[GOAL] Fundraiser : Help young OA and open science advocates from Haiti go to the World Social Forum
Hello everyone, I am the leader of the SOHA research-action project whose main objective is to introduce open science and open access to Haiti and Francophone Africa. SOHA is part of OCSDnet : http://ocsdnet.org/projects/universite-laval/. For nearly 18 months, a huge work has been done. One great outcome is the emergence of young open access leaders in these countries. You can read their blog posts (in French) at http://www.projetsoha.org/?page_id=60. In Haiti in particular, as a result of our March symposium on "open science and open access as a tool for sustainable development", a group of undergraduate students enrolled in the State University of Haiti have decided to establish an association promoting open access and cognitive justice. During the last three months, they made radio broadcasts, published blog posts and organized two training workshops, especially in northern Haiti where they gathered a hundred students! I organized with and for them two sessions on Open science and cognitive justice at the next World Social Forum to be held in Montreal (August). They will present their work, their strategy and their arguments. Our hope is that they will thus affect students and researchers of the Global South who will also be there. The Association Science and Common Good that I chair will fund in solidarity their accommodation and meals, but we decided to do a fundraiser to pay for their air tickets and visa fees. I therefore appeal to your generosity to make that trip real. It will both reward these students for their so effective engagement for open science, it will boost their energy and it may radiate into the network of the World Social Forum. Please read the page that tells their story in more details. * On our website, you'll find the paypal button that allows you to make your donation at limited administrative costs for us.http://www.scienceetbiencommun.org/?q=node/116 * But if you prefer, we have also created a crowdfunding project on Generosity/Indiegogo : https://www.generosity.com/education-fundraising/help-young-oa-advocates-from-haiti -go-to-the-wsf on Indiegogo. Counting on your commitment and generosity! Florence Piron responsible for project SOHA http://projetsoha.org Laval University ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
Re: [GOAL] BLOG: Press embargoes – a threat from the shadows
You could tell these researchers : - That ambition and competition are not the only values in life - That being terrified of displeasing abusive commercial journals is very dangerous for their (mental) health - they could look at what happens elsewhere in the world they share with other human beings - it would surely appease their terror - to have a good read of Discourse on Voluntary Servitude (1549), in which the 18 year-old author explains that a tyran lives only because subalterns recognize him as tyrant : Obviously there is no need of fighting to overcome this single tyrant, for he is automatically defeated if the country refuses consent to its own enslavement: it is not necessary to deprive him of anything, but simply to give him nothing; there is no need that the country make an effort to do anything for itself provided it does nothing against itself. It is therefore the inhabitants themselves who permit, or, rather, bring about, their own subjection, since by ceasing to submit they would put an end to their servitude. http://www.constitution.org/la_boetie/serv_vol.htm - To re-read what Merton wrote in 1942 about communism in science : « The substantive findings of science are a product of social collaboration and are assigned to the community. They are a common heritage in which the equity of the individual producer is severely limited... rather than exclusive ownership of the discoverer and their heirs. » and ponder over the priority between CVs and knowledge sharing - To re-read article 27 of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights : « (1) Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits. (2) Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author. » and try to imagine what it means: - that our world has decided there is a collective right to science in which scientists have a big role to play in it (by freely sharing their work) - that researchers have a right to be protected against publishers that terrify them. Florence Piron (Université Laval), totally fed-up Le 2016-05-20 à 06:54, Danny Kingsley a écrit : Hello all, Our latest blog on Unlocking Research is looking at the issue of press embargoes. Below is a teaser from "Press embargoes – a threat from the shadows" - https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=653 Something has been rumbling under the surface in the repository world recently, at least in the UK. Over the past six months or so, the Office of Scholarly Communication has had some fraught conversations with researchers who are terrified that their papers will be 'pulled' from publication by the journal. The reason is because some information about the upcoming paper is publicly available. Our researchers are concerned that having the metadata about an article available means that publishers will consider this a breach of embargo and will pull the publication. Note that the Author’s Accepted Manuscript of the article itself (or the data files, in case of datasets) is locked down and the information about the volume, issue and pages are missing as the work is not yet published. The researchers are worried because there is a need for publication in high profile journals such as/Nature/for their careers and if a work was to be pulled from publication this would have huge implications for them. This has caused a challenge for us – clearly we do not wish to threaten our researchers’ publication prospects, but we are also bound by the requirements of the HEFCE policy. * Comments welcomed. Danny -- Dr Danny Kingsley Head, Office of Scholarly Communication Cambridge University Library West Road, Cambridge CB39DR P: +44 (0) 1223 747 437 M: +44 (0) 7711 500 564 E:da...@cam.ac.uk T: @dannykay68 B:https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/ S:http://www.slideshare.net/DannyKingsley ORCID iD: -0002-3636-5939 ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
