Ambitious open-access Plan S delayed to let research community adapt

Nature ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holly Else
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Research Community

scholarly journals Perspectives on Openness: Honouring Indigenous Ways of Knowing

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stacy Allison-Cassin ◽  
Sean Hillier ◽  
Alan Odjig Corbiere ◽  
Deborah McGregor ◽  
Joy Kirchner
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Panel Discussion ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Research Community ◽  
University Libraries ◽  
Cultural Expression ◽  
Indigenous Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Taking Action ◽  
Equity And Inclusion

York University Libraries Open Access Week 2020 panel discussion entitled, "Perspectives on Openness: Honouring Indigenous Ways of Knowing", moderated by Stacy Allison-Cassin, in conversation with Alan Ojiig Corbiere, Deborah McGregor, and Sean Hillier, that took place online on October 20, 2020. The theme for Open Access Week 2020 is Open With Purpose: Taking Action to Build Structural Equity and Inclusion. The basis of the discussion for the panel is the question, "In an era of open scholarship and research, how do we as a research community navigate and balance openness while respecting Indigenous knowledge and cultural expression?". This panel discussion offers the opportunity to encourage broader participation in conversations and actions around emerging scholarly communication issues, by centering on Indigenous approaches to open scholarship and research.

scholarly journals COVID-19 and the scientific publishing system: Growth, open access and scientific fields

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tina Nane ◽  
Nicolas Robinson-Garcia ◽  
Francois van Schalkwyk ◽  
Daniel Torres-Salinas
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Research Community ◽  
World Health ◽  
Crucial Aspect ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Scientific Outputs ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Scientific Fields ◽  
Large Corpus

We model the growth of scientific literature related to COVID-19 and forecast the expected growth from 1 June 2021. Considering the significant scientific and financial efforts made by the research community to find solutions to end the COVID-19 pandemic, an unprecedented volume of scientific outputs is being produced. This questions the capacity of scientists, politicians and citizens to maintain infrastructure, digest content and take scientifically informed decisions. A crucial aspect is to make predictions to prepare for such a large corpus of scientific literature. Here we base our predictions on the ARIMA and exponential smoothing models and use two different data sources: the Dimensions and World Health Organization COVID-19 databases. These two sources have the particularity of including in the metadata information on the date in which papers were indexed. We present global predictions, plus predictions in three specific settings: by type of access (Open Access), by NLM source (PubMed and PMC), and by domain-specific repository (SSRN and MedRxiv). We conclude by discussing our findings.

scholarly journals Born-Open Data for E-Prime

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denis Cousineau
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Data Repository ◽  
Data Frame ◽  
Science Practices ◽  
Data Practices ◽  
Data Files ◽  
Access Data

Born-Open Data experiments are encouraged for better open science practices. To be adopted, Born-Open data practices must be easy to implement. Herein, I introduce a package for E-Prime such that the data files are automatically saved on a GitHub repository. The BornOpenData package for E-Prime works seamlessly and performs the upload as soon as the experiment is finished so that there is no additional steps to perform beyond placing a package call within E-Prime. Because E-Prime files are not standard tab-separated files, I also provide an R function that retrieves the data directly from GitHub into a data frame ready to be analyzed. At this time, there are no standards as to what should constitute an adequate open-access data repository so I propose a few suggestions that any future Born-Open data system could follow for easier use by the research community.

scholarly journals Science in Crisis. Is Open Science the Solution?

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rima-Maria Rahal ◽  
Johanna Havemann
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Technological Changes

Since Open Science has become a recurring buzzword for recent meta-scientific developments, this article summarizes what these developments entail. What are the reasons for discussions about Open Access, Open Data and Open Peer Review? Which technological changes can we expect and which impact will they have on society and the research community?

scholarly journals Copyright: the immoveable barrier that open access advocates underestimated

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Poynder
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Communication System ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Hearts And Minds ◽  
Scholarly Communication System ◽  
Personal Case

In calling for research papers to be made freely available open access advocates promised that doing so would lead to a simpler, less costly, more democratic, and more effective scholarly communication system. To achieve their objectives they proposed two different ways of providing open access: green OA (self-archiving) and gold OA (open access publishing). However, while the OA movement has succeeded in persuading research institutions and funders of the merits of open access, it has failed to win the hearts and minds of most researchers. More importantly, it is not achieving its objectives. There are various reasons for this, but above all it is because OA advocates underestimated the extent to which copyright would subvert their cause. That is the argument I make in this book, and I include a personal case study that demonstrates the kind of problems copyright poses for open access. I also argue that in underestimating the extent to which copyright would be a barrier to their objectives, OA advocates have enabled legacy publishers to appropriate the movement for their own benefit, rather than for the benefit of the research community, and to pervert both the practice and the concept of open access.

