@kfitz Do you accept #PublicDomain works by US government employees? About a million would need to be archived in some place #Unpaywall can find.
https://archive.org/details/@academic_public_domain
10/ #Trump is doing damage on many fronts, not just the front of open and uncensored research. Are there projects to #crowdsource info on all of that damage? If so, the project on damage to research could be part of that larger project.
I welcome your thoughts.
1/ I'm doing what I can to track the actions and positions of the new #Trump admin on open and uncensored research. But it's far more than a one-person job. This is a post on what I'm doing — building up to a call to help find ways to #crowdsource the work.
#Censorship #DefendResearch #OAintheUSA, #OpenAccess #OpenScience #ScholComm
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New study: "Despite having a #repository mandate since 2016, #NSF #compliance rates remain low."
https://www.iastatedigitalpress.com/jlsc/article/id/17767/
Introduction: In 2022, the U.S. government released new guidelines for making publicly funded research open and available. For the National Science Foundation (NSF), these policies reinforce requirements in place since 2016 for supported research to be submitted to the Public Access Repository (PAR). Methods: To evaluate the public access compliance of research articles submitted to the NSF-PAR, this study searched for NSF-PAR records published between 2017 and 2021 from two research intensive institutions. Records were reviewed to determine whether the PAR held a deposited copy, as required by the 2016 policies, or provided a link out to publisher-held version(s). Results: A total of 841 unique records were identified, all with publicly accessible versions. Yet only 42% had a deposited PDF version available in the repository as required by the NSF 2016 Public Access Policy. The remaining 58% directed instead to publisher-held versions. In total, only 55% of record links labeled “Full Text Available” directed users to a publicly accessible version with a single click. Discussion: Records within PAR do not clearly direct users to the publicly accessible full text. In almost half of records, the most prominently displayed link directed users to a paywall version, even when a publicly available version existed. Records accessible only through the CHORUS (Clearing House for the Open Research of the United States) initiative were further obscured by requiring specialized navigation of publisher-owned sites. Conclusion: Despite having a repository mandate since 2016, NSF compliance rates remain low. Additional support and/or oversight is needed to address the additional requirements introduced under the 2022 memo.
@torrentfreak Nice. Do 558,466 PDF files next. 😇
Update. This announcement from #CHORUS and #MDPI spreads the same misinformation about the US federal #OpenAccess policies. https://www.mdpi.com/about/announcements/9226
"The [#NelsonMemo]…shifts library budgets towards supporting #OpenAccess publishing, necessitating reallocation of funds traditionally spent on subscriptions to support the funding of article processing charges (#APCs)."
It necessitates nothing of the kind. The policies require #GreenOA, not APC-based #GoldOA.
Kudos to @sparc for its excellent comments on the draft upgrade to the #NIH #OpenAccess policy.
https://sparcopen.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/NIH-Policy-RFI-SPARC-Response.pdf
"We encourage the agency to clearly communicate…that there is a no-cost compliance option…We…hear from our member institutions that many on their campuses mistakenly assume that compliance…requires the payment of a publishing fee to a journal."
"We recommend that NIH…explicitly authorize the public to fully #reuse publications resulting from its research."
Over at Bluesky, I'm responding to the false claim that complying with the new #NIH #OpenAccess policy will require authors to pay #APCs.
https://bsky.app/profile/dacrotty.bsky.social/post/3kw5rw5ooa32s
Note that my reply covers the other emerging federal-agency OA policies under the #NelsonMemo.
As the thread winds down, I might copy it here in Mastodon. Meantime you can follow it over there.
The National Institutes of Health (#NIH) is calling for public comments on its draft new #OpenAccess policy. The NIH has had a mandatory OA policy since 2008. The new policy will strengthen the old one and live up to the 2022 #NelsonMemo from the #Biden White House.
https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2024-10279.pdf
Comments are due by August 19, 2024.
The US Social Security Administration (#SSA) is calling for public comments on its draft #OpenAccess policy for living up to the #OSTPMemo (aka #NelsonMemo).
https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2024-10279.pdf
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