[…] I hope that the naysayers who read and disagree with my position will also be encouraged to attend (with an open-mind) and have a productive dialogue with me and others. You can learn more about Dr Williams’ pre-conference workshop on […]
[…] the world becomes increasingly fast-paced and digital, and early-career researchers are leading the charge in adopting (and expecting) a more open research approach. Preprint platforms are becoming accepted and even celebrated fixtures of the research community in some fields. This […]
[…] to talk about textbook options with professors as they make their selection for an upcoming semester. When I bring up Open Educational Resources (OERs) or other non-traditional materials, the most frequent protest is that the quality of these materials will […]
Scholarly communications — like the wider world — is increasingly divided. The rhetoric around non-profit versus commercial organizations, open versus subscription models, publishers versus librarians, is often presented in a very black and white, good versus bad way. Yet we […]
[…] Journals/Association Canadienne des Revues Savantes Council of Science Editors International Society of Managing and Technical Editors Library Publishing Coalition NASIG Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association Society for Scholarly Publishing UK Serials Group (have not signed the Joint Statement of Principles) Please […]
[…] at a huge premium. Has anyone noticed a sharp uptick in DDA book prices? I didn’t think so. And #3: open access monographs. Part of the reason (not the only reason) for the enthusiasm for OA books is that it is […]
[…] rise in anti-Blackness. It’s one thing if my co-worker holds racist views but can never act upon them in an open and blatantly disrespectful way. In that situation, I can still do my work comfortably. But when they can act […]
[…] nerd. Here, Kent Anderson looks at the subtle design cues that play such an important role in what we do. Open Access Publisher Accepts Nonsense Manuscript for Dollars (43,940 views): Open access stings? We were into those back before they were […]
[…] Springer Nature, and Wolters Kluwer Health. The original idea was to create a challenging agenda of issues and a candid, open forum in which to address them. We wanted to find common ground — a mutual language and a shared […]
Why do authors continue to cite preprints years after they’ve been formally published?
[…] these disciplines play a large and vital role in higher education; nor do these figures represent the relative weight of open access (OA) publications, which typically bear less revenue than their paywalled counterparts. But you get the idea: there is money […]
[…] could be a threat to their recurring revenues at multiple points in the prospectus, including this: A trend towards “gold” open access models could decrease the quality and the depth of content available for our traditional Academic Research subscription publications and […]
[…] all the time. Predatory journals are scamming unsuspecting authors by promising quick publication, and low, low fees to a never-heard-of-before open access journal. Alternatively, it may be true that some authors are the ones taking advantage of low cost OA in […]
[…] a very early stage. Blockchain also allows publishers to easily integrate micropayments, thereby creating a potentially interesting business model alongside open access and subscriptions. Moreover, blockchain as a datastore with no central owner where information can be stored pseudonymously could support […]
[…] (and 99% of new members since the option has been available) have marked themselves on their online profile as ‘ open to collaboration’ in a wide number of different development topics including agriculture, healthcare/medicine, environmental sciences, and business. In addition, […]