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Working for #openaccess to research. If you follow me for #oa news, then also follow (bit.ly/o-a-t-p). I aim for comprehensive coverage there, not here.
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School superintendent to librarians (Granbury, Texas): If your political beliefs don't support his book-banning decision, "You better hide it. Here in this community, we're going to be conservative."
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Kudos to the American Veterinary Medical Association () for converting the American Journal of Veterinary Research to #openaccess, starting in June.
avma.org/blog/avma-jour
But why #paywall this article about the benefits of converting to OA?
doi.org/10.2460/ajvr.8
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New study: "Of all orthopaedic surgeons consulted, 69% knew of Sci-Hub & 66.7% used it on a regular basis [more younger than older]…89% [of users] would recommend it…Sci-Hub may have already changed how orthopaedic research works." (#paywalled)
thieme-connect.de/products/ejour
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The state archives of the Security Services in the Chernihiv region have been destroyed. These archives included all the crimes committed during the Soviet period.
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This proposal is still taking shape and far from law. But imagine forced interoperability on the largest messaging and social-media services. Imagine chipping away at the network effect allowing (e.g.) Facebook to hold unwilling users.
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Update. Finally the story: The wrapped Sumner statue is not Sumner-specific. "Two Cambridge artists are raising awareness around what is lost in war w/ an art installation [&] plan to continue the project w/ other statues, perhaps even in other cities."
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Tail wagging the dog. Or has Excel become the dog?
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Researchers: what is stopping you from submitting your work to diamond OA journals?
- Don’t know any good ones17.9%
- They are too low profile25%
- Not on approved list12.5%
- Actually I frequently do44.6%
56 votesFinal results
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University library decision-makers: why are you not already supporting the diamond OA journal ecosystem with the equivalent of 1% of your serials budget?
When you make a selection it cannot be changed
Whom do we bill?
Concerns about quality
Concerns about budget
No reason - will contact
12 votes3 days left
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New study: "Paying high APCs does not necessarily increase the impact of publications…Publishers with high impact are not the most expensive."
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"Idaho House Republicans killed the budget for the Idaho Commission for Libraries after debate over controversial materials in libraries."
eastidahonews.com/2022/03/idaho-
Imagine a library *without* "controversial" materials.
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Update. I just got the final warning: "Meta.org will sunset in one week" on March 31.
I still think would be smart to keep the tool and change the name. If it must kill the tool, at least make the code #opensource.
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New study from : "Only one in ten people in these countries [9 #LMICs] have meaningful connectivity [compared] with just under half who have basic internet access." #DigitalDivide
webfoundation.org/docs/2022/02/F
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Since Republicans are talking about "judicial philosophy" as if there were just one, let me re-up this.
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1/ #Originalism is not the only approach to the interpretation of written law. Interested in the respected alternatives?
[Selfie alert] Let me recommend _The Case of the Speluncean Explorers: Nine New Opinions_.
amazon.com/Case-Speluncea
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Update. "School book bans are soaring…The counted 330 incidents of book censorship in just the 3 months from Sept to Nov 2021 — marking the highest rate since the association began tracking the issue in 1990."
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New study: "Shifting students’ roles from consumers to curators & creators of OERs increased motivation, improved attitudes about learning, aided the achievement of course learning objectives, & supported the development of valuable skills."
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Update. I should have added that the signs taped to the statue call for peace and don't mention Sumner.
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"’s 31 member countries would only need to contribute an additional $200,000 each year to cover the cost of #openaccess to IEA data." h/t .
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2/ When I asked one of these offices to use "reply" instead, to create a thread, it said "our system does not allow us." Someone made a deliberate choice to reduce the usefulness of email. Why?
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1/ #Peeve alert. When I send email questions to certain offices, they send helpful answers. But the answers are always fresh messages, not replies to my original emails. Why?
Very hard to review the questions & answers together, discounting the value of their answers by half.
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Argument that the US govt could/should provide #openaccess to more info it obtains from private corporations than it does today & without violating trade-secret laws. Fascinating examples in which it did (and saved lives) and didn't (and cost lives).
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Update. Here's the Cambridge statute of Sumner today. Hard to parse. Is this a jab that he'd support Russia? A cheer that he'd support Ukraine? Just the repurposing of a public monument for current politics? FWIW he was a radical abolitionist who criticized Lincoln from the left.
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Excellent opportunities. Please pass the word.
(These are paid positions, $20/hour. Worth saying because so many similar positions are not.)
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Calling undergrads & grad students
Have any summer plans? ...because
BKC’s summer Research Assistant application is now open
Work with us on projects, programs, all the things!
Deadline is April 4. Application and details
cyber.harvard.edu/getinvolved/20
Have any summer plans? ...because
BKC’s summer Research Assistant application is now open
Work with us on projects, programs, all the things!
Deadline is April 4. Application and details
cyber.harvard.edu/getinvolved/202
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Kudos to for this project. When a university-based journal is defunct, the whole backfile should be made #openaccess through the institutional repository. There can be problems (e.g. w/ digitization, metadata, copyright) but they are all worth solving.
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The Digital Scholarship unit is pleased to announce that the archive of Union Seminary Quarterly Review (1939-2016) is now openly available in Academic Commons! Read more here: blogs.cul.columbia.edu/the-tinker/202
@columbialib @UnionSeminary
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If the EPA discontinues its online archive as planned, the public will lose access to "information about critical environmental issues, and past and present agency activities, policies, and priorities," according to the co-founder of @EnviroDGI act.ucsusa.org/3ilivgS
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2/ Apart from everything else (e.g. justifications for cutting off research & collaboration), this study uses WWI as a natural experiment showing that access to research is a critical part of research productivity.
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1/ In WWI the central powers lost their previous levels of access to research & collaboration from allied countries. Russia faces a similar loss today. This 2018 study found sophisticated ways to measure the central powers' loss of research productivity.
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Advertisers should welcome this fix. It would reduce the number of us who now respond to unwelcome ads by muting the advertisers, not just the words they use.
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Another good example of useful research (here, how psilocybin affects the brain) based on the reuse of existing data and code.
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3/ When fed agencies deny an FOAI request, and are sued for it, DOJ will not defend them unless they followed the new openness standard.
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2/ "In case of doubt, openness should prevail…Agencies should also continue to maximize their efforts to post more records online quickly and systematically in advance of any public request."
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1/ Kudos to the US DOJ () for expanding the #FOAI presumption of openness. Even "info that might technically fall within an exemption should not be withheld…unless the agency can identify a foreseeable harm or legal bar to disclosure."
justice.gov/ag/page/file/1
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Exactly. My take: "If one of your past articles is paywalled & a reader asks for a copy by email, send one. But [also] deposit a copy in an OA repository. That will help all who need access, not just the tiny subset willing to hunt you down, write, & ask."
poynder.blogspot.com/2017/12/realis
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Academics: You think this is friendly and inclusive but it's clubby and exclusive. Free papers get hundreds of downloads - how many emails do you get? Don't make excuses for failing to make your work freely available. It's easy to do and it should be considered part of your job.
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Update. A glimpse at the corporate money fighting against the Maryland law requiring "reasonable terms" when publishers license digital books to public libraries.
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Update. "The United States, European Union, India and South Africa have reached a consensus on key elements of a long-sought intellectual property waiver for COVID-19 vaccines."
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Update. "The Cape Town initiative is part of a new push by global health authorities, academics & philanthropists to…promote alternatives to “Big Pharma’s” business model, which relies on legally enforceable patent protections."
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