Mastodawn

#ClarenceThomas asked #Katyal if his argument wouldn’t also apply to #embargoes. Katyal said it did not, since #tariffs are ways of regulating revenue.
 “Embargoes stop the shipment, tariffs start the tax bill. ...Tariffs are constitutionally special because our founders feared revenue raising, unlike embargoes,” Katyal said. “You know, there was no ‘Boston Embargo Party,’ but there was certainly a Boston Tea Party.”

#SCOTUS #law #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #AbuseOfPower #Trump #economy

petersuber Sep 13, 2025

New study: "Open access publishing: is urology ready? A survey of authors, readers, and editorial board’s knowledge, impressions and satisfaction."
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00345-025-05928-3
(#paywalled)

Not a good way to run a survey or report the results.

* The results are paywalled.
* The article does not include the survey questions.
* The survey defines #GoldOA, #GreenOA, #DiamondOA, and #HybridOA. But the article only reports the attitudes toward APC-based gold OA. No surprise, they're negative. Yet disdain for #APCs only strengthens the reason to ask about green and diamond OA. If the survey did ask, then what are the answers? If it didn't ask, then why not?
* The survey gives a false definition of green OA, saying that it's always embargoed. That's especially odd since under current US federal agency policies, it's never embargoed.

#Embargoes #ScholComm

Open access publishing: is urology ready? A survey of authors, readers, and editorial board’s knowledge, impressions and satisfaction - World Journal of Urology

Purpose To report the level of knowledge, impressions, and satisfaction of Urology readers, authors, and editorial boards regarding Open Access (OA) publishing in the field of Urology and to determine their satisfaction with the current OA models. Methods We developed an online, five-section cross-sectional survey including 23 questions. To recruit participants, we used mixed methods to obtain responses based on a simple random sampling and convenience sampling. Herein we present descriptive outcomes of the responses. Results 157 participants from 21 countries responded to the survey between May 2023 and October 2024. The majority of respondents (80.2%) reported having “Acceptable” to “Excellent” knowledge regarding OA publishing. However, of those that responded they were familiar with the concepts, only a minority knew the definitions of Gold, Green, Diamond, and Hybrid OA publishing models. Of all respondents, 49.7% reported having a “Positive” to “Strongly positive” impressions toward OA publishing, whereas 16.6% had “Negative” to “Strongly negative” impressions. Although a majority agreed that OA publishing can offer several advantages, 40.8% thought that the quality of peer-review is lower for OA journals compared to traditional publishing models. The vast majority (82.2%) agreed that articles processing charge (APC) can be overly burdensome for authors. Members of a Urology journal editorial board are more incline to not publish in an OA journal. Conclusion Results from this anonymous, international survey among urologists, show high awareness of OA publishing with low knowledge regarding details. Participants are pessimistic regarding the quality of OA journals and peer-review.

SpringerLink

Hacker News Jun 25, 2025

Libxml2's "no security embargoes" policy

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1025971/73f269ad3695186d/

#HackerNews #Libxml2 #no #security #embargoes #policy #security #libxml2 #open-source #software #development #cybersecurity

Libxml2's 'no security embargoes' policy

Libxml2, an XML parser and toolkit, is an almost perfect example of the successes and failures [...]

LWN.net

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petersuber Jun 25, 2025

#SPARC has released its own new info on the new #NIH #OpenAccess policy.
https://sparcopen.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Update-to-NIH-PA-Policy-Deadline.pdf

Excerpt:

<blockquote>
● The Policy requires immediate public access to articles -- #embargoes are no longer allowed.
● NIH reiterates authors do not have to pay a fee to comply with the Policy.
● The Policy applies to manuscripts accepted for publication on or after July 1, 2025. This means the Policy will apply to existing grants if an article is accepted on or after that date.
● The Policy requires that final peer-reviewed manuscripts be submitted to #PubMedCentral (#PMC) upon acceptance to be made publicly available immediately upon publication.
● The Policy requires that grantees explicitly grant the NIH the right to make the manuscript available in PMC without an embargo.
● The Policy does not explicitly grant full reuse rights of the manuscript to the public.
</blockquote>

