Friday, January 9, 2015

Why All Peer-Reviewed Journals Should Be Open Access | Podiatry Today


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Posted: 08 Jan 2015 01:25 AM PST
"The philanthropist Bill Gates is someone I admire very much because he is making a difference in the world, particularly in developing countries. As of January 1, 2015 the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will require all peer-reviewed published research either fully or partially funded by the foundation to be published in open access journals. There is a two-year transition for this to occur, but by 2017 the 12-month embargo period to allow journals to charge for articles will lift and open access to peer-reviewed published articles funded by the foundation must be immediate ..."
Posted: 08 Jan 2015 01:23 AM PST
[From Google's English] "The open access movement between past few years in a political phase . The use of "informal" standards today shows its limits. Successive statements of Berlin and Budapest and generalization Creative Commons licenses are not enough to reform the system as a whole of scientific publishing. The free dissemination of research still faces a major obstacle: researchers or their institutions often do not have the right to republish. The methods of assessments in effect act preeminence periodic owned by major publishers: the list of qualifying journals AERES is emblematic of this actively encouraged by government consecration. Some sections are up disciplinary avoided any open access publishing. This social pressure or political causes massive enclosure. Most of the research funded by public funds are now held by an oligopoly, able to unilaterally impose its conditions. Elsevier has entered into a national license for 5 years with France for a total amount of 172 million euros. Upstream, researchers often have to pay to be published: they acquire 'premium' content (the right to publish additional graphic or a color image, which in 2015 is an absolute luxury ...) when they do not charge the full cost of the editorial process ... To foil this vicious circle, there is no alternative: we must change the rules of the game The authority of the big publishers depends on a very favorable legal context ..."
Posted: 08 Jan 2015 01:12 AM PST
"Dutch universities have vowed not to soften their groundbreaking demands for publishers to permit all papers published by their academics to be made open access for no extra charge. In January last year, Sander Dekker, the Dutch minister for education, culture and science, decreed that 60 per cent of Dutch research articles must be open access by 2019 and 100 per cent by 2024. Dutch university presidents responded by agreeing to make their renewal of subscription deals dependent on publishers taking steps to realise this goal. Gerard Meijer, president of Radboud University and one of the lead negotiators for the Dutch universities, said that in addition to preserving access to their subscription journals, the universities wanted publishers to permit all future articles whose corresponding author has a Dutch affiliation to be published on an open access basis for no extra charge. He said universities were also unwilling to tolerate any more above-inflation price rises. A deal that meets the universities' requirements was recently made with Springer, the world's second-largest science journal publisher. Professor Meijer said this showed that the transition to a fully open access business model could be made by traditional publishers. Discussions have also begun with Wiley, Sage and Oxford University Press. But in November, the Association of Universities in the Netherlands, known by the acronym VSNU, revealed that negotiations with Elsevier, the world's largest science journal publisher, had broken down after the Amsterdam-based firm tabled an offer that "totally fails to address" the universities' demands. On 16 December, the VSNU announced that negotiations had resumed after Elsevier made another offer. It also said that Dutch universities' current big deal with the publisher, which was due to expire on 1 January, would automatically be extended by one year, temporarily maintaining Dutch universities' access to the publisher's suite of 2,200 journals, which include Cell and The Lancet ..."
Posted: 08 Jan 2015 01:09 AM PST
"Last year Authors Alliance turned to a cartoon monkey, MailChimp, to handle our email. The chimp had more to offer than we realized, and through them we gained an unexpected view of fame, ca 2015, and the hidden virtue of sharing stuff for free. At year's end MailChimp was celebrated with the breakthrough podcast it sponsored, Serial, true crime journalism from public radio. Both chimp and reporters were embedded in the online chatter of fans (more than 5 million listeners) and the Saturday Night Live parody (more than 12 million viewers). The adage that "time, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success" could have been the New Year's toast for both the writers and the software entrepreneurs. Serial built on more than a decade of skills developed on public radio, especially This American Life. If you search your email In box for "MailChimp," you will find that institutions you trust have quietly turned to MailChimp in recent years. This is stimulating history for Authors Alliance because it is another reminder that good writing and inspired ways of sharing work can be, in the long run, the way to standout. Serious writers deserve all that the market will provide as they reach their first audience, readers we may all hope will be renewed for years. But when that audience yields no real commercial benefit to author or publisher, it is time to embrace the MailChimp idea of 'freemium' ..."
Posted: 08 Jan 2015 12:55 AM PST
"Finding open access content on Taylor & Francis Online is now even easier with the site's new open access navigation tab. You can now easily discover every open access article published in a hybrid subscription and open access journal, as part of Taylor & Francis Open Select publishing program. Open Select articles are no longer just in the table of contents, but can be found via the navigation tab in the left hand bar of any subscription journal that has open access articles published in it. Just look for 'Open access articles', click on the tab, and it will take you to all the open access articles within that journal, listed in reverse chronological order. What are you waiting for? Discover what open access articles are available in your favorite journals today: http://www.tandfonline.com/"
Posted: 08 Jan 2015 12:46 AM PST
It would be a lot better if the Netherlands adopted a policy requiring Dutch researchers to make their published research OA rather than fussing about publishing costs and the costs of OA publishing. Harnad, S (2014) The only way to make inflated journal subscriptions unsustainable: Mandate Green Open Access. LSE Impact of Social Sciences Blog 4/28
Posted: 08 Jan 2015 12:46 AM PST
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