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
@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/ .
@nemobis no, sadly.
Very low numbers of the 17,000+ articles in Heterocycles have been self-archived in a repository.
Ross Mounce
Mike Taylor 🦕
Nemo_bis 🌈