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Published in Sci:Debug

In September, a journalistic article on Diamond Open Access (by Wolfgang Benedikt Schmal and myself) and a preprint on Transformative Open Access Agreements (by Laura Rothfritz, Wolfgang Benedikt Schmal, and myself) were published. On Diamond Open Access &

Published in Gemeinsamer Blog der DINI AGs

Alle? Na gut, nicht alle. Aber doch 14 tapfere Open-Access-Expert*innen fanden sich am frühen Morgen des letzten Tages der Open-Access-Tage 2024 ein, um gemeinsam den Antrag eines nordhessischen Repositoriums auf DINI-Zertifizierung kritisch zu begutachten. Wie kam es dazu?

Published in A blog by Ross Mounce
Author Ross Mounce

If you’re getting a sense of déjà vu from this blog post title it is probably because we’ve been here before e.g. in 2017, in 2016, in 2015, in 2014. These profitable ‘errors’ seem to keep occurring… Today, Elsevier sold me 48-hours of access to an article in the journal Computational Toxicology , with the title: “Ab initio chemical safety assessment: A workflow based on exposure considerations and non-animal methods“. The price?

Published in Gemeinsamer Blog der DINI AGs
Author Gastautorin(nen) und -autor(en)

Allianz-Studie bestätigt Investitionsbedarf für zukunftsfähige wissenschaftsgeleitete Open-Access-Infrastrukturen Die Allianz der Wissenschaftsorganisationen verfolgt eine Open-Access-Strategie, die sowohl Transformationsverträge (wie etwa DEAL) als auch nicht-kommerzielle Infrastrukturen für das wissenschaftliche Publizieren als Elemente zur Gestaltung der Open-Access-Transformation gleichermaßen unterstützt.

Published in Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week

Last time we talked about the evident hijacking of the PalArch Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. No-one seemed to know what had happened or how. I managed to track down Andre J. Veldmeijer, who was involved with the PalArch journals a while back. Based on my Facebook Messenger discussions with him, here’s what we now know: Andre is not involved any more with these journals.

Published in Gemeinsamer Blog der DINI AGs
Author Gastautorin(nen) und -autor(en)

Zu den wichtigsten Anforderungen an wissenschaftliches Publizieren – auch in digitaler Form – gehört, dass die Veröffentlichungen integer im Sinne von unverletzlich, datenstabil und konsistent sind.

Published in Open Access Blog Berlin

Das Open-Access-Büro hat den Open-Access-Bericht Berlin veröffentlicht. Er kann über die Community des OABB auf der Plattform PubPub abgerufen werden: https://oabb.pubpub.org/open-access-bericht-berlin. Open Research bedeutet, allen Interessierten einen offenen Zugang und eine umfassende Nachnutzbarkeit zu Forschungsergebnissen, -daten und dem gesamten Forschungsprozess zu ermöglichen.

Published in GigaBlog

Opening a Cabinet of Curiosities in Montreal Readers of this blog must know every summer the GigaScience Press team gathers at the ISMB (International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology) conference, where the great and good of computational biology gather for the largest bioinformatics conference of the year.

Published in Samuel Moore
Author Samuel Moore

Today Janneke Adema and I published a new article in the journal New Formations entitled ‘‘Just One Day of Unstructured Autonomous Time’: Supporting Editorial Labour for Ethical Publishing within the University’. The article will be available in our repositories but is also currently freely accessible via the New Formations site: https://journals.lwbooks.co.uk/newformations/vol-2023-issue-110/abstract-9909/ (although I’m not

Published in Samuel Moore
Author Samuel Moore

In the past week, three senior research strategy figures at the University of Oxford have called for removing the open access ‘burden’ from the rules for the next Research Excellence Framework (REF). For the past REF excercise, open access has been a requirement for all submitted journal articles and UKRI are also now consulting on plans to include books within the rules for the next exercise.