that OA advantage

Scientists created a rod for their backs when they allowed the journals in which their work is published to become…

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From HTML text, to downloads, to citations, a look at how researchers hone in on the papers they want.

Why Open Research?

An exploration of the issues of HEP Open Access publishing.

Data for the above chart is available for download: OASPA Members CC-BY Growth_Data to 2013 A total of 399,854 articles were published with the CC-BY license by members of OASPA during the period shown above, with 120,972 of those being published in 2013 alone. These numbers only include articles that were published in journals whose entire content... Read full article >

Preprint posting is the right thing to do for science and society. It enables us to share our results earlier, speeding up the pace of science. It also enables us to catch errors earlier, minimising the risk of alerting the world to our findings (through a high-impact publication) before the science is solid. Importantly, preprints ensure long-term open access to our results for scientists and for the public. Preprints can be rapidly posted for free on arXiv and bioRxiv, enabling instant…

When does a preprint become a publication?

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There is an interesting study out in the journal PNAS: “Evaluating big deal journal bundles“. The study details the disparity in negotiation skills between different US institutions when haggling with publishers about subscription pricing. For Science Magazine, John Bohannon of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Having first documented the large-scale demise of the impact factor as a predictor of quality research, George Lozano and team examined whether this pattern also applies to the handful of elite jou…

I joined Pratham Books in September 2007 for a six-month internship and it was soon obvious that I’d be there much longer. Their mission of “A Book in Every Child’s Hand”, the people and the organisation were fantastic and I ended up working there for five years. Currently, I am an advisor to Pratham Books. …

Data for the above chart can be downloaded here: OASPA Members CC-BY Growth A total of 252,418 articles were published with the CC-BY license during the period shown above. Data was supplied by the following members of OASPA as number of CC-BY articles per year since implementation of the license by that publisher: BioMed Central (2000-2012 which includes SpringerOpen... Read full article >

Here’s my submission for the House of Lords inquiry. I rather ran out of steam writing it so you’ll see it tails off towards the end. There’s probably loads of things I should men…