[GOAL] Ceased and transferred publications and archiving: best practices and room for improvement

[Heather Morrison]

New post on Sustaining the Knowledge Commons, inspired by gathering data on OA 
APCs earlier this year - readers are invited to help in the process of figuring 
out better practices, particularly with regard to copyright and creative 
commons.

https://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2018/07/05/ceased-and-transferred-publications-and-archiving-best-practices-and-room-for-improvement/


Highlights


In the process of gathering APC data this spring, I noticed some good and some 
problematic practices with respect to journals that have ceased or transferred 
publisher.


There is no reason to be concerned about OA journals that do not last forever. 
Some scholarly journals publish continuously for an extended period of time, 
decades or even centuries. Others publish for a while and then stop. This is 
normal. A journal that is published largely due to the work of one or two 
editors may cease to publish when the editor(s) retire. Research fields evolve; 
not every specialized journal is needed as a publication venue in perpetuity. 
Journals transfer from one publisher to another for a variety of reasons. Now 
that there are over 11,000 fully open access journals (as listed in 
DOAJ), and some open access journals and publishers have 
been publishing for years or even decades, it is not surprising that some open 
access journals have ceased to publish new material.


The purpose of this post is to highlight some good practices when journals 
cease, some situations to avoid, and room for improvement in current practice. 
In brief, my advice is that when you cease to publish a journal, it is a good 
practice to continue to list the journal on your website, continue to provide 
access to content (archived on your website or another such as CLOCKSS, a 
LOCKKS network, or other archiving services such as national libraries that may 
be available to you), and link the reader interested in the journal to where 
the content can be found.


This is an area where even the best practices to date leave some room for 
improvement. CLOCKSS archiving is a great example of state-of-the-art but 
CLOCKSS’ statements and practice indicate some common misunderstandings about 
copyright and Creative Commons licenses. In brief, author copyright and CC 
licenses and journal-level CC licensing are not compatible. Third parties such 
as CLOCKSS should not add CC licenses as these are waivers of copyright. CC 
licenses may be useful tools for archives, however archiving requires archives; 
the licenses on their own are not sufficient for this purpose.


I have presented some solutions and suggestions to move forward below, and peer 
review and further suggestions are welcome.


For details and my preliminary list of suggestions, see the blogpost here:

https://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2018/07/05/ceased-and-transferred-publications-and-archiving-best-practices-and-room-for-improvement/

Comments are welcome on the blogppost or to this list.

best,


Heather Morrison

Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa

Professeur Agrégé, École des Sciences de l'Information, Université d'Ottawa

heather.morri...@uottawa.ca

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[GOAL] Dramatic Growth of Open Access June 30, 2018

[Heather Morrison]

The Dramatic Growth of Open Access for June 30, 2018 is now available:

https://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2018/07/dramatic-growth-of-open-access-june-2018.html

Highlights:

DOAJ recently surpassed a a milestone of 3 million articles searchable at the 
article level, and added a net of 7 titles per day in the past quarter.

Newcomer bioRxiv is really taking off.

38 of the limited number of indicators I track are growing at double or more 
the baseline rate of growth of scholarly journals and articles.

There are 2 indicators with negative growth; reader help in interpreting would 
be appreciated. A PubMed search for "cancer" with no date limit returns 1% less 
free full-text than March 31 (the same search with recent data limiters shows 
growth). Internet Archive images have grown quite substantially in the past 
year, but decreased by 18% this quarter.

best,
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Dramatic Growth of Open Access June 
2018
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Congratulations to DOAJ for recently surpassing a milestone of over 3 million 
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Heather Morrison

Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa

Professeur Agrégé, École des Sciences de l'Information, Université d'Ottawa

heather.morri...@uottawa.ca

https://uniweb.uottawa.ca/?lang=en#/members/706

sustainingknowledgecommons.org

poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca
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