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  • I am supporting RIO Journal. I think you should too

    Today (2015-09-01), marks the public announcement of Research Ideas & Outcomes (RIO for short), a new open access journal for all disciplines that seeks to open-up the entire research cycle with some truly novel features I know what you might be thinking: Another open access journal? Really?  Myself, nor Daniel Mietchen simply wouldn’t be involved with…

  • I’m saying NO to Wiley

    [Update 2015-09-19: since writing this, I notice my open access article has now been unpaywalled at Wiley’s site. No-one from Wiley has reached out to me to explain how, why, or when this happened. No compensation has been offered, nor any apology. I note that all the other articles in the special section, which should also…

  • Advice for journal-publishing academic societies

    I read some sad news on Twitter recently. The Ecological Society of America has decided to publish its journals with Wiley: ESA journals move to new publishing partner, John Wiley & Sons. Tough decision, tho. Ecotrack will fade away & I can't say I will miss it. — Scott L Collins (@ESA_Prez2013) July 30, 2015…

  • Agreements between authors and publishers

    April Clyburne-Sherin asked an interesting question on the OpenCon Discussion List recently: I am an author on a manuscript that my lab wants to publish in a subscription journal that normally retains the copyright. The manuscript is a desirable one so they are “willing” (haha) to provide it “open access” (that was my stipulation to…

  • Springer admits wrongdoing in selling open access article

    Roughly ten days after I first blogged about this (see: Springer caught red-handed selling access to an Open Access article), Springer have now made a curious public statement acknowledging this debacle: Statement on Annals of Forest Science article Berlin, 6 May 2015 A number of tweets posted by Prof. Luis Apiolaza on 27 April, and by…

  • Wrongly paywalled articles: a recap of what we now know

    Last Friday, I genuinely thought Elsevier had illegally sold me an article that should have been open access. This post is to update you all on what we’ve found out since: The Scale of the Problem No one really knows how many articles are wrongly paywalled at all of Elsevier’s various different sales websites. So far,…