"The #EU is ready to agree that immediate #OpenAccess to papers reporting publicly funded research should become the norm, w/o authors having to pay fees & that the bloc should support #nonprofit scholarly publishing models.
Today I will be posting thoughts about Aaron Swartz, who died on this day in 2013. The academic community should be much more aware of him, and challenge the massive problem of academic publishing that we are all part of. Let's make it our mission to tell people about Aaron and what he stood for.
The European Mathmatical Society, working with research libraries, have found a way to make ALL of the research journals they publish open access, without the need for author-side fees (no APCs!). Bravo @EuroMathSoc
Are you working on a project that makes the internet better for everyone? We support projects like yours both financially & practically. The next deadline for our rolling open calls is October 1.
Applying is simple, just fill out the one-page form. You can request between €5 000 & €50 000 euros. Open source, open data, open hardware & open standards projects are welcome. All outcomes must be published under an #opensource license & papers as #openaccess. https://nlnet.nl/news/2023/20230801-call.html #FOSS#funding
Hi again #Mastodon!
I joined the fediverse when a lot of my community had not migrated from the bird site, so could only partially reconstruct it here using automated tools. If I followed you there and don’t here, say hi and let’s reconnect!
This article is an opinion piece in which we argue that social scientists cannot simply port their work from X to #Mastodon or the rest of the #fediverse. There are key differences in culture, expectations of privacy, and of course topology to consider.
We worry about the spread of #misinformation and "alternative facts" while gating academic and scientific research behind paywalls that grossly limit public access.
New study: "We find that scientists are overwhelmingly (95%) failing to publish their #code and that there has been no significant improvement over time, but we also find evidence that code sharing can considerably improve #citations, particularly when combined with #OpenAccess publication." https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-3222221/v1
We are cOAlition S, an international consortium of research funding & performing organisations, aiming to make full and immediate Open Access to research publications a reality by implementing #Plan_S
Why we think every scholarly organization, but in particular scholarly societies, should not just migrate to #Mastodon, but host their own instances - and what that has to do with the journals many scholarly societies use to generate revenue:
We do the writing. We do the editing. We do the reviewing. We do the formatting (we typeset everything in LaTeX). We do the proofreading. We correct the mistakes introduced by proofreaders.
What do publishers do? They make us sign silly copyright forms, stamp their logo on our papers, and then proceed to charge us (either as authors or readers) ridiculous amounts.
People think academics/scientists are clever. We might be. But we are also stupid. And vain.
A short interview on occasion of #oaw23 on why the EU science ministers are completely dead on with their demand to replace current academic journals with "interoperable, not-for-profit infrastructures":
I just made a donation to the Archive and encourage those who can and care to do the same: all donations until Dec 31st are matched by a generous anonymous donator, so now is the best time to help. It is tax-deductible in the US: https://archive.org/donate
"When submitting an article to a publisher you should include the following statement in your submission:
'For the purpose of open access, the author(s) has applied a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission.'
Doing so ensures that […] we can still make it #OpenAccess."
Interesting paper out this week that makes a compelling case the ocean and subsurface warming is driving #Antarctic#SeaIce decline. They suggest the Southern Ocean has shifted to a new state since 2016.
I suspect this is not the end of the story, but it's very well written by Ariana Purich and Edward Dodderidge.
(And bless the authors for putting it #OA so I can read on my phone while waiting to collect kids) #OpenAccess
The story of #SciHub and its founder Alexandra Elbakyan in her fight against the global network of academic journals that underlie published scientific research.
Putting their money where their mouth is, the EU decides to make academic publishing open source:
"utilizing existing open-source software has its own advantages and disadvantages. Although some risks are associated with this approach, our research has identified a few mature existing solutions that could be further developed to support the future ORE platform." https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/cc087fd8-82b3-11ee-99ba-01aa75ed71a1/language-en
The paper draws on federalist political theory to talk about how Mastodon instances use codes of conduct to build out a network of shared ethical values. It's fundamental to how I'm thinking about what the #fediverse can be.