This post expands further on the assertion recently made by Danny Kingsley in her post on “Language co-option in the open space” that “words matter” when trying to have meaningful conversations about open access. Not only do words matter for creating common agreement, but words can also actively create biases, inform decision-making, and even thwart the visions of open publishing and infrastructure advocates most want to champion.

It’s 1 January 2021. Dozing in bed, floating in that warm & fuzzy limbo between dreams and reality, and that’s where it hits him. That lightbulb moment. (At last!) He sits bolt-upright in bed, punches the air and shouts: “You know what, honey, I’m gonna start a papermill!”. She snorts awake; reluctantly conscious. Oh no. Not again. Not another hare-brained scheme… “…and, by the end of next year, we’ll publish 20,000 fake papers!”.

In den USA ist eine Kartellklage gegen sechs Wissenschaftsverlage anhängig. Die Vorwürfe: Unlautere Geschäftspraktiken, unmäßig hohe Gewinne und Behinderung der Wissenschaft. In Deutschland wurden gegen drei Verlage Beschwerden wegen Datenschutzverstößen durch Datentracking eingereicht. Dazu zählt auch der Nomos-Verlag.

The Research and Teaching Group Information Management is conducting a survey on the topic of recording publication costs at research performing institutions in Germany.

(Blog post) “MIT libraries are thriving without Elsevier” by Cory Doctorow. This blog post is about the collective action problem of moving academic publishing away from the big corporate publishers that extract millions of dollars/year from scholarly research while contributing very little in return. It reports on an encouraging report by SPARC about MIT’s success in canceling their Elsevier subscriptions.

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?

Dear rOpenSci friends, it’s time for our monthly news roundup! You can read this post on our blog.Now let’s dive into the activity at and around rOpenSci!rOpenSci HQ Community call recording: Navigating the R ecosystem using R-universe Video and resources. Learn more about R-Universe and how you can use it to improve your R package development workflow.

I’m working through making a contribution to pandoc that adds first-class support for author role annotations using the Contribution Role Taxonomy (CRediT) and also outputs compliant Journal Publishing Tag Set (JATS) XML. This has lead me down a (losing) journey with learning the Haskell programming language, so I thought I would post a short note on a function I tried to understand.

Der BGH stellt klar: Eine Künstliche Intelligenz kann nicht als patentrechtliche Erfinderin gelten. Dennoch kann der Nutzer der KI die von ihr entwickelte Erfindung patentieren lassen. Im Urheberrecht ist eine KI ebenfalls nicht Urheberin eines Werks. Urheberrechte zu beanspruchen ist für den Nutzer dabei deutlich komplexer.

At work I’ve been using Quarto quite a bit for website and books for work projects.