?key=TDl1JFRh MyxLNHk3NmsQZG1danFtNxgmZHEQPi0pblFRFQ%3D%3D   They might also be interested in some comments on the

[GOAL] Message from moderator

Just a quick reminder to the list that the best way of having a productive discussion is for those taking part to bear in mind the phrase: “Play the ball, not the man”.   Richard Poynder GOAL Moderator       [ Part 2: "Attached

[GOAL] Re: Meaning of Open Access

OA at all. What do other GOAL and JISC readers think? >> There are times when the best that can be achieved is that people agree to disagree. I think this is one of those times. Richard Poynder ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailm

[GOAL] OA and scholarly publishers

share their thoughts with us too? Surely it is time for the research community to enter into a public dialogue with publishers? Who knows what benefits might follow?   Richard Poynder GOAL Moderator [ Part 2: "Attached Text" ] ___ GO

[GOAL] Re: OA and scholarly publishers

nd up with discussion of gratis vs. libre OA, I think it is relevant and appropriate to be discussed on GOAL. If others disagrees, please say so. Richard Poynder GOAL Moderator On 12/05/2012 09:23, Peter Murray-Rust wrote: [Note that as this is a moderated list my replies may not a

[GOAL] Re: Hotel in Philadelphia

Dear All, I fear a personal message may have been mistakenly posted to the mailing list. Apologies to all concerned. Richard Poynder GOAL Moderator On 12/05/2012 13:22, Rzepa Henry wrote: > Peter, > > As a seasoned traveller, you probably have your favourite guest house in >

[GOAL] The OA Interviews: Audrey McCulloch, ALPSP Chief Executive

On 1st June, the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP), along with the Publishers Association (PA), distributed a press release advertising the results of a survey that had recently been commissioned. The objective of the survey had been to estimate the likely impa

[GOAL] The OA Interviews: Jeffrey Beall, University of Colorado Denver

Jeffrey Beall, a metadata librarian at the University of Colorado Denver, maintains a list of what he calls "predatory publishers". That is, publishers who, as Beall puts it, "unprofessionally exploit the gold open-access model for their own profit." Amongst other things, this can mean that papers

[GOAL] The Finch Report and its implications for the developing world

The Electronic Publishing Trust for Development responds to the Finch Report. Extract: "It is difficult not to sound unprofessional and populist when describing the huge imbalance between the importance of sharing essential research and that of retaining the profits of the publishing servic

[GOAL] Interview with Professor Martin Hall, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Salford, Manchester

Martin Hall was a member of the committee that published the controversial Finch Report on OA in the UK. Some excerpts: *** On green OA: "[I]t's important to recognize that there are a number of varieties of green OA . green means different things to different people; for some, it's an

[GOAL] Many apologies

Dear All, I fear I let through a spam message by mistake. Many apologies, I have been on the move today and was trying to keep the flow going using, variously, an iPad and my cell phone. I will do my best not to let it happen again. Richard Poynder GOAL Moderator

[GOAL] Re: Publications managed by scholarly communities/institutions

Is there an umbrella organisation that represents independent community-based journals like these? If not, should there be such an organisation? From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Laurent Romary Sent: 09 August 2012 10:44 To: Bo-Christer Björk Cc: Glob

[GOAL] Re: Publications managed by scholarly communities/institutions

I was thinking that some people may feel the needs and aspirations of small community-based journals would be somewhat different to the needs and aspirations of those large commercial publishers that have joined OASPA. -Original Message- From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...

[GOAL] Fwd: Fee-free scholarly publishing

s it is all the more important to document and support fee-free journals. Best wishes, Richard Poynder -Original Message- From: open-access-boun...@lists.okfn.org [mailto:open-access-boun...@lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan Gray Sent: 15 August 2012 15:37 To: open-acc...@lists.okf

[GOAL] Re: Springer now publishing Open Access books

book." Perhaps someone from Springer could provide further pricing information for members of the GOAL mailing list? If there is no published price list, perhaps a few examples could be given, or a pricing formula? Richard Poynder PRESS RELEASE Springer now publishing Open Ac

[GOAL] BOAI-10: Interview with SPARC's Alma Swan

Although the history of the Open Access movement can be traced back to at least 1994 (or even earlier), its birth is widely held to have taken place at the 2001 Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI). Certainly, it was at this point that the term "open access" was first used. The BOAI emerged fro

[GOAL] Interview with Ahmed Hindawi, founder of Hindawi Publishing Corporation

Founded in 1997, Hindawi Publishing Corporation was the first subscription publisher to convert its entire portfolio of journals to Open Access (OA). This has enabled the company to grow very rapidly and today it publishes over 400 OA journals. The speed of Hindawi's growth, which included cre