scholarly journals matchms - processing and similarity evaluation of mass spectrometry data

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florian Huber ◽  
Stefan Verhoeven ◽  
Christiaan Meijer ◽  
Hanno Spreeuw ◽  
Efraín Manuel Villanueva Castilla ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mass Spectrometry ◽  
Open Access ◽  
High Throughput ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Significant Fraction ◽  
Mass Spectrometry Data ◽  
Joint Effort ◽  
Complex Datasets

SummaryMass spectrometry data is at the heart of numerable applications in the biomedical and life sciences. With growing use of high throughput techniques researchers need to analyse larger and more complex datasets. In particular through joint effort in the research community, fragmentation mass spectrometry datasets are growing in size and number. Platforms such as MassBank (Horai et al. 2010), GNPS (Wang et al. 2016) or MetaboLights (Haug et al. 2020) serve as an open-access hub for sharing of raw, processed, or annotated fragmentation mass spectrometry data (MS/MS). Without suitable tools, however, exploitation of such datasets remains overly challenging. In particular, large collected datasets contain data aquired using different instruments and measurement conditions, and can further contain a significant fraction of inconsistent, wrongly labeled, or incorrect metadata (annotations).

scholarly journals The Two Faces of Open Access

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 193-194
Author(s):  
Peter Black
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Universal Access ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Scientific Publishing ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
New Research ◽  
Global World ◽  
Published Research

The two faces of open access remain a point of contention in the global world of scientific publishing, and this carries over into the microcosm of urologic publishing. Many of us are part of the research community and all of us are consumers of new research findings. On both sides of the research enterprise—as providers and consumers—our interests are best met by broad dissemination and universal access to all published research. These are the underlying objectives of open access publishing.

scholarly journals Open Access Scholarly Publishing on the Competitive Market: University Management as Obstacle and Enabler

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 610-617
Author(s):  
Jenny Johannisson
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Scholarly Publishing ◽  
Competitive Market ◽  
Free Access ◽  
University Management ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
Access To Knowledge ◽  
Internationally Adopted

This article explores the relation between university management and open access scholarly publishing in Sweden. Open access is generally promoted in Swedish national research policy, referring to internationally adopted recommendations on free access to knowledge by researchers and citizens alike. In principle, the conditions for universities to not only promote but also actively contribute to open access by hosting open access scholarly journals could therefore be deemed adequate. In reality, however, many universities choose to adapt only to external systems of assessment and disregard internal demands from the research community. Since hosting open access scholarly journals is not favored by existing external systems of assessment, university management that does not also act on internal demands from the research community runs the risk of becoming an obstacle rather than an enabler of open access scholarly publishing.

scholarly journals Influence of open access journals on the research community in Journal Citation Reports

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-38
Author(s):  
Sang-Jun Kim ◽  
Kay Sook Park
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Journal Citation Reports ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
Continue Monitoring ◽  
The Web ◽  
Journal Citation

Purpose: The number of open access (OA) journals is rapidly increasing, and it is very important for librarians to understand the influence of OA journals on the research community. This study investigated the influence of the OA journals listed in Journal Citation Reports (JCR) based on various indicators.Methods: The data for this study were prepared by combining the JCR 2014 to 2019 journal list with the number of hybrid OA articles obtained by searching the Web of Science. Each journal’s JCR indicators and article processing charge were added. The influence of OA journals was compared according to OA type, whether they were published by large publishers, and whether they were top gold OA journals.Results: Gold OA journals remained weaker in terms of JCR indicators than hybrid journals. However, the top 20 gold OA journals, accounting for 27.0% of all OA articles in JCR 2014 to 2019, were superior in all JCR indicators. The top three OA publishers (MDPI, BioMed Central, and Public Library of Science) showed potential for development despite concerns regarding poor journals. The top three subscription publishers were very active in OA publishing, but their actual share of hybrid OA articles (Elsevier, 5.1%; Springer, 10.1%; and Wiley, 12.4% in JCR 2019) was still insufficient.Conclusion: Some gold OA journals showed high competitiveness and even the possibility for development beyond traditional journals. The transition of subscription journals to hybrid journals was found to be at the early stage. In light of these findings, librarians should continue monitoring the influence of OA journals.

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