Category: Open Access
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Science Europe denounces ‘hybrid’ Open Access [another repost]
This is a re-post, originally first blogged by myself on the Open Knowledge Foundation main blog here Recently Science Europe published a clear and concise position statement titled: Principles on the Transition to Open Access to Research Publications This is an extremely timely & important document that clarifies what governments and research funders should expect…
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Panton Fellowship wrap-up [OKF repost]
My final repost today (edited) from the Open Knowledge Foundation blog. It’s a little old, originally posted on the 16th of April, 2013 but I think it definitely deserves to be here on my blog as a record of my activities… So… it’s over. For the past twelve months I was immensely proud to be one…
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RCUK policy non-compliant journals
So, the new RCUK open access policy is now in play… and guess what – there’s plenty of journals out there that are not accommodating it at the moment. Perhaps this is just out of ignorance? Perhaps this is an area where a little nudge from interested parties e.g. open access advocates, RCUK-funded academics, and…
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Worldwide Dissemination
In the last 2 weeks I’ve given talks in Brussels & Amsterdam. The first one was given during a European Commission (Brussels) working group meeting on Text & Data Mining. There were perhaps only ~30 people in the room for that. The second presentation was given just a few days ago at Beyond The PDF…
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Wiley aren’t mentioning self-archiving… funny that
I just got forwarded this email. (Names, Dates & email addresses have been removed or replaced). I’m extremely concerned about this and thus am republishing this email to draw attention to it. Wiley are really pushing their expensive hybrid Open Access option ‘Online Open‘ that does not represent value for money in my opinion –…
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Further info about the licences that free/open access journals use
I’ve been quoted in a Nature News story about Open Access journal licencing. I’m a staunch defender of the use of the Creative Commons Attribution licence, as it’s a good licence for academic research. Here’s just some of what I sent Richard Van Noorden (Nature News) by email. I don’t blame him for only using…