[GOAL] Open Access in the UK: Reinventing the Big Deal

Love it or loathe it, the recently announced Open Access policy from Research Councils UK has certainly divided the OA movement. Despite considerable criticism, however, RCUK has refused to amend its policy. So what will be its long-term impact? Critics fear that RCUK has opened the door t

[GOAL] Re: R Poynder Interviews I Gibson About 2004 UK Select Committee Green OA Mandate Recommendation

On 28 Oct 2012, at 23:07, Stevan Harnad wrote: Giving up authors' preferred journals in favour of pure Gold OA journals was what (I think) BMC's Vitek Tracz and Jan Velterop had been lobbying for at the time Stevan may think so, but that doesn't make it correct or accurate. What we adv

[GOAL] Re: R Poynder Interviews I Gibson About 2004 UK Select Committee Green OA Mandate Recommendation

#x27;t it happening? Because in practice self-archiving is impractical. That said, for those who want it BioMed Central supports self-archiving by offering to help institutions create repositories for their researchers' papers. Richard Poynder From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mail

[GOAL] Repository numbers

ts 20 repositories that use the service (0.9% of the market), whereas ROAR lists 18 (0.6%). BMC itself lists 22 organisations that use its Open Repository services (http://www.openrepository.com/customers). Richard Poynder -Original Message- From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal

[GOAL] Interview with the Scholarly Kitchen's Kent Anderson

An interview with Kent Anderson, Editor-in Chief of the Scholarly Kitchen, CEO/Publisher of The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery, President-Elect of the Society for Scholarly Publishing, and "one of the more vocal sceptics of open access". Amongst other things, Anderson explains why he believes

[GOAL] Interview with Harvard's Stuart Shieber

Stuart Shieber is the Welch Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University, Faculty Co-Director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Director of Harvard's Office for Scholarly Communicati

[GOAL] Re: Interview with Harvard's Stuart Shieber

re paid for. I think it is helpful to ensure that we do not equate Gold with APCs. David On 3 Dec 2012, at 18:51, Richard Poynder wrote: Stuart Shieber is the Welch Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University, <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/sshieber> Facul

[GOAL] Re: Interview with Harvard's Stuart Shieber

ls are now claimed by the open access community as 'gold oa' titles although I suppose that's much less of a mouthful than 'free-at-the-point-of-use' titles! With kind wishes, Alicia From: goal-boun...@eprints.org <mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org> [mailt

[GOAL] Re: Interview with Harvard's Stuart Shieber

appears to have used for its sample quite a few publishers that are included on Jeffrey Beall’s list of predatory publishers. Richard Poynder From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Hans Pfeiffenberger Sent: 12 December 2012 23:15 To: Global Open Access

[GOAL] Re: Interview with Harvard's Stuart Shieber

lf Of Ross Mounce Sent: 13 December 2012 09:59 To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Subject: [GOAL] Re: Interview with Harvard's Stuart Shieber On 13 December 2012 09:32, Richard Poynder mailto:ri...@richardpoynder.co.uk> > wrote: I believe this latter study included a numbe

[GOAL] Re: Interview with Harvard's Stuart Shieber

Point taken, but was there a particular reason for including the "Beall" journals in your study? What purpose did it serve? The criticism of some of these journals, by the way, goes some way beyond the fact that they are guilty of spamming researchers. Richard Poynder -Origin

[GOAL] Re: Interview with Harvard's Stuart Shieber

ng system is in danger of eroding due to the increasing influence of predatory publishing." (http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pipermail/goal/2012-December/001353.html). Richard Poynder -Original Message- From: Bo-Christer Björk [mailto:bo-christer.bj...@hanken.fi] Sent: 13 December 20

[GOAL] Fwd: [sparc-oaforum] RUSSELL GROUP UNIVERSITY REACHES INSTITUTIONAL MEMBERSHIP AGREEMENT WITH OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHER SOCIAL SCIENCES DIRECTORY

Begin forwarded message: > From: Dan Scott > Date: 11 December 2012 11:45:49 GMT > To: sparc-oafo...@arl.org > Subject: [sparc-oaforum] RUSSELL GROUP UNIVERSITY REACHES INSTITUTIONAL > MEMBERSHIP AGREEMENT WITH OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHER SOCIAL SCIENCES DIRECTORY > > PRESS RELEASE – FOR IMMEDIATE RE

