Alexandra Casey, The Daily Californian; Rumored executive order would change landscape of UC subscription partnerships
"Prominent Nobel laureate and chief scientific officer of New England
Biolabs Rich Roberts has no online access to a paper he co-authored
because his institution lacks a subscription to academic journal Nature
Microbiology.
Roberts is one of 21 American Nobel laureates who submitted an open
letter to President Donald Trump on Monday urging him to approve a
rumored plan to make federally funded research free of cost and
immediately accessible after publication. UC Berkeley’s Randy Schekman,
who founded eLife — an open access scientific journal — led the Nobel
laureates in their letter...
“This would effectively nationalize the valuable American
intellectual property that we produce and force us to give it away to
the rest of the world for free,” according to the letter from the
publishers. “This risks reducing exports and negating many of the
intellectual property protections the Administration has negotiated with
our trading partners.”
The letter added that the cost shift could place an “additional
burden” on taxpayers and undermine both the marketplace and American
innovation."
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Showing posts with label journal costs. Show all posts
Thursday, January 30, 2020
Libraries will champion an open future for scholarship; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 29, 2020
Keith Webster, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette;
"All of us who work in academic libraries here in Pittsburgh and around the world aspire to improve the quality of science and scholarship. It’s increasingly clear that this can best be done through the open exchange of ideas and data, which can accelerate the pace and reach of scientific discovery.
The desire of researchers and their funders to make their research freely available to all is evident. As a result, the acceptance of open access publishing and article sharing services has soared in recent years. Meanwhile, the rapidly escalating journal costs experienced by libraries over the past 25 years are agreed to be unsustainable. It is against this backdrop that Carnegie Mellon University is establishing open access agreements with top journal publishers, with a special focus on the the fields of science and computing."
Libraries will champion an open future for scholarship
Open access deals help make knowledge and education accessible to the working class
"All of us who work in academic libraries here in Pittsburgh and around the world aspire to improve the quality of science and scholarship. It’s increasingly clear that this can best be done through the open exchange of ideas and data, which can accelerate the pace and reach of scientific discovery.
The desire of researchers and their funders to make their research freely available to all is evident. As a result, the acceptance of open access publishing and article sharing services has soared in recent years. Meanwhile, the rapidly escalating journal costs experienced by libraries over the past 25 years are agreed to be unsustainable. It is against this backdrop that Carnegie Mellon University is establishing open access agreements with top journal publishers, with a special focus on the the fields of science and computing."
Wednesday, August 9, 2017
Soon, nobody will read academic journals illegally, because the studies worth reading will be free; Quartz, August 9, 2017
Akshat Rathi, Quartz; Soon, nobody will read academic journals illegally, because the studies worth reading will be free
"Now a new study has found that nearly half of all academic articles that users want to read are already freely available. These studies may or may not have been published in an open-access journal, but there is a legally free version available for a reader to download...
The finding is backed by two trends. First, academics are increasingly publishing in open-access journals. Looking at a random sample of studies published in 2015, about 45% were published in such journals. Second, studies published in open-access journals receive more citations than average. It’s not clear whether that’s to do with the quality of research or easy access, but it’s a positive sign for a more open-accessed internet."
"Now a new study has found that nearly half of all academic articles that users want to read are already freely available. These studies may or may not have been published in an open-access journal, but there is a legally free version available for a reader to download...
The finding is backed by two trends. First, academics are increasingly publishing in open-access journals. Looking at a random sample of studies published in 2015, about 45% were published in such journals. Second, studies published in open-access journals receive more citations than average. It’s not clear whether that’s to do with the quality of research or easy access, but it’s a positive sign for a more open-accessed internet."
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