Alice Meadows: "...while most of us agree that OA can benefit authors and readers, it is simplistic to assume that these benefits apply equally across all disciplines. "
"What is your dangerous idea? An idea you think about (not necessarily one you originated) that is dangerous not because it is assumed to be false, but because it might be true?" asked to "who's who" of third culture scientists and science-minded thinkers
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.
A new OA tool from the French, doai.io. If you've found a live DOI Web link that can only take you to a paywall article, then replacing http://dx.doi.org/ with http://doai.io/ will get a URL that tries to find a free version via BASE. BASE is only middling for finding open access articles. It currently has…
Kimmo Tuominen, ylikirjastonhoitaja, professori, Helsingin yliopiston kirjasto: "Kiplingin runossa läntinen teesi ja itäinen antiteesi päätyvät veriveljeyden synteesiin. Myös tiedejulkaisemisen käytäntöjen tervehdyttäminen edellyttää kolmatta tietä tieteellisen kommunismin ja kapitalistisen julkaisuteollisuuden välissä. "Teknologisten ja sosiaalisten julkaisuinnovaatioiden lisäksi tarvitsemme etenkin tiedepoliittista kaukonäköisyyttä. Yliopistojen rahoitusmalliratkaisut eivät saa sementoida tiedejulkaisemisen nykymalleja ja pönkittää kohtuuttomasti jo ennestään vahvojen suuryritysten asemaa."
The past month has seen a flurry of activity in the Open Access (OA) space, most of it focused on the UK. Martin Hall, Vice-Chancellor, University of Salford Events were triggered by the publication on 18th June of the eagerly awaited Finch Report. Chaired by Dame Janet Finch, a sociologist at the University of Manchester,
"SSRN delivered its 75 millionth full-text PDF download in late April and we are excited about our continued growth; 77 million to date. The SSRN eLibrary currently has 550,000 paper abstracts from 257,000 authors and received 64,000 new full-text submissions in the past year. We are also happy to be working with a diverse group of organizations to help them reach a broader audience. SSRN's CiteReader technology, built with ITX Corp., has extracted 9 million references and 9.1 million footnotes, and matched 5.9 million citations from our 455,000 full text papers. The References from Footnotes technology, which is an important benefit to legal scholars, has extracted 213,000 references."
Most open-access publishers charge fees that are much lower than the industry's average revenue, although there is a wide scatter between journals. The largest open-access publishers - BioMed Central and PLoS - charge $1,350-2,250 to publish peer-reviewed articles in many of their journals, although their most selective offerings charge $2,700-2,900. In a survey published last year2, economists Bo-Christer Björk of the Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki and David Solomon of Michigan State University in East Lansing looked at 100,697 articles published in 1,370 fee-charging open-access journals active in 2010 (about 40% of the fully open-access articles in that year), and found that charges ranged from $8 to $3,900. Higher charges tend to be found in 'hybrid' journals, in which publishers offer to make individual articles free in a publication that is otherwise paywalled (see 'Price of prestige').
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