[GOAL] Re: Interview with Harvard's Stuart Shieber

] Re: Interview with Harvard's Stuart Shieber Am 13.12.12 14:09, schrieb Richard Poynder: > "Another way would be for DOAJ to start excluding journals but that > could become very complicated and resource demanding." > > This is no doubt true, but isn't it

[GOAL] Re: Interview with Harvard's Stuart Shieber

From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Richard Poynder Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 2:00 PM To: 'Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)' Subject: [GOAL] Re: Interview with Harvard's Stuart Shieber Thanks for this Alicia. C

[GOAL] Apologies

Apologies to all. I fear a spam message slipped past me a few moments ago and was posted to GOAL. Best wishes, Richard Poynder GOAL Moderator ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal

[GOAL] The OA Interviews: Ashry Aly of Ashdin Publishing

Ashry Aly is a former employee of Hindawi Publishing Corporation who left the company in 2007 to found Ashdin Publishing Ashdin Publishing is currently included on Jeffrey Beall's list of predatory publishers: http://scholarlyoa.com/2012/12/06/bealls-list-of-predatory-publishers-2013/ Aly

[GOAL] NISO Launches New Initiative to Develop Standard for Open Access Metadata and Indicators

[Forwarding from Cynthia Hodgson at NISO, via Peter Suber and SPARC OA Forum.] NISO Launches New Initiative to Develop Standard for Open Access Metadata and Indicators Interested participants from all library types, publishers, and funding agencies are encouraged to contact NISO Februar

[GOAL] EPT's 2nd Annual Award Recipient Iryna Kuchma, Ukraine

[Forwarding from the Electronic Publishing Trust for Development. –via Peter Suber and BOIA.] http://epublishingtrust.net/ept-2nd-annual-oa-award/ Electronic Publishing Trust for Development's 2nd Annual Award for individual effort in support of Open Access The Electronic Publishing Trust

[GOAL] RCUK publishes revised guidance on Open Access

Research Councils UK (RCUK) has today (6 March 2013) published the latest version of its guidance for its revised Policy on Open Access, which comes in to effect on 1 April 2013. This latest version draws the policy and the guidance together into one document and aims to give researchers, resea

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

In a Q&A interview, executive director of Rockefeller University Press Mike Rossner explains why he disagrees with the decision by Research Councils UK and The Wellcome Trust to insist that any Gold OA articles they fund should be made available under a CC-BY licence. Some extracts: "RCUK a

[GOAL] CC-BY Discussion

Dear All, Heather's last message is, I think, a fitting moment to end the discussion on CC-BY. There is probably little more to be gained by pursuing the matter any further at this point. Richard Poynder GOAL Moderator >> Thanks to everyone who has contribu

[GOAL] The Open Access Interviews: Johannes Fournier, speaking for the Global Research Council

During a two-day inaugural Global Summit on Merit Review held in Washington last May - which was organised by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) at the request of the White House Office of Science & Technology (OSTP) - a new organisation called the Global Research Council (GRC) came into bein

[GOAL] Open Access in Poland: Interview with Bożena Bednarek-Michalska

Bożena Bednarek-Michalska is an information specialist and deputy director of the Nicolaus Copernicus University Library in Torun, Poland. She is also a member of Poland's Open Education Coalition (KOED), a board member of SPARC Europe, and the EIFL-OA country coordinator for Poland. While cond

[GOAL] The UK's Open Access Policy: Controversy Continues

The new Open Access policy introduced this year by Research Councils UK — in response to last year’s Finch Report — has been very controversial, particularly its exhortation to researchers to “prefer” Gold over Green Open Access When it was first announced there was an outcry from UK universities

[GOAL] Developing a unified rule for openness: Interview with Alek Tarkowski

Twenty years ago the European Organisation for Nuclear Research - better known as CERN - published a statement that made the technology that underpins the Web available on a royalty-free basis. By making the software required to run a web server, along with a basic browser and a library of code, fr

[GOAL] Is Green Open Access in the process of fading away?

When last July Research Councils UK (RCUK) announced its new Open Access (OA) policy it sparked considerable controversy, not least because the policy required researchers to "prefer" Gold OA (OA publishing) over Green OA (self-archiving). The controversy was such that earlier this year the House o

[GOAL] BC Partners to buy Springer Science for 3.3 billion euros

Buyout firm BC Partners has agreed to buy German publisher Springer Science+Business Media for about 3.3 billion euros ($4.4 billion), the largest private-equity acquisition in Germany for seven years. More here: http://news.yahoo.com/bc-partners-buy-springer-science-3-3-billion-113332764 .html

[GOAL] FW: [SCHOLCOMM] Message from Emerald for Librarians

Forwarding from the Scholcomm mailing list. *Apologies for cross-posting* The staff and directors at Emerald have naturally been concerned about the feedback to the launch of its Gold Open Access model and the approach to self-archived content that is subject to a mandate. Emerald has de

[GOAL] Open Access: Where are we, what still needs to be done?

