Category: Paywall Watch
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Checking Wellcome Trust funded Open Access articles
Yesterday I published a blog post calling for ongoing monitoring of ‘hybrid’ open access articles and academic publisher services in general. Today I want to share with you some highlights from my brief checks on 2 years worth of Wellcome Trust ‘open access’ article processing charge (APC) supported published research outputs. Source data Robert Kiley…
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Monitoring publishing services
In a recent series of posts I’ve become fascinated with how unnecessarily fragile the scholarly communications system seems to be in 2017: Oxford University Press have failed to preserve access to the scholarly record (23-01-2017) Documenting the many failures across OUP journals (24-01-2017) Comparing OUP to other publishers (25-01-2107) As a reminder, academics literally invented the internet,…
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Comparing OUP to other publishers
Any good scientist knows that one must have an adequate experimental control when trying to determine the significance of effects. Therefore, in order to test the significance of the 106 broken DOIs I reported at OUP yesterday, I created a comparable stratified ‘control’ sample of 21 journals NOT published by OUP that are indexed in…
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Documenting the many failures across OUP journals
Updated 2017-02-01: Mathematical equation rendering failures spotted at the journal ‘Molecular Biology & Evolution’ (MBE). Added to the lengthy list. In this post I shall try and summarise the different types of error that are occurring across Oxford University Press (OUP) journals at the moment. It appears OUP have changed their underlying platform software this…
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Oxford University Press have failed to preserve access to the scholarly record
This morning, a PhD student asked me if I could get access to copy of: “Bayes factors unmask highly variable information content, bias, and extreme influence in phylogenomic analyses” by Jeremy M Brown and Robert C Thomson which was first published online (ahead of print) on 20th December 2016. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syw101 The student urgently needs…