How can we get beyond the Transformative Agreements: a Swedish perspective

https://redc.revistas.csic.es/index.php/redc/article/view/1646/2412

#openaccess #openscience

My ex-colleague @pcastromartin has published this blog post about the chart topping Open Access performance of Scotland's universities. Worth a read!

Strong performance of Scottish HEIs in 2023 #CWTS #Leiden Open Ranking https://openresearchscotland.wordpress.com/2024/02/06/strong-performance-of-scottish-heis-in-2023-cwts-leiden-open-ranking/ #OpenAccess #OpenResearch #OpenAlex #OpenScience #bibliometrics

"We found that [data] repository shutdown was not rare: 6.2% of all repositories listed in re3data were shut down..."

....which is why #repositories -- any #repository -- should not be established by an organization unless there is institutional acceptance that its establishment is forever, essentially. It is commitment to the scholarly record. I dread to think what data suggest about publication repositories. 🫣
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2024/01/31/do-disappearing-data-repositories-pose-a-threat-to-open-science-and-the-scholarly-record/ #OpenData #OpenResearch #scholarship #data

In the light of recent publications, it doesn't hurt to go over a few simple calculations yet again:

"even when considering all services we don’t currently pay for, the true cost per paper would not exceed $100"

https://blog.joss.theoj.org/2019/06/cost-models-for-running-an-online-open-journal

This fits very well with what we have calculated:

https://f1000research.com/articles/10-20/v2
and of course many others as well (references in our paper). Remember, if someone tells you academic publishing costs more, they're not doing it right

#openscience #academicchatter

CNRS has unsubscribed from Scopus publications database https://www.cnrs.fr/en/cnrsinfo/cnrs-has-unsubscribed-scopus-publications-database

"Unsubscribing from #Scopus bibliographic database is first stage of process of freeing #CNRS from commercial databases and gradually switching to free bibliographic tools"

"#WOS subscription will be maintained during this transition"

"CNRS's decision is in line with international vision underpinning announcement by @cwts that it is launching transparent reproducible version of its world ranking of universities"