Kay Cunningham's List: Scholarly Communication

Registry of Open Access Repository Material Archiving Policies

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"While dramatic growth continues in all aspects of open access, the story of the year and especially of the last quarter is a dramatic leap in open access mandate policies, particularly institutional and departmental policies."

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"an international association of about 100 scientific, technical, medical and scholarly publishers, collectively responsible for more than 60% of the global annual output of research articles, over half the active research journals and the publication of tens of thousands of print and electronic books, reference works and databases."

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'However, scientists asked to comment on Williamson's theory were taken back by it and surprised it made it into such a prestigious journal. For example, from insect paleontologist Conrad Labandeira of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.: "You're kidding!"'

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peer_review science PNAS scholarly_communication journals on 2009-10-01

'A new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciencee makes the bizarre and completely unsupported claim that the two stages of the butterfly life cycle: caterpillar and volant adult, result from a hybridization event, with the caterpillar resulting from a butterfly mistakingly mating with an onycophoran (velvet worm).'

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PNAS scholarly_communication peer_review science evolution on 2009-10-01

'The change has been in the works for months, and the idea has been discussed longer than that. But the announcement comes at a time when the journal is under intense criticism for an article published last month -- via the route in which academy members can organize their own peer review panels -- claiming that caterpillars and butterflies do not have the same evolutionary history. Rather than viewing the butterfly and caterpillar as two life stages, the article views them as evidence of some sort of lasting mistake from a butterfly-like being accidentally mating with a worm at some point in the distant past.'

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scholarly_communication PNAS peer_review science on 2009-10-01

'Scholars write articles to be read—the more access to their articles the better—so one might think that the open-access approach to publishing, in which articles are freely available online to all without interposition of an access fee, would be an attractive competitor to traditional subscription-based journal publishing.'

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'The compact for open-access publishing equity supports equity of the business models by committing each university to "the timely establishment of durable mechanisms for underwriting reasonable publication charges for articles written by its faculty and published in fee-based open-access journals and for which other institutions would not be expected to provide funds."'

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'On Monday, five leading universities announced a new "Compact for Open Access Publishing Equity" in which they have pledged to develop systems to pay open access journals for the articles they publish by the institutions' scholars. In doing so, the institutions are attempting to put to rest the idea that only older publication models (paid and/or print) can support rigorous peer review and quality assurance.
By embracing a new model, the institutions say, they hope to shift away from a system in which rising journal prices have frustrated librarians, and the lack of free access has frustrated those whose institutions can't afford many journals.'

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open_access scholarly_communication journals libraries universities on 2009-10-01 and saved by 6 people

tracks key data for open access resources (open access journals, archives, items in archives) on a quarterly basis. This open data version (CC-BY-NC-SA) is complemented by quarterly commentary and supplemented with specialized data.

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open_access scholarly_communication on 2009-10-01

'more than 4,000 fully open access, peer reviewed journals in DOAJ, growing by 2 titles per day; close to 1,500 open access repositories listed in OpenDOAR, adding a new repository every business day; over 30 million free publications through Scientific Commons, growing by more than 20 thousands items per day; more than 20% of the world's medical literature is freely available 2 years after publication, and close to 10% is freely available immediately on publication; 1 more journal decides to submit all or most content to PMC every business day, and growth of open access journals in PMC is one new journal every other business day.'

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open_access scholarly_communication scholarly_journals publication on 2009-10-01 and saved by 6 people

"The article in question, published online by PNAS in July, claims that caterpillars and butterflies do not have the same evolutionary history. Rather than viewing the butterfly and caterpillar as two life stages, the article views them as evidence of some sort of lasting mistake from a butterfly-like being accidentally mating with a worm at some point in the distant past.
Most evolutionary scientists disagree with this view, and many were shocked and angered that a prominent journal published the piece. One scientist went so far as to wonder whether this paper was the worst paper of the year, and Scientific American wondered if the PNAS had been taken over by the National Enquirer. And The Times Higher raised questions about whether Margulis -- "a bigwig" -- had ushered "nonsense" into a top journal."

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'But what accounts for the increase in the proportion of scholarly journals now in the hands of the commercial publishers? One reason widely acknowledged is that commercial publishers have been better at innovation, identifying (and perhaps creating) new markets, and launching new titles. When higher education expanded quickly in the 1960s and 1970s and more money became available for research, it was mostly the commercial publishers, not the scholarly societies, that moved quickly to meet the new demand for publishing outlets. A second reason is that commercial publishers have actively encouraged the scholarly societies and other not-for-profit entities to relinquish their journals or at least enter into publishing contracts with them. Lacking the technical expertise, the capital, and the economies-of-scale of the commercial publishers, many scholarly societies and others have found such offers congenial, particularly as journal delivery began to move online.'

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journals scholarly_communication scholarly_journals publishing academic_libraries on 2009-07-28

An index of current online research in philosophy. Also contains bibliographies, discussion forums, and advanced research tools for philosophers.

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"Once they were hosts to lively discussions about academic style and substance, but the time of scholarly e-mail lists has passed, meaningful posts slowing to a trickle as professors migrate to blogs, wikis, Twitter, and social networks like Facebook."

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listservs scholarly_communication higher_education blogs wikis social_networking on 2009-06-29 and saved by 4 people

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open_access digital_collections Google on 2009-06-27

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'Scholarly output rises; undergraduates are disengaged. “This is the real calamity of the research mandate -- 10,000 harried professors forced to labor on disregarded print, and 100,000 unwitting students missing out on rigorous face-to-face learning,” Ma

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"It’s Facebook, Linked-In, and del.icio.us all rolled into one. Or, as Fabian Kersten described it in the title of his talk at Online Information 2008, it’s about scientists harnessing social media to get their research done."

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social_networking social_bookmarking web_apps web_2.0 tools research researchers sciences on 2009-03-24

Blog about features and uses of 2collab

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