Nature December 13, 2021. Delhi court will scrutinize whether the pirate paper website falls foul of India’s copyright law. The verdict could have implications for academic publishers further afield. Delhi court will scrutinize whether the pirate paper website falls foul of India’s copyright law. The verdict could have implications for academic publishers further afield.
Article about Sci-Hub and ahat ought to be done i "Palladium - governance futurism" on Sept 24, 2021 By Jason Parry. Supports David Wiley's "thought experiment" on using Eminent Domain (expropriation).
(Le Monde diplomatique, octobre 2021) Alors que la production des connaissances scientifiques relève pour l'essentiel de la dépense publique, les revenus de leur publication sont captés par des mastodontes de l'édition, qui imposent leurs priorités et leurs tarifs. Cette position dominante de quelques acteurs privés entrave la diffusion du savoir et s'accompagne de nombreux effets délétères.
China is working on a master plan for the internationalisation of its domestic journals and plans to pursue an open science strategy at a national level
2019 How librarians, pirates, and funders are liberating the world’s academic research from paywalls. Featuring Elaine Westworth, Aileen Fyfe, Theodora Bloom et al
"What’s standing in the way of a full-on revolution? The culture of science. "
"But there’s a big thing getting in the way of a revolution: prestige-obsessed scientists who continue to publish in closed-access journals. They’re like the road workers who keep paying fees to build infrastructure they can’t freely access. Until that changes, the walls will remain firmly intact."
The latest strategy for addressing the serials crisis that has fueled the crisis in scholarly publishing across the disciplines is the establishment of transformative open access agreements.
March 16, 2021
The agreement is the largest of its kind in North America to date, bringing together UC, which generates nearly 10 percent of all U.S. research output, and Elsevier, which disseminates about 17 percent of journal articles produced by UC faculty. The deal will double the number of articles made available through UC’s transformative open access agreements.
Tidsskrift.dk er Det Kgl. Biblioteks nationale portal for publicering af faglige, videnskabelige og kulturelle tidsskrifter i digital fuldtekst.
Tidsskrift.dk er ligeledes en del af Danmarks Nationale Strategi for Open Access, som støttes af Uddannelses- og Forskningsministeriet.
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Prabir Purkayastha26 Dec 2020
Three academic publishers are asking for blocking of Sci-Hub and Libgen in India, two websites who provide free downloads of research publications and books to research scholars and students. The three—Elsevier Ltd., Wiley India Pvt. Ltd., American Chemical Society—have filed a petition in Delhi High Court, which is now scheduled to be heard next on January 6.