The paywalled chemistry journal 'Heterocycles' has been continuously offline for at least 206 days now...
The CLOCKSS board, on May 29th, voted to approve the "trigger event" to make Heterocycles publicly available under a Creative Commons license on June 17th.
But it's now June 24th...
Why is CLOCKSS sitting on this? 😕
Why is CLOCKSS apparently saying nothing about this? 🤔
@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
@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
Ross Mounce
Mike Taylor 🦕