[GOAL] Scholarly Kitchen post on 4 years of invoices for APCs and hybrid-fees paid by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
All, Check out the Scholarly Kitchen post analyzing four years of invoices paid by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to secure CC BY dissemination of research results with no embargo. My co-authors and I encourage others to research the many questions which we did not look at, for example the 59% of the invoices for which were for hybrid-fees in subscription journals. Scholarly Kitchen Guest Post: Transparency: what can one learn from a trove of invoices <https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2019/11/07/guest-post-transparency-what-can-one-learn-from-a-trove-of-invoices/> . _____ John G. Dove, Paloma & Associates johngd...@gmail.com ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
[GOAL] Maximizing Dissemination
**apologies for cross-posting** In preparation for a session at the Society for Scholarly Publishing on 30 May in San Diego, I'm eager to get input on a model for a society journal in the humanities or social sciences which allows them to continue their subscription business but has them drop their pay-wall and instead send non-subscribers to a properly archived author's accepted manuscript. Is there a place for a Subscription Journal in an Open Access World? <https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/place-subscription-journal-open-access-world-john-dove/>. Comments, public and private are welcomed. -john dove _________ John G. Dove, personal e-mail johngd...@gmail.com ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
[GOAL] Fwd: [SCHOLCOMM] Follow-up on Open Letter(s) on Open Access - first public letter
GOAL: [Please excuse any cross-posting] Open Letter(s) on Open Access releases as a 'working paper' its first Open Letter. This one provides commentary on how open are the 48 sources cited in a survey article published in *Lancet* on Alzhiemer's research in China. It's an example of commenting on to what extent authors of highly regarded works have taken steps to provide open access to their research. We've clicked on the OA button for any of these cited sources which are closed or which are shared in ways that we consider problematic. So individual authors are likely to receive specific appeals for their authors to make their articles sustainably accessible. The Open Letter(s) on Open Access will release two more Open Letters in the next few weeks: one about a set of award winning articles in Sociology, and another about award winners in the humanities. These are meant to show examples of how to shine a light on how academics share important articles. Any comments or suggestions are welcome. -John Dove _ John G. Dove, personal e-mail johngd...@gmail.com PS: Want to see what I call an "Open Web Smart-Link"? Check out my article in *Learned Publishing:* "Full Discovery: What is the publisher's role?". Since it was one of the dozen most-downloaded articles in *Learned Publishing*, Wiley provided me with a link to a version that can be read without hitting the usual paywall: http://rdcu.be/QFCO. -- Forwarded message - From: Ingrid Becker Date: Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 6:10 PM Subject: [SCHOLCOMM] Follow-up on Open Letter(s) on Open Access - first public letter To: Hello all, Thanks to everyone who took a look at the OLOA project plan I shared last week! As a follow-up, I wanted to also share a version of one of our first Open Letters, which focuses on the availability of a set of resources related to Alzheimer's research. As with the project plan, I invite you to read, comment, circulate, and get in touch with any questions, ideas, opportunities for collaboration, or other feedback. You can view the letter here <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FKtVSlWHtruMofx4yMhKVaGao3U4SRbOlbA0MAjJNvM/edit?usp=sharing> . And for anyone interested that didn't catch my previous message, you are welcome to check out the project plan <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1unWpSj2ZqBbbGzgOT3ELu26hqDypKtcp_bh_slqfCQA/edit?usp=sharing> for context. Thanks again & All Best, Ingrid -- Ingrid Becker Doctoral Candidate Department of English Language and Literature University of Chicago ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
[GOAL] Open Letter(s) on Open Access project plan released as a Working Paper.
Dear Advocates for Open Access, Any of you that I've met at a conference these past three years may have had the experience of my chewing your ear off about the idea of using articles cited in newly published works as a way to systematically message authors of the cited articles about how they could better share their works [aka 'green path']. A comment from Erin McKean on my first blog post on this topic back in June of 2015 proposed the creation of a public list of the most-cited articles in Wikipedia that could have been shared (as evidenced in sherpa/romeo) but had not been---the idea was to shine a public-light to an audience of authors about effective sharing of their scholarly works. Earlier this summer a PhD student from University of Chicago, Ingrid Becker, approached me and Sam Klein (of Wikipedia fame, associate of the Berkman Klein Center on the Internet and Society at Harvard, and a co-founder of Pattern Labs) to see if we would be willing to advise her on a project that we ended up calling "Open Letter(s) on Open Access". The idea was to take this suggestion about 'most-cited sources in Wikipedia' and generalize it to "any list of sources that for some audience of academics a strong sentiment might exist that these sources ought to be openly accessible to the world." Ingrid obtained a "Graduate Global Impact" grant to be the project lead on this project. And it fit the mission of Pattern Labs which is to support projects which can quickly become a model that an expanding group of people could implement in order to accelerate some important social change. Ingrid shared our project plan yesterday on ScholComm. Soon she will share some "working draft" versions of a couple of the Open Letters. We are eager to receive feedback and suggestions, as well as indications that others could see doing similar types of communications. We found the process of coming up with a good half-dozen potential examples of lists to analyze was really easy. We hope this means that others will be easily able to pick different, even better examples of lists to provide commentary on. We developed a process for doing the analysis which we are sure can be improved--but it allowed us to quickly complete the first phase of this project without undertaking any particular technical risks. Particularly helpful to us was working out how the Open Access Button could provide us with a way to communicate with authors of articles whose sharing choices we are commenting on in our Open Letters. This greatly simplified a whole number of issues we'd otherwise have to have designed for ourselves and lived up to a principle we wanted to follow--to make a reasonable effort to reach out to authors personally before we comment on their sharing strategies publicly. Our aim in this project is, of course, that communications to academics about their sharing choices is increased significantly in quantity and effectiveness. To comment on this project, please look at the project plan linked to in Ingrid Becker's message below and add your comments there. Sincerely, John Dove _ John G. Dove, personal e-mail johngd...@gmail.com PS: Want to see what I call an "Open Web Smart-Link"? Check out my article in *Learned Publishing:* "Full Discovery: What is the publisher's role?". Since it was one of the dozen most-downloaded articles in *Learned Publishing*, Wiley provided me with a link to a version that can be read without hitting the usual paywall: http://rdcu.be/QFCO. -- Forwarded message - From: Ingrid Becker Date: Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 4:04 PM Subject: [SCHOLCOMM] Grad Student Project - Open Letter(s) on Open Access To: Dear All, I’m a doctoral candidate in the English Department at the University of Chicago. I’m writing to share the first fruits of a summer project, for which I received funding from a UChicago Graduate Global Impact grant. “Open Letter(s) on Open Access,” conