Notices by Ross Mounce (rmounce@mastodon.social)

"Most of the traffic from Wikipedia is directed to archive.org (882K clicks), hosting the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine..."

Reading:

Navigating Knowledge: Patterns and
Insights from Wikipedia Consumption

by Tiziano Piccardi & Robert West

https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.00939

"Google returns Wikipedia articles on the first page of results for 67%-85% of the queries, depending on the type of searched content..."

#WikiResearch

I have a 12.5 hour flight tomorrow that in other times would NOT be a 12.5 hour long flight. Thanks Russia *sarcasm*

#Holidays

"Under the One Nation One Subscription scheme, which kicks in on 1 January 2025, India will pay a total of about $715 million over 3 years to 30 global publishers, including some of the largest, such as Elsevier, Springer Nature, and Wiley"

https://www.science.org/content/article/india-takes-out-giant-nationwide-subscription-13-000-journals

What a waste of money. 🤮

#AcademicPublishing

Italian law continues to be bonkers... 🤯

https://communia-association.org/2024/11/25/a-case-as-sweet-and-sour-as-balsamic-vinegar/

#Italy #CulturalHeritage #COMMUNIA

Lovely to learn more about University of Ljubljana Press (Slovenia) https://journals.uni-lj.si/

It publishes 56 international scientific journals, most follow the diamond open access diamond model.

It is one of the largest academic publishers in Slovenia and Central Europe

#OpenAccess #DiamondOA #Slovenia

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

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/

@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...(!)

@mike I agree (for personal computing). But "work policies", including at Arcadia(!) blanket-ban TOR Browser, so it doesn't fully solve the problem.

🚨 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

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

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

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

"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