Erinnerung: Wir haben gerade drei Stellen im Bereich Publikationsdienste @tibhannover ausgeschrieben, bei zweien endet die Bewerbungsfrist schon in den nächsten Tagen. Teilt das bitte weiter bzw. bewerbt Euch bitte :-)
Our final session of the event! @pippasmart and @mattjhodgkinson went head to head, with seconders, Alice Ellingham and Jadranka Stojanovski in the controversially framed debate on "open access will reduce quality in scientific publishing"
Smart - arguing for the motion:
The principle of open access is putting too much strain on academic publishing.
Approach to accessibility favors only the wealthy at the expense of quality and reliability of articles.
Yes, I'm an abolitionist, too:
"If the UK university sector has to choose over the next few years between sacking hundreds of academic staff and ditching its voluntary subsidy to the publishing industry, I know what I would pick." https://telescoper.blog/2023/06/02/abolishing-an-industry/
Hallo Mastodon!
Wir sind der Open-Access-Verlag Berlin Universities Publishing und sind jetzt auch auf Mastodon unterwegs. Wir werden euch hier mit Informationen zum Verlag, unseren Publikationen und Services und anderen OA-Themen versorgen und freuen uns über Follower aus der Wissenschaft und der Open-Access-Community. #NeuHier#OpenAccess
Could the new conclusions of the Council of the EU on #scholcomm spell the beginning of the end of scholarly journals and academic publishers as we know them?
“We welcome proposals to found new journals as well as proposals to transfer existing journals to PsychOpen GOLD (e.g., transforming a subscription based journal to an Open Access journal). Applications are invited from scientists and scholarly societies from all parts of the world.
PsychOpen GOLD journals are published completely free of charge for readers, authors, and editors or scholarly societies (Diamond Open Access)”
The conservation of religious heritage still in use poses a number of very complex problems: "Conservation of Living Religious Heritage" (Nicholas Stanley-Price Robert Killick Herb Stovel, 2003).
"Sometimes the conservator’s instincts (to preserve material fabric and to minimize change) run counter to the religious community’s interest in continuity and renewal. The traditional desire of resident
monks to renew painted surfaces can sometimes conflict with official conservation policy, as has happened at the World Heritage site of Dambulla in Sri Lanka. At Anthony Island on Canada’s West Coast, also a World Heritage site and home to the last surviving in situ cluster of Haida Indian totem poles, the choice of ‘continuity’ as the primary conservation goal has meant allowing poles to decay, while resisting calls from conservators to have them removed to museum environments".
We are about to kick off a campaign that sums up our critical engagement with the term “openness”. Every Wednesday for the next 10 weeks, we will be sharing resources on where #OpenMovement currently stands 📬 Looking forward to your feedback!
Il mio Kindle ha quasi 10 anni e pensavo di sostituirlo
Ho iniziato a guardarmi intorno e ho trovato un articolo degli amici della Free Software Foundation #FSF che racconta come, ad ogni pasaggio di versione, Kindle diventa un device sempre più chiuso
In altri termini è sempre più difficile fare un #jailbreak per installare #sw alternativi come KOreader