Making Open Access (OA) a reality has proved considerably more difficult and time consuming than OA advocates expected when they started out. It is now 19 years since cognitive scientist Stevan Harnad posted his Subversive Proposal calling on researchers to make their papers freely available on the

[GOAL] Where are we, what still needs to be done? Stevan Harnad on the state of Open Access

The second interview in a series exploring the current state of Open Access (OA) and what the priorities ought to be going forward. It is with self-styled archivangelist Stevan Harnad, who is currently Canada Research Chair in cognitive science at Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and professo

[GOAL] Fred Friend on the state of Open Access: Where are we, what still needs to be done?

The third Q&A in a series exploring the current state of Open Access has just been published This time the questions are answered by Fred Friend. By profession a librarian, Friend has long been an energetic and committed advocate for Open Access. He is also one of the small group of people who att

[GOAL] Heather Joseph on the state of Open Access: Where are we, what still needs to be done?

The fourth Q&A in a series exploring the current state of Open Access has been published. On this occasion the questions are answered by Heather Joseph. A former journal publisher, Joseph has in her time worked for both Elsevier and the Ameri

[GOAL] CORRECTION: Heather Joseph on the state of Open Access: Where are we, what still needs to be done?

alf Of Richard Poynder Sent: 13 July 2013 10:14 To: 'Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)' Subject: [GOAL] Heather Joseph on the state of Open Access: Where are we, what still needs to be done? The fourth Q&A in a series exploring the current state of Open Access has bee

[GOAL] CORRECTION: Heather Joseph on the state of Open Access: Where are we, what still needs to be done?

Many apologies to everyone. The URL in my last message was incorrect. It should be this: http://poynder.blogspot.in/2013/07/heather-joseph-on-state-of-open-access.ht ml From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Richard Poynder Sent: 13 July 2013

[GOAL] Eloy Rodrigues on the state of Open Access: Where are we, what still needs to be done?

The sixth Q&A in a series exploring the current state of Open Access has been published. On this occasion the questions are answered by Eloy Rodrigues, Portuguese librarian and Director of the University of Minho’s Documentation Services. Who better to describe what Rodrigues has contributed to

[GOAL] Danny Kingsley on the state of Open Access: Where are we, what still needs to be done?

The seventh Q&A in a series exploring the current state of Open Access has been published. On this occasion the questions are answered by Danny Kingsley, Executive Officer of the Australian Open Access Support Group (AOASG), an organisation founded at the end of last year by six Australian universi

[GOAL] Peter Suber on the state of Open Access: Where are we, what still needs to be done?

The eighth Q&A in a series exploring the current state of Open Access has been published. On this occasion the questions are answered by Peter Suber, de facto leader of the OA movement. Philosopher, jurist, and one-time stand-up comic, Peter Suber was one of the small group of people invited by

[GOAL] Dominique Babini on the state of Open Access: Where are we, what still needs to be done?

The ninth Q&A in a series exploring the current state of Open Access (OA) has been published. On this occasion the questions are answered by Dominique Babini, Open Access Advocacy leader at the Latin American Council on Social Sciences (CLACSO). Based in Argentina, CLACSO is an academic network of

[GOAL] IEEE's Anthony Durniak on the state of Open Access: Where are we, what still needs to be done?

The tenth Q&A in a series exploring the current state of Open Access has been published, this time with IEEE's Anthony Durniak. Durniak leads the professional staff that operate IEEE's publishing and online information services. He is also responsible for IEEE Spectrum, the organisation's flag

[GOAL] Alexander Grossmann on the state of Open Access: Where are we, what still needs to be done?

A new Q&A in a series exploring the current state of Open Access has been published. This one is with Alexander Grossmann, who earlier this year took up a post as Professor of Publishing Management at the Leipzig University of Applied Sciences. To do so Grossmann gave up a job as Vice President at

[GOAL] Alexander Grossmann on the state of Open Access: Where are we, what still needs to be done?

Apologies. I forgot to add the link to my last message. The Q&A with Alexander Grossmann can be read here: http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/alexander-grossmann-on-state-of-open.h tml Richard Poynder ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints

[GOAL] Cameron Neylon on the state of Open Access: Where are we, what still needs to be done?

