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Em Nunn Sep 5, 2023

Timothy Elfenbein Sep 5, 2023

“Striking a Balance between Openness and Free Access in Scholarly Infrastructure: DOAJ [Directory of Open Access Journals] at 20”

#OpenAccess #Infrastructure #Publishing

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2023/09/05/striking-a-balance-between-openness-and-free-access-in-scholarly-infrastructure-doaj-at-20/

Striking a balance between openness and free access in scholarly infrastructure – DOAJ at 20

Drawing on the findings of a sustainability review of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Joanna Ball and Andrea Chiarelli reflect on why funding this type of resource is a complex endeav…

Impact of Social Sciences

Em Nunn Apr 20, 2023

Gary Hall Apr 20, 2023

My post on 'Experimenting with Copyright Licences' consistent with a collaborative, radically relational approach is now up on COPIM (Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs) project website.

https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/combinatorial-books-documentation-copyright-licences-post6/release/1

It's part of the documentation for Ecological Rewriting, which is the first book coming out of the Combinatorial Books: Gathering Flowers/Open Humanities Press pilot.

http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/series/liquid-books/

It discusses both Creative Commons licenses and Collective Conditions for Re-Use (CC4r) by way of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's 2017 book Assembly.

Don't forget to register for the COPIM end-of project virtual conference, “Scaling Small: Community Owned Futures for Open Access Books”, taking place today and tomorrow!

📅 Thurs 20 April at 3.30pm-8.15pm (BST) - Fri 21 April 3pm-7pm (BST)
📢 Sign up here! https://scalingsmall.pubpub.org

#OAbooks #OpenAccess #OpenInfrastructure #theory #ExperimentalPublishing #publishing #scholarlypublishing #creativecommons

Experimenting with Copyright Licences

As part of the documentation for the first book coming out of the Combinatorial Books Pilot Project, we are discussing our rationale for chosing a CC-BY licence for this project as well as the limitations and potentials of this licence regarding more collaborative scholarship

Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM)

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Em Nunn Mar 9, 2023

@rmounce I'll have a look at your slides, thank you!

Em Nunn Mar 9, 2023

Open letter from US libraries in support of #openaccess but against transitional agreements because of the baked in issues of global inequity - interesting to see if this will get any take up here (transitional agreement central) https://library.harvard.edu/about/news/2023-03-03/iplc-letter-office-science-technology-policy

IPLC Letter to the Office of Science & Technology Policy

The following letter was sent to the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy on behalf of the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation.

Harvard Library

Em Nunn Jan 13, 2023

Aileen Fyfe Jan 13, 2023

If you're at a #Scottish #university, believe in #openaccess, and have a monograph nearly finished and not yet under contract, then...

18th January is the deadline for the first call for monographs from the new Scottish Universities Press @[email protected]

Monograph must be nearly completed (i.e. to be delivered later this year). An open call for other monographs will follow in February. See https://www.sup.ac.uk/

#openaccesspublishing
#histodons #victodons #bookhistodons #histsci

Scottish Universities Press

Em Nunn Dec 23, 2022

Eleonora Dagiene Dec 22, 2022

My first PhD article has just been published 🎉

Prestige of scholarly #book #publishers: An investigation into criteria, processes, and practices across countries (Finland, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, and Spain)
https://bit.ly/book-publisher-prestige

I am grateful for the exceptional support of my supervisor, @LudoWaltman His knowledge and exacting attention to this research project have improved this study in innumerable ways.

Such an excellent Christmas gift from #OxfordUniversityPress #books

Prestige of scholarly book publishers—An investigation into criteria, processes, and practices across countries

Abstract. Numerous national research assessment policies aim to promote ‘excellence’ and incentivize scholars to publish their research in the most prestigious

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Em Nunn Dec 21, 2022

@timelfen @petersuber I do generally agree with you about the "OA research should be published OA" as in the professor with a huge grant to pay APCs is not more moral than the ECR publishing in a paywalled special issue relevant to their subdiscipline, although if you have access to an IR it would be good to use it in that case

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Em Nunn Dec 21, 2022

@timelfen @petersuber I suppose you could also argue that if decisions are being made based on info in this report then people/orgs that can't afford it are being excluded by its cost, but yes, I was thinking more of what it highlights about OA as a market

Em Nunn Dec 21, 2022

@saggiotipo I think the NIH policy allows a 12 month embargo? But there are institutional RRS policies like Harvard that have been in place for ages I guess - don't know if they've run into any problems. I'm sure you're right that there will be lots of money made via APCs and TAs

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Em Nunn Dec 21, 2022

@timelfen is this reminder about the expensive report about OA publishing? Isn't it the choice they made to charge commercial orgs so much for these insights (which is totally understandable on their part) that is depressing for people with a different vision of OA, rather than simply 'isnt it ironic?'