Connotea: Bookmarks matching tag oa.new (50 items) |
- Scientific Community to Elsevier: Drop Dead
- Bibliography on open access in Latin America and the Caribbean (2011)
- Another petition against the Research Works Act (The Petition Site)
- Berlin 10 OA Conference to be in Africa for the first time
- John Hilton III, "Freely ye have received, freely give" (Matthew 10:8) : how giving away religious digital books influences the print sales of those books
- Why I chose to decline an invitation to review by Elsevier
| Scientific Community to Elsevier: Drop Dead Posted: 29 Jan 2012 05:01 AM PST cscs.umich.edu "I have for years been refusing to publish in or referee for journals publisher by Elsevier; pretty much all of the commercial journal publishers are bad deals1, but they are outrageously worse than most. Since learning that Elsevier had a business line in putting out publications designed to look like peer-reviewed journals, and calling themselves journals, but actually full of paid-for BS, I have had a form letter I use for declining requests to referee, letting editors know about this, and inviting them to switch to a publisher which doesn't deliberately seek to profit by corrupting the process of scientific communication. I am thus extremely happy to learn from Michael Nielsen that Tim Gowers is organizing a general boycott of Elsevier, asking people to pledge not to contribute to its journals, referee for them, or do editorial work for them. You can sign up here, and I strongly encourage you to do so....(To head off the inevitable mis-understandings, I am not, today, calling for getting rid of journals as we know them. I am saying that Elsevier is ripping us off outrageously, that conventional journals can be published without ripping us off, and so we should not help Elsevier to rip us off.)" |
| Bibliography on open access in Latin America and the Caribbean (2011) Posted: 28 Jan 2012 02:59 PM PST www.unesco.org 300 bibliographic references on OA in Latin America and the Caribbean, with links to full-texts. Contribution of CLACSO for the UNESCO-GOAP Global Open Access Portal - Latin America and the Caribbean Section http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/portals-and-platforms/goap/access-by-region/latin-america-and-the-caribbean/ |
| Another petition against the Research Works Act (The Petition Site) Posted: 28 Jan 2012 02:29 PM PST |
| Berlin 10 OA Conference to be in Africa for the first time Posted: 28 Jan 2012 02:19 PM PST |
| Posted: 28 Jan 2012 11:39 AM PST search.lib.byu.edu A Master's Thesis at Brigham Young University, 2010. Abstract: Lack of access prevents many from benefiting from educational resources. Digital technologies now enable educational resources, such as books, to be openly available to those with access to the Internet. This study examined the financial viability of a religious publisher's putting free digital versions of eight of its books on the Internet. The total cost of putting these books online was $940.00. Over a 10-week period these books were downloaded 102,256 times and print sales of these books increased 26%. Comparisons with historical book sales and sales of comparable titles suggest a positive but modest connection between this increase and the online availability of the free books. This dissertation may be downloaded for free at http://etd.byu.edu. |
| Why I chose to decline an invitation to review by Elsevier Posted: 28 Jan 2012 07:53 AM PST Reciprocal Space, (28 Jan 2012) "[A]fter the first pulse of anger had passed, I found that I was still angry at Elsevier’s actions. And so, when a request to review a manuscript for an Elsevier journal appeared in my inbox, I opted to decline. I gave as the reason for my refusal the revelations about how the publisher was providing support for the Research Works Act. This triggered an email from Elsevier which, in the interests of further discussion, I reproduce in part below...." |
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