A new Q&A in a series exploring the current state of Open Access has been published. This one is with Cameron Neylon, Advocacy Director for the non-profit OA publisher Public Library of Science (PLOS). *Some excerpts from Cameron Neylon's answers*: "I think the biggest achievement [of the

[GOAL] UK House of Commons Business, Innovation and Skills Committee to publish report on Open Access next Tuesday

Business, Innovation and Skills Committee Select Committee Announcement No.19 Wednesday 4 September, 2013 For immediate release Publication of Fifth Report-Open Access The Business, Innovation and Skills Committee will publish its Fifth Report of Session 2013-14, Open Access (HC 99-I)

[GOAL] UK House of Commons Select Committee publishes report criticising RCUK's Open Access Policy

can be accessed: http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/uk-house-of-commons-select-committee.h tml Richard Poynder ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal

[GOAL] De Gruyter's Sven Fund on the state of Open Access: Where are we, what still needs to be done?

A new Q&A in a series exploring the current state of Open Access has been published. This one is with Sven Fund, CEO of Berlin-based scholarly publisher De Gruyter. Fund is the first representative of a traditional commercial publisher to take part in this series. *Some excerpts from Sven Fund'

[GOAL] Open Access in Serbia: Interview with Biljana Kosanović

I have published an interview with Biljana Kosanović, Head of the Department of Scientific Information at the National Library of Serbia in Belgrade. In the interview Kosanović talks about the research environment in Serbia, about access to international journals, about local Serbian journals

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

lish I would welcome comments on these matters. Richard Poynder From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Stevan Harnad Sent: 25 September 2013 23:00 To: jisc-repositories; Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Subject: [GOAL] Re: Elsevier K

[GOAL] Björn Brembs on the state of Open Access: Where are we, what still needs to be done?

I have posted a further Q&A in the series I have been doing exploring the current state of Open Access. This one is with Björn Brembs, Professor of Neurogenetics at the University of Regensburg in Germany. Brembs, who self-characterises himself as a “disgruntled user of a dysfunctional scholar

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

e for lower price points. Overall, as things stand, we do not agree that OA poses a significant threat to publishers, in particular not to their share price developments." The Q&A can be read here: http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/media-research-analyst-at-exane-bnp.ht ml

[GOAL] The last post

Dear All, The last post was inappropriate for the list as it was an off-topic promotional message. It was not my intention to post it, but I am afraid I hit the wrong button. Apologies to all. Richard Poynder GOAL Moderator ___ GOAL

[GOAL] Elsevier's Philippe Terheggen on the state of Open Access: Where are we, what still needs to be done?

A new Q&A in a series exploring the current state of Open Access has been published. This one is with Philippe Terheggen Director Journal Development and Support at Elsevier. Terheggen, who is responsible for all 2,500 of Elsevier's journals, is the second representative of a traditional commercial

[GOAL] Let's be open about Open Access

To what extent should we expect publishers who profess a commitment to Open Access to be open in other ways too? This is a question often raised in discussions about OA. Some, for instance, argue that OA ought to go hand-in-hand with open peer review (particularly in light of the recent "sting" of

[GOAL] Michelle Willmers on the state of Open Access: Where are we, what still needs to be done?

A new Q&A in a series exploring the current state of Open Access has been published. This one is with Michelle Willmers, Project Manager of the OpenUCT Initiative at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa. A former journal publishing manager, Michelle Willmers was drawn to the Open A

[GOAL] Ann Okerson on the state of Open Access: Where are we, what still needs to be done?

A new Q&A in a series exploring the current state of Open Access has been published. This one is with Ann Okerson, Senior Advisor on Electronic Strategies for the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), and a former Associate University Librarian at Yale University. Okerson also serves as a consultant

[GOAL] UK Business, Innovation and Skills Committee Publishes Government Response and RCUK response to its report on Open Access

Business, Innovation and Skills Committee Select Committee Announcement No.35 Tuesday 26 November 2013 COMMITTEE PUBLISHES GOVERNMENT RESPONSE AND RCUK RESPONSE TO ITS REPORT ON OPEN ACCESS Today, the Business, Innovation and Skills Committee is publishing the Government Response and

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

List members can also refer to the following article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, which includes comments from the founder and CEO of Academia.edu Richard Price, and from Elsevier: http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/posting-your-latest-article-you-might -have-to-take-it-down/48865

[GOAL] Message from the moderator

tion". In fact, given that many OA publishers are now experimenting with (or thinking of experimenting with) alternative forms of peer review one could argue that the subject should no longer be considered off topic. Richard Poynder GOAL Moderator

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