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Ross Mounce (rmounce@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Oct-2024 05:56:09 JST Ross Mounce
- OpenAlex
Great to hear that the Kompetenznetzwerk Bibliometrie [KB], which is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) plans to switch-over to only using @OpenAlex / Open Research Information by 2029
https://bibliometrie.info/en/
#OpenResearchInformation
#OpenAccess
#Bibliometrics #Scientometrics
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1. Outlook for Competence Network Bibliometrics Until end of 2024 * Open Data release covering German research Until end of 2025 * Improved automatic data curation routines Starting from 2026 @* Selective licensing: One proprietary database + OpenAlex (and friends) Starting from 2029 * Fully Open Data: Presumably only OpenAlex
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Ross Mounce (rmounce@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Oct-2024 02:04:34 JST Ross Mounce

I really feel sorry for internet users who happen to live in Italy. The situation there right now is appalling e.g. https://torrentfreak.com/google-drive-blackout-in-italy-after-another-major-anti-piracy-blunder-241020/
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  Google Drive Blackout in Italy After Another Major Anti-Piracy Blunder * TorrentFreak
  
  from @torrentfreak
  
  On Saturday evening Google Drive went dark for millions of Italian users after the service's domain name was added to Piracy Shield.
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Ross Mounce (rmounce@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Oct-2024 02:04:32 JST Ross Mounce
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- Mike Taylor 🦕
@mike I remember IT storming into my office about 12 mins after I starting using TOR Browser at work one day back in 2017. And that was the end of that...(!)

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Ross Mounce (rmounce@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Oct-2024 02:04:32 JST Ross Mounce
in reply to
- Mike Taylor 🦕
@mike I agree (for personal computing). But "work policies", including at Arcadia(!) blanket-ban TOR Browser, so it doesn't fully solve the problem.

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Ross Mounce (rmounce@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Feb-2024 09:00:21 JST Ross Mounce
- European Mathematical Society
🚨 SIGNIFICANT, POSITIVE ANNOUNCEMENT ALERT 🚨
The European Mathmatical Society, working with research libraries, have found a way to make ALL of the research journals they publish open access, without the need for author-side fees (no APCs!). Bravo @EuroMathSoc
https://ems.press/updates/2024-02-06-2024-s2o-announcement
#S2O #SubscribeToOpen #OpenAccess #NoAPCs
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  EMS Press | All journals open access in 2024 following successful Subscribe To Open round
  
  from Laura Simonite
  
  EMS Press publishes all journals open access in 2024, with a blend of S2O and Diamond models.
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Ross Mounce (rmounce@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Nov-2023 00:12:05 JST Ross Mounce

So much journal flipping to open access going on (!!)
* MIT Press journal flipping (shift+OPEN): https://mitpress.mit.edu/shiftopen/
* Open Library of Humanities: https://www.openlibhums.org/site/academics/journal-applications-to-join-the-olh/
* 50+ journals opening via S2O with MUSE in 2025: https://about.muse.jhu.edu/muse/s2o-participants
* 51 Annual Reviews journals (via S2O)
* 5 Biochemical Society journals in 2024 (via S2O)
* 2 AIP & 2 Edinburgh UP journals in 2024 (via S2O)
#OpenAccess #WithoutAPCs
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  Project MUSE
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Ross Mounce (rmounce@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Aug-2023 15:24:15 JST Ross Mounce

Quite enjoying this summer of discontent with large commercial academic publishers https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/another-wiley-journal-board-resigns-after-month-long-strike
#DiamondOA not #RipOffOA
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1. Title: Health journal latest to lose editorial board in publishing row All 44 members of Critical Public Health board resign over article processing charges and alleged push for minimum paper counts July 7, 2023 Title: Elsevier journal board follows through on mass resignation threat Editorial board of Design Studies quits alongside long-standing editor-in-chief, who blamed publisher’s ‘deeply exploitative’ approach to running the title July 15, 2023 Title: Another Wiley journal board resigns after month-long strike Departing editors accept that there’s ‘no shortage of academics’ to replace them as they call for ‘concerted action’ August 7, 2023
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  Another Wiley journal board resigns after month-long strike
  
  Departing editors accept that there’s ‘no shortage of academics’ to replace them as they call for ‘concerted action’
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Ross Mounce (rmounce@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-May-2023 05:50:20 JST Ross Mounce
- Open Access Tracking Project
BIG preprint just dropped:
"Wikipedia and open access"
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.13945
"We find that open-access articles are extensively and increasingly more cited in Wikipedia. What is more, they show a 15% higher likelihood of being cited in Wikipedia when compared to closed-access articles, after controlling for confounding factors. This open-access citation effect is particularly strong for articles with low citation counts, including recently published ones."
HT @oatp
#OpenAccess #Wikipedia
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  Wikipedia and open access
  
  Wikipedia is a well-known platform for disseminating knowledge, and scientific sources, such as journal articles, play a critical role in supporting its mission. The open access movement aims to make scientific knowledge openly available, and we might intuitively expect open access to help further Wikipedia's mission. However, the extent of this relationship remains largely unknown. To fill this gap, we analyze a large dataset of citations from Wikipedia and model the role of open access in Wikipedia's citation patterns. We find that open-access articles are extensively and increasingly more cited in Wikipedia. What is more, they show a 15% higher likelihood of being cited in Wikipedia when compared to closed-access articles, after controlling for confounding factors. This open-access citation effect is particularly strong for articles with low citation counts, including recently published ones. Our results show that open access plays a key role in the dissemination of scientific knowledge, including by providing Wikipedia editors timely access to novel results. These findings have important implications for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners in the field of information science and technology.
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Ross Mounce (rmounce@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Feb-2023 19:18:12 JST Ross Mounce

"Jumping over the paywall: Strategies and motivations for scholarly piracy and other alternatives" https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.05965
Paper accepted for publication in Information Development.
"more than 50% of the
participants have used a scholarly piracy site at least once" I'm surprised that figure isn't higher tbh!
#AcademicPublishing
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  Jumping over the paywall: Strategies and motivations for scholarly piracy and other alternatives
  
  Despite the advance of the Open Access (OA) movement, most scholarly production can only be accessed through a paywall. We conduct an international survey among researchers (N=3,304) to measure the willingness and motivations to use (or not use) scholarly piracy sites, and other alternatives to overcome a paywall such as paying with their own money, institutional loans, just reading the abstract, asking the corresponding author for a copy of the document, asking a colleague to get the document for them, or searching for an OA version of the paper. We also explore differences in terms of age, professional position, country income level, discipline, and commitment to OA. The results show that researchers most frequently look for OA versions of the documents. However, more than 50% of the participants have used a scholarly piracy site at least once. This is less common in high-income countries, and among older and better-established scholars. Regarding disciplines, such services were less used in Life & Health Sciences and Social Sciences. Those who have never used a pirate library highlighted ethical and legal objections or pointed out that they were not aware of the existence of such libraries.

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