References

Computer and information sciences

Generating Overlay blog posts

Published

On Monday the Rogue Scholar science blog archive launched a dedicated API. Today I am reporting on the first Jupyter notebook using that API to generate an overlay blog post. An <strong> overlay blog post </strong> applies the idea of an <strong> overlay journal </strong> to science blog posts, and the Rogue Scholar API – in combination with content that has an open license (CC-BY) – makes that easy.

Earth and related environmental sciences

Interview with Open Access Nigeria

Published in Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week

Last night, I did a Twitter interview with Open Access Nigeria (@OpenAccessNG). To make it easy to follow in real time, I created a list whose only members were me and OA Nigeria. But because Twitter lists posts in reverse order, and because each individual tweet is encumbered with so much chrome, it’s rather an awkward way to read a sustained argument. So here is a transcript of those tweets, only lightly edited. They are in bold;

Other humanities
German

23. bis 29. Oktober: International Open Access Week 2023 „Community over Commercialization“

Published in Open Access Blog Berlin
Author Georg Fischer

Auch 2023 findet (wie schon in den vergangenen Jahren) wieder die internationale Open Access Week statt. Vom 23. bis 29. Oktober gibt es diverse Veranstaltungen zum Thema „ Community over Commercialization“ . Das Open-Access-Büro Berlin stellt eine Übersicht von Aktionen an Berliner und Brandenburger Einrichtungen  im Rahmen der #OAWeek zusammen.

Social sciences

The number and proportion of freely available articles is growing; reaching 45% of the literature published in 2015

Earlier this year, the ImpactStory team of Heather Piwowar and Jason Priem launched Unpaywall, a new browser extension that helps users find free, easy-to-access research. Since officially launching in April, Unpaywall has been installed by over 85,000 users who have collectively made over 75 million requests.

Other humanities
German

Open Access in der Region Berlin-Brandenburg: Was wurde erreicht und wo geht es hin?

Published in Open Access Blog Berlin

Auftaktveranstaltung der Reihe „Quo vadis offene Wissenschaft“ am 24. Oktober 2023 Eine Nachlese zur Veranstaltung findet sich hier: https://doi.org/10.59350/yy5kk-3tz25 Termin: 24. Oktober 2023, 16:00–17:45 Uhr Ort: Hörsaal des Zuse Instituts Berlin, Takustraße 7, 14195 Berlin und Livestream Veranstaltende:

General Agricultural and Biological SciencesGeneral Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyGeneral MedicineGeneral Neuroscience

The state of OA: a large-scale analysis of the prevalence and impact of Open Access articles

Published in PeerJ
Authors Heather Piwowar, Jason Priem, Vincent Larivière, Juan Pablo Alperin, Lisa Matthias, Bree Norlander, Ashley Farley, Jevin West, Stefanie Haustein

Despite growing interest in Open Access (OA) to scholarly literature, there is an unmet need for large-scale, up-to-date, and reproducible studies assessing the prevalence and characteristics of OA. We address this need using oaDOI, an open online service that determines OA status for 67 million articles. We use three samples, each of 100,000 articles, to investigate OA in three populations: (1) all journal articles assigned a Crossref DOI, (2) recent journal articles indexed in Web of Science, and (3) articles viewed by users of Unpaywall, an open-source browser extension that lets users find OA articles using oaDOI. We estimate that at least 28% of the scholarly literature is OA (19M in total) and that this proportion is growing, driven particularly by growth in Gold and Hybrid. The most recent year analyzed (2015) also has the highest percentage of OA (45%). Because of this growth, and the fact that readers disproportionately access newer articles, we find that Unpaywall users encounter OA quite frequently: 47% of articles they view are OA. Notably, the most common mechanism for OA is not Gold, Green, or Hybrid OA, but rather an under-discussed category we dub Bronze: articles made free-to-read on the publisher website, without an explicit Open license. We also examine the citation impact of OA articles, corroborating the so-called open-access citation advantage: accounting for age and discipline, OA articles receive 18% more citations than average, an effect driven primarily by Green and Hybrid OA. We encourage further research using the free oaDOI service, as a way to inform OA policy and practice.