RT @petersuber
I don't have the data for my topic (#OpenAccess to research) but my experience matches your description — "Fewer active [participants], fewer tweets, fewer likes per tweet, fewer retweets per tweet, and less likely to go viral." Much more activity on #Mastodon. https://twitter.com/RARohde/status/1649052257844072449
Over 30,000 archival items associated with scientific papers presented to the #RoyalSociety (London) are now available on the new 'Science in the Making' archive, covering 1665-1949. https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/
Includes original manuscripts submitted to the RS; correspondence; lots of #images (many never published, and in colour); and >14,000 #peerreview reports.
Essential browsing for historians of science, and not just science. (Search '#mozart'!)
Glasfaser
In den vier Wohngebieten in meiner Umgebung läuft die Nachfragebündelung diese Woche aus. Das Interesse liegt in den Wohngebieten zwischen 10 und 23% der Haushalte, kein Gebiet liegt derzeit bei den erforderlichen 33%.
Glasfaserausbau, Digitalisierung und moderne Infrastruktur in Deutschland hat eben was mit gesellschaftlichem Interesse an diesen Technologien zu tun.
RT @EileenAJoy
I’m afraid I agree. For #OpenAccess more largely & also with @punctum_books I’ve fought against the “prestige problem.” We shouldn’t care about it at all. That’s the real problem. Belief in prestige will never wane. Hang out with different people in spaces no one goes to. https://twitter.com/saggiotipo/status/1650549612426452992
@per#JFR started in 1989 as a printed journal for German speaking family researchers. In 2020, we finally dropped the German title, started to publish in English only, online only and platinum #openaccess only. — We have some notes on our history on the website: https://ubp.uni-bamberg.de/jfr/index.php/jfr/about#history
Listened to the "Library of Alexandra" podcast last night - much more than I expected! A live, in-person interview with Alexandra Elbakyan at her mother's home in Kazakhstan. How Sci-Hub was born. The real story about why new papers are not appearing on Sci-Hub (a court case in India led by a young volunteer). Her strategy and hopes for the future of accessible science...
I've spent the morning with a bunch of colleagues from across my university working on our project to to get the university to foster #OpenScience / #OpenScholarship as a priority. We're talking about hiring processes, #OpenSource software, research dissemination #OpenAccess,, evaluation... all kinds of things. It's really exciting and I'm hopeful that due to the interdisciplinary nature the organizers ensured in our process, this will have legs.
A current worry: The only people with existing deep expertise in things like how the atmosphere/ocean/geosphere work are academics, who are ace at giving impartial evidence-based advice. But as lots of climate “solutions” companies spring up, these academics are consulting with them & in some cases leaving academia to work for them (often much better pay & working conditions) & are then limited in what they can tell the rest of us. So the public source of open unbiased expertise is at risk.
I have interviewed many hundreds of scientists for the BBC, Fully Charged and others over many years, and I can tell you that however nice, capable and well-intentioned they are, the ones working for companies ALWAYS have their boss and the company’s investors at the back of their minds. It’s never the same sort of conversation. So what happens when we, the public, need expertise and realise that we don’t have access to it any more, even though we paid for it to develop? #climate#OpenAccess
"Elsevier…set the NeuroImage APC…at $3,450 USD. Compared against this, estimates of direct article costs at relevant journals are generally around $1,000 or lower.…It is wrong for publishers to make such high profits."
We have received a $1M grant from the @MellonFdn to expand the Catalog of Open Infrastructure Services (COIs) + explore and test new models to finance #openinfrastructure.
"Much of the attention of methodologists has focused on how to recognize and control for unwanted factors that can affect outcomes of interest. But psychology is also important: it tells us that own human biases can be just as important in leading us astray"
Hi fediverse! We’re moving our social media stream to an open source community that better reflects our values and interests. We’ll post updates from our Center and related news from Indiana’s open knowledge, scholarly communication, and academic library constituents. #Introduction#openaccess#libraries#Indiana#Indianapolis
"I run #AnnasArchive, the world’s largest open-source non-profit search engine for shadow libraries, like SciHub, #LibraryGenesis, and ZLibrary.
Our goal is to make knowledge and culture readily accessible, […]and preserve all the books in the world"
"In this article I’ll show how we run this website, and the unique challenges that come with operating a website with questionable legal status, since there is no “AWS for shadow charities”."
"Implementing the #NelsonMemo via an #APC model is antithetical to the equity goals so clearly articulated in the guidance memo and the values of our institutions."
Another excerpt: "As representatives of some of the most well-resourced #libraries in the country, we are committed to using our resources to promote public access to all research, not just the research our scholars produce. If public access to research outputs is achieved via a pay-to-publish model, we will have squandered an opportunity to promote #equity in scholarly communication."
Another excerpt: "We want to highlight the dangers of allowing the interests of commercial #publishers to dictate the paths available to [#OpenAccess]…We refer here to the…#APC (article processing charge)…and/or institutional #ReadAndPublish agreements where libraries pay bulk APCs on behalf of their scholars and unlock institutional access to read pay-walled content."
"Article processing charges (#APCs) and read-and-publish models…reinforce inequities in scholarly publishing…These models typically move the #paywall from the reader to the author which excludes many authors in the global #South. The UK is already unusual in its over-reliance on read-and-publish agreements to achieve #OpenAccess."
If you've personally been through the process of submitting to something like the "WikiJournal of Science" or similar #OpenAccess journal - I'd love to pick your brains!