#Copyright #Embargoes #GreenOA #Medicine #NelsonMemo #OSTP

petersuber Jun 25, 2025

The #NIH just released new info on its zero-embargo #OpenAccess policy, which takes effect next week (July 1).
https://grants.nih.gov/policy-and-compliance/policy-topics/public-access

This includes:

* a new overview of the policy itself
https://grants.nih.gov/policy-and-compliance/policy-topics/public-access/nih-public-access-policy-overview

* a new overview of the methods for submitting papers to comply with the policy
https://grants.nih.gov/policy-and-compliance/policy-topics/public-access/submitting-pubmed-central

* and a new FAQ.
https://grants.nih.gov/faqs#/public-access-policy

#Embargoes #GreenOA #Medicine #NelsonMemo #PubMedCentral #OSTP

Dirk Ritter Mar 7, 2025

A few notes on #tariffs:

Usually, they are very specific, yet even if the stated goals aren't achieved, they tend to stick, because lifting those would mean tax cuts.
Example: EU tariffs on cameras even though EU camera production has long since been lost to Asia.

Sudden jumps, like putting 25% tariffs up over night, are more accurately described as #embargoes, which are always used as a weapon against opponents.

petersuber Feb 26, 2025

Kudos to #Canada's three major research-funding agencies for their draft all-green, zero-embargo, rights-retention #OpenAccess policy.
https://science.gc.ca/site/science/en/interagency-research-funding/policies-and-guidelines/open-access/draft-revised-tri-agency-open-access-policy-publications

The agencies are the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (#CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (#NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (#SSHRC) — sometimes known collectively as the #TriAgency.

#Copyright #Embargoes #GreenOA #OpenLicenses #RightsRetention

Draft, Revised Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications

Preamble The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) ("the Agencies") promote and support research, research training, knowledge mobilization and innovation within Canada.

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petersuber Dec 19, 2024

Update. Also see:

* NIH Plan to Increase Findability and Transparency of Research Results Through the Use of Metadata and Persistent Identifiers
https://osp.od.nih.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Metadata_PIDs.12.16.2024_PDF.pdf

* NIH Issues New Policy to Speed Access to Agency-Funded Research Results
https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/who-we-are/nih-director/statements/nih-issues-new-policy-speed-access-agency-funded-research-results

* Introducing the New NIH Public Access Policy
https://osp.od.nih.gov/introducing-the-new-nih-public-access-policy/

h/t #GaryPrice

#Discoverability #Embargoes #Metadata #NelsonMemo #NIH #OpenAccess #OSTP #PIDs

petersuber Jun 27, 2024

The American Chemical Society (#ACS) is proud of a new business model for #hybrid #journals. Payor institutions get "full reading access" & their authors get the right make their ACS articles #GreenOA without #embargoes.
https://www.acs.org/pressroom/newsreleases/2024/june/acs-publications-and-french-consortium-together-support-open-access-publishing.html

PS: This is not a good deal. It asks universities to pay for the right to ensure unembargoed green OA. But rights-retaining #authors & #universities already have this right. Another argument for #RightsRetention.

#Copyright #ScholComm

ACS Publications and French consortium together support open access publishing - American Chemical Society

ACS Publications has signed a memorandum of understanding with Couperin laying the groundwork for an agreement covering ACS’ portfolio of hybrid journals, which combine open access and subscription-access content.

American Chemical Society

v_i_o_l_a Jun 11, 2024

""Publishing Embargoes and Versions of Preprints: Impact on the Dissemination of Information" @ Open Information Science: https://doi.org/10.1515/opis-2024-0002
#OpenAccess #copyright #preprints #embargoes

Publishing Embargoes and Versions of Preprints: Impact on the Dissemination of Information

This commentary abridges three closely related aspects of scholarly publishing, copyright transfer to publishers in the subscription-based model, posting of author-accepted versions to preprint servers, and publishing embargoes, to appreciate how each might impact the dissemination of information. We found no direct evidence showing that either copyright transfer or the posting of early (i.e., author-submitted or journal-accepted) versions of works to preprint servers stifle academics’ ability to share their papers openly. However, some key structural issues and incompatibilities in policies may dampen the wider adoption of preprints despite their widely promoted advantages for scientists. We found a 6- to 36-month embargo period in place by 10 of the world’s top largest publishers, depending on the version of the record. These embargoes may constrain the dissemination of knowledge.

De Gruyter