Ross MounceJun 17, 2024

Can someone show me what BePress Selected Works looks/looked like?

re: https://aus.social/@drrimmer/112629385876312384

I don't use Elsevier stuff so I cant say I have much knowledge of this crap, but I'm sure some institutions and disciplines probably bought into it...?

#BePress #Elsevier #Governance #LackOfControl #TheyDoWhatTheyWant #ScienceAsAPublicGood

Matthew Rimmer (@[email protected])

I had grave misgivings when Elsevier took over Bepress back in 2017. The company, I thought, lacked the values to be the proper steward of such important open access infrastructure. Such fears have certainly been realised with Elsevier's peremptory, capricious decision to end Bepress selected works. It is a terrible act of academic vandalism for Elsevier to suddenly dissolve the Bepress selected works commons. It will involve a huge amount of work for authors and institutions to migrate their repositories elsewhere. No doubt this decision will heighten the calls for a competition investigation into Elsevier and its monopolistic practices. #bepress #openaccess #competition #Elsevier > We would like to inform you that we will be sunsetting free SelectedWorks profiles on December 31, 2024. After this date, profiles and their contents will no longer be accessible. This message is not intended for those who have an institutional subscription – if your institution subscribes to SelectedWorks and you have questions, please contact your SelectedWorks administrator. We’ve recently made the strategic decision to focus more of our resources on supporting scholars via their institutions through the Digital Commons suite. If you would like to access your SelectedWorks profile, retrieve Author Dashboard data, etc., before December 31, you can do so at: https://works.bepress.com/profile/. If you do not remember your password, you can use the “Forgot your password?” link to reset it. For additional recommendations, please refer to our FAQ or contact [email protected] for assistance. We thank you and appreciate your support and use of SelectedWorks over the years. Sincerely, The Elsevier Digital Commons Team

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Ross MounceJun 11, 2024

Time to update the CLOCKSS? Why hasn't Heterocycles been released yet? https://rossmounce.co.uk/2024/06/11/time-to-update-the-clockss/

cc @chartgerink @Luke_Drury

#Heterocycles #CLOCKSS #Governance #Community #ScienceAsAPublicGood

Time to update the CLOCKSS? - Ross Mounce

The day today is Tuesday 11th June 2024. It marks at least 193 days now since the subscription access journal Heterocycles (e-ISSN: 1881-0942) was taken offline by its publisher. Published since 1973, it is a "key" journal in chemistry and contains over 17,000 articles which have been cited at least 164,000 times. The journal is preserved in the CLOCKSS archive. According to the CLOCKSS standard participating agreement, the CLOCKSS Board will release archived content if the archived content is determined in good faith by the Board "...to be unavailable from any publisher for at least six consecutive months." A calendar month may contain 28 to 31 calendar days, the average is 30.437. If we are generous and assume 30.437 days, then the "six months" referred to in CLOCKSS agreement translates into 182.622 calendar days. 193 days is greater than 182 days and so I am puzzled as to why CLOCKSS have chosen not to publicly release Heterocycles yet. Who are CLOCKSS serving and who's interests do they represent?

Ross Mounce