Mastodawn

@rmounce No interesting responses from the authors you contacted?

@rmounce What about contacting universities and granting bodies that paid APCs for hybrid articles in this journal?

@mike yes, this is a real point of leverage - I think the list of research libraries that pay ($$$) CLOCKSS to do what CLOCKSS ought to do are the "stakeholders" (I don't like this term) with some leverage here.

I can jump up and down and send as many emails as I like to the CLOCKSS leadership team but it's clear that CLOCKSS don't feel they need to be accountable to me 🤷‍♂️

@rmounce Solid point.

@mike yeah I got some good responses from authors, with some really interesting additional tidbits I didn't previously know e.g. many of the indexing services including WoS and CAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) didn't even index the last published issue in 2023 so that issue is SUPER/extra invisible

...but despite author testimonials that they are unhappy and "sad" about the situation, such testimonials alone don't create action. I think a journalist needs to take this up

@rmounce Or it needs one (or more) of the "sad" authors to contact CLOCKSS directly.

@mike CLOCKSS would respond to “sad” authors with their template language:

“... the trigger process is underway. This is a cross-organisational process to ensure that the content and metadata are correct and that this becomes available and discoverable. You are on our list of people to notify as soon as the content from Heterocycles becomes available.”

(template already being deployed on anyone who asks) 🙃

@mike by the year 2048 i might well get an email from CLOCKSS saying that Heterocycles is available...

I think that being ‘economical with the truth’ is a skill being leveraged quite hard at CLOCKSS right now

@rmounce Depends where the author falls on the sad---angry continuum!

Nemo_bis 🌈Jun 24, 2024

@rmounce Did those authors typically manage to archive their work on an institutional repository? Do any of them need help depositing to Zenodo? As far as I can tell, #Dissemin would work (if they have some PDF).
Example for doi:10.3987/com-23-14891 from https://fatcat.wiki/container/qzgbkg535nfnxdf6axotjixoim/browse?year=2023&volume=106&issue=12: https://dissem.in/p/150477051/diastereoselective-synthesis-of-28-dioxabicyclo331nonane-derivatives-via-i2-mediated-cascade-reactions/ .

#OpenAccess #GreenOA