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MIT dropped its contract with Elsevier, the huge scientific journal company. Their library instead arranged alternate access to journals and tools for researchers to get them. They’re saving $2 million/year:
https://sparcopen.org/our-work/big-deal-knowledge-base/unbundling-profiles/mit-libraries/
#academicpublishing #OpenAccess #science #scientificpublishing
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/16/academic-journal-publishers-universities-price-subscriptions
#Diamond #OpenAccess
Academic journals are a lucrative scam – and we’re determined to change that
Giant publishers are bleeding universities dry, with profit margins that rival Google’s. So we decided to start our own, says academic Arash AbizadehArash Abizadeh (The Guardian)
Congratulations to a Faculty Committee at the University of Rhode Island for calling for the closure of the university's #OpenAccess Fund which supports APCs. The Committee argues that "rather than covering APC expenses of a small number of URI faculty, OA Fund resources should be redirected toward efforts that will have greater impact."
These actions align with the #BOAI20 Recommendations to move away from APCs.
Full report: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED650495.pdf
#NewSpecies!
New freshwater crab from #indonesia just pinched us:
Lepidothelphusa menneri
Treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DE879E-FFF9-FFBE-1FBF-FE0DFCFB7405
Publication: http://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5397.2.3
#Zootaxa
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #arthropods #crustacea #crabs
Lepidothelphusa menneri n. sp. (Crustacea: Brachyura: Gecarcinucidae), first record of the genus from Kalimantan, Indonesia
The gecarcinucid freshwater crab genus, Lepidothelphusa Colosi, 1920, is known only from Sarawak in northern Borneo, with six recognised species i.e. Lepidothelphusa cognettii (Nobili, 1903); L. flavochela Grinang & Ng, 2015; L.doi.org
New species concept just dropped ... no, wait, it actually seems useful. Wayne Maddison & Jeannette Whitton published in @SystBiol's #DiamondOA BSSB so it's free to read and free to authors. Even if the concept itself doesn't take off, I think lots of lectures are going to use the figures and ideas.
https://ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bssb/article/view/9358
#Systematics #SpeciesConcepts #Evolution #Conservation #OpenAccess
The Species as a Reproductive Community Emerging From the Past
Biologists and philosophers of science have been unable to fully resolve the decades-long controversy as to what kind of unit of living biodiversity should receive the valued label “species”: reproductive communities (among sexual organisms), genealo…ssbbulletin.org
#Elsevier #publishing #AcademicPublishing #OpenAccess #NoDeal
Very happy to share our new publication in PLOS ONE:
KIPEs3: Automatic annotation of biosynthesis pathways
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0294342
Excellent work by Andreas Rempel (Bielefeld University) and Nancy Choudhary (@PuckerLab @tubraunschweig #Bioinformatics #OpenAccess
KIPEs3: Automatic annotation of biosynthesis pathways
Flavonoids and carotenoids are pigments involved in stress mitigation and numerous other processes. Both pigment classes can contribute to flower and fruit coloration.doi.org
Psst -- look whose article made its way into the Communications of the @ACM...
@jlovato, PhD (🎉),
@amcasari,
and me!
Hope you enjoy our labor of love 💜🦦
#OpenSource #OpenAccess #BestPractices
https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2023/10/276630-beyond-the-repository/fulltext
New study: "We find that scientists are overwhelmingly (95%) failing to publish their #code and that there has been no significant improvement over time, but we also find evidence that code sharing can considerably improve #citations, particularly when combined with #OpenAccess publication."
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-3222221/v1
#Impact #OACA #OpenSource #Reproducibility
Code sharing increases citations, but remains uncommon
Biologists increasingly rely on computer code, reinforcing the importance of published code for transparency, reproducibility, training, and a basis for further work.www.researchsquare.com
Hi again #Mastodon!
I joined the fediverse when a lot of my community had not migrated from the bird site, so could only partially reconstruct it here using automated tools. If I followed you there and don’t here, say hi and let’s reconnect!
For those who don’t know me, I am a #virologist by training with almost 20 years of experience as a #science #editor, a passion for #microbiology and all science really, #OpenScience #openaccess & people
Have a lovely day everyone
This is how you do #openaccess:
"At an estimated cost of €30 (US$34) per publication, Psicológica can increase its output without incurring substantial extra costs."
Why we think every scholarly organization, but in particular scholarly societies, should not just migrate to #Mastodon, but host their own instances - and what that has to do with the journals many scholarly societies use to generate revenue:
The US National Science Foundation (#NSF) just released the draft update to its #OpenAccess policy, as requested by the #Biden #OSTP (#NelsonMemo).
https://nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/2023-06/NSF23104.pdf
I'm digesting it now but wanted it to share first.
Tho released today, it's dated Feb 23, 2023. (Why?)
Some of the #publishers fighting #BookBans and celebrating #PrideMonth are also suing the @internetarchive. "If anything, Pride Month should be the moment in which publishers join librarians in their efforts to make as much knowledge as available as possible to as many people as possible. #OpenAccess is thus an essential tool in the fight for #LGBTQIA+ rights and minority rights in general."
https://punctumbooks.pubpub.org/pub/book-bans-pride-month-open-access/release/1
Kudos to the Royal Astronomical Society (@royalastrosoc) for converting all its #journals to #OpenAccess, starting in 2024 — and for having a #Mastodon account.
https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/news/royal-astronomical-society-announces-all-journals-publish-open-access-2024
#astronomy #conversions #flipping #societies
Royal Astronomical Society announces all journals to publish as open access from 2024
The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) has today announced that all journals published by the Society will be Open Access (OA) from January 2024. This move will enable...The Royal Astronomical Society
"An open database of 46,853,993 free scholarly articles.
We harvest Open Access content from over 50,000 publishers and repositories, and make it easy to find, track, and use."
https://unpaywall.org/
#research #PeerReviewed #AcademicJournals #OpenAccess
We're Open Book Publishers: a non-profit, scholar-led, open access press publishing award-winning #OpenAccess books.
🌐 https://www.openbookpublishers.com/
📝 https://blogs.openbookpublishers.com/
📖 https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books
All our books are open access, and we don't charge authors a Book Processing Charge to publish with us. We pioneered a Library Membership model to support our work -- find out more:
📚 https://www.openbookpublishers.com/libraries
We're also building open, community-owned infrastructure to support #OAbooks with @copim.
We're looking forward to meeting people and getting to know hcommons.social! We might cross-post from Twitter for a bit while we find our feet, but we're excited to find out more about Mastodon as its own space.
Say hi if you're interested in our work!
#Introduction #OAbooks #OpenAccess #OA #OpenInfrastructure #LibraryTwitter
Home
We publish high-quality, open access academic research in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Read all our books for free online.www.openbookpublishers.com
Interesting #paper on the availability of #statistical #code in European Urology papers. And a checklist to get us all thinking about how good the code we share is.
thanks for finding and posting it first @MarkKelson
🔗 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6705117/
#Science #OpenScience #Reproducibility #Research #OpenAccess
We are very happy to be here! For those of us who don't know us, #PlosBiology is an #OpenAccess, #nonprofit scientific journal.
We are the PLOS flagship in the #LifeSciences. Our policies aim to depressurize de publication process & increase transparency. As all of PLOS, we're staunch promoters of #OpenScience.
Take a look at our current issue, with a gorgeous photo on the cover taken by one of our staff editors when she lived in #SouthAfrica
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/issue
Tetiana Yaroshenko talks about #OpenAccess #OpenScience #OpenData and the 20th anniversary of #BudapestOpenAccessInitiative. How it was and where we are going https://budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/ acknowledges the role #OpenSocietyFoundations
played in the OA movement #BOAI20 #OAWeek #Science #News
BOAI20
The Budapest Open Access Initiative:20th Anniversary RecommendationsPrefaceThe Budapest Open Access Initiative celebrated its 20th anniversary on February 14, 2022.To mark thebudapestopenaccessinitiative.org
Overview of 102 standards and specifications, organized into ten categories. Essential ones were selected by defining an open standard for scholarly publishing as an uniformly documented, widely accepted and used, openly accessible / extensible specification that is applied to the creation, description, production, and dissemination […] #science
https://doi.org/10.14293/S2199-1006.1.SOR-.PPNKUIH.v1
Überblick über offene Standards im wissenschaftlichen Publizieren /Overview of open standards in scientific publishing
Die Publikationsinfrastruktur für Open-Access-Veröffentlichungen stellt sich durch die Vernetzung verschiedener OA-Publikationsworkflows mit verschiedensten beteiligten Systemen aktuell als sehr heterogen dar.ScienceOpen
Apparently ... there are different #coping #strategy to deal with unreliable #data. 😂⏱️ 😭
#science #openscience #opendata #openaccess
https://xkcd.com/2494/