[GOAL] Open Letter on Sustainable Development Goals, Research and Higher Education
Hello, For those of you who are interested in scientific research and higher education in developing countries, particularly in francophone Africa, the forthcoming adoption of Sustainable Development Goals by the UNdeserves attention. This process could indeed be an opportunity to includeaccess to the Internet, open science and open access as necessities for sustainable development. If these issues are important to you, we invite you to sign the Open letter (link below) to be sent shortly to the Sustainable Development team atthe UN and possibly sponsored by a president (under negotiation). https://docs.google.com/document/d/1V4V0B0BdUqMYNiLTwyG8h7ujQ8v8dEjuB2QyvuZQtKw/edit?usp=sharing Florence Piron Association for Science and Common Good SOHA Project (Open Sciencein Haiti and Francophone Africa) http://projetsoha.org ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
[GOAL] Re: Times Literary Supplement on Open Access
This paragraph from an interview with the anthropologist Tim Ingold is also revealing of the fears created by Open Access in social sciences and humanities. In order to advance the Open Access movement, we have to understand these fears and misunderstandings and get prepared to answer them. The tradition of having scholarly societies funded by subscriptions to their journals is very strong in the "culture" of these domains where the sources of funding are very scarce... Antonio: I see a sort of paradox when I publish an article and then find myself legally unable to freely disseminate it (due to copyright restrictions). What is your opinion on “open access”?Tim: On the face of it, open access looks like an admirable principle to which we would all want to subscribe. But the appearance is misleading, and the current call for open access is in fact playing directly into the hands of government, large corporations and predatory publishing houses, all of which must be taking much delight in our academic gullibility. For anthropology, to endorse open access unequivocally would be an own goal. Here’s why. Whatever regime is in place, specialist academic publishing is an extremely costly business. The question is whether these costs are borne up front by the producers of research, or by its consumers (readers and subscribers). Open access would shift the burden from the latter to the former. With rare exceptions (for example where scholars might be independently wealthy), these costs are way beyond what any individual researcher could afford. For externally funded research projects, they might be borne by the funding body (e.g., a research council). For academics with permanent positions, they might be borne by their universities. However, universities with limited resources would then have to decide what work of their academics gets published and what does not. In effect, managers and bureaucrats would find themselves in charge of decisions currently taken by editors. As for all the scholars who are not lucky enough to hold tenured positions, who may be in between jobs or have no jobs at all, their work would have absolutely no chance of being published, as they would have no means to pay. Not only that, but the scholarly societies would find their subscription income cut out from under them, and would probably be unable to continue. Yet these societies have come to play a more and more crucial role as protectors of disciplinary integrity and as a last line of defence against corporate interests and government interference.http://allegralaboratory.net/interview-tim-ingold-on-the-future-of-academic-publishing/Le 2014-01-23 à 08:04, Stevan Harnad a écrit :A very silly piece in TLS by Shakespeare scholar Jonathan Bate in which -- despite noting that until at least 2020 HEFCE has not mandated OA for books, only for journal articles -- he decries shrilly the doom and gloom that the HEFCE mandate portends for book-based humanity scholarship. The gratuitous cavilling is, as usual, cloaked in shrill alarums about academic freedom infringement... ___GOAL mailing listGOAL@eprints.orghttp://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
[GOAL] Institutional deposits and retracted papers
Hi, The forced retraction of the Séralini paper from an Elsevier journal (an attack in itself on the integrity of the scientific publication process and a clear sign that the Pre publication review process is really agonizing) makes me wonder what happens to a paper that has been retracted from a journal, but that had been deposited in a repository. Should it be also "retracted" from the repository? By whom? On whose authority? Did it happen already? Florence Piron, Québec http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Open_letter_to_FCT_and_Elsevier.php ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
