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- Wikipedia:WikiProject Open Access - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Hot Type: Who Gets to See Published Research? - Research - The Chronicle of Higher Education
- What IJCP authors think about open access: exploring one possible future for publishing clinical research in a general and internal medicine journal
- PEER Economics Report (November 2011)
- PEER Economics Research: Final Report now available
| Wikipedia:WikiProject Open Access - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Posted: 23 Jan 2012 06:57 AM PST en.wikipedia.org "Welcome to the WikiProject Open Access. This project aims to enable Wikipedians to cooperate, organize, make suggestions and share ideas on the improvement of open access-related articles of Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to join in this endeavor as this project gives instructions for people of all backgrounds and skill levels to contribute meaningfully. If you have any questions, feel free to ask on our discussion page. If you would like to help, feel free to add yourself to the list of participants (no strings attached!), or just look over the Get involved section on this page. Feel free to contact others on this list, too. We hope you enjoy reading and improving Wikipedia's open access articles...." |
| Hot Type: Who Gets to See Published Research? - Research - The Chronicle of Higher Education Posted: 22 Jan 2012 08:32 AM PST chronicle.com "The battle over public access to federally financed research is heating up again. The basic question is this: When taxpayers help pay for scholarly research, should those taxpayers get to see the results in the form of free access to the resulting journal articles? Actions in Washington this month highlight how far from settled the question is, even among publishers. A major trade group, the Association of American Publishers, has thrown its weight behind proposed new legislative limits on requiring public access, while several of its members, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's press, have publicly disagreed with that position. The White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy just closed a period of public comment on public access to what it called "peer-reviewed scholarly publications resulting from federally funded research." ...The MIT Press was the first to say it didn't agree with the association's endorsement of the bill. Other academic presses, including California's, have said the same. The Nature Publishing Group and Digital Science issued a joint statement last week saying that they do not support the Research Works Act....The American Association for the Advancement of Science, which publishes the journal Science, also issued a statement saying it is not in favor of the bill...." |
| Posted: 22 Jan 2012 07:54 AM PST International Journal of Clinical Practice 66 (2), 116 (20 Dec 2012) "This editorial shares the questions that IJCP [International Journal of Clinical Practice] is, at the time of this publication, asking research authors about ‘open access’. It aims to prompt discussion about open access, and explains some of the challenges that switching to open access presents to a general and internal medicine journal like IJCP. It invites you to share your insights, using the approaches described below. It explains how you will be able to read the results of our research....At the time of this publication, and for another 6 months, we will ask all authors who submit papers to IJCP to answer two questions about open access (Table 1). The answers to these questions will tell us whether or not these authors believe the possible benefits of open access publishing might outweigh the costs....Do you agree or disagree with this statement: ‘I would still choose to submit my work to IJCP if IJCP in the future required all authors to pay an open access fee for publication and then made all its content open access and free to read online’ ...Do you agree or disagree with this statement: ‘I would not publish my work in any open access journal (including IJCP if IJCP required me to pay an open access fee) because the costs to me or my research funder would outweigh any benefits’ ..." |
| PEER Economics Report (November 2011) Posted: 22 Jan 2012 07:42 AM PST www.peerproject.eu "This study considers the effect of large-scale deposit on scholarly research publication and dissemination (sharing of research outputs), beginning with the analysis of publishers and institutions managing repositories and their sustainability. The study associates costs with specific activities, performed by key actors involved in research registration, certification, dissemination and digital management: authors, the scholarly community, editors, publishers, libraries, readers and funding agencies....The emergence of several high reputation OA journals, together with an array of journals started and managed with limited resources is an indication of the success of policies aimed at the opening of the competitive space....In parallel with OA journals, repositories, particularly subject based, emerged as opportunities for authors to increase effectiveness and efficiency of their reputation building by giving their research early visibility and by allowing researchers‟ communities to cooperate....Today, the distinctions between the three models (SB [subscription-based], OA or repositories) are blurred, although it is becoming clear that the success of OA journals and repositories – as is the case for SB journals – depends on the strategies of individual players, and not merely OA status....This study analyses 22 organizations involved with journal article publication and dissemination....[Among the results:] - The average cost of content certification per article published for the publishers considered is around 250 USD; the cost includes only salary costs and external fees paid for organizing and managing peer review....- The average cost of publishing (including metadata) ranges from 170 to over 400 USD per article, and is influenced by make/buy decisions and by journal size....- In order to make content accessible, it has to be managed via a digital platform allowing content management, storage and accessibility. Costs associated with digital platforms vary significantly, depending on whether the platform is proprietary or based on open source (OS) software....- The availability of OS publishing platforms allows for a drastic reduction of certification, publication and platform management costs, thus reducing barriers to the self-organization of groups of researchers to publish journals, and favouring the start up of new journals....- Management of repositories is cost effective from an operational point of view and in line with the mandatory functions of the institutions analysed. The use of OS software and the effort required to participate in collaborative projects allow for limited direct costs....Given these issues, OA and SB journals will have to become more active in seeking multiple revenue streams and in improving services, while repositories will need to make a stronger case to guarantee the flow of funding...." |
| PEER Economics Research: Final Report now available Posted: 22 Jan 2012 07:30 AM PST groups.google.com "PEER Economics Research: Final Report [is] now available....PEER (Publishing and the Ecology of European Research) is investigating the effects of the large-scale, systematic depositing of authors' final peer-reviewed manuscripts (so called Green Open Access or stage-two research output) on reader access, author visibility, and journals, as well as on the broader ecology of European research. The PEER Economics Research Team addressed this issue from an economic perspective and investigated the effect of large-scale deposit on scholarly research publication and dissemination (sharing of research outputs) beginning with the analysis of publishers and institutions managing repositories and their sustainability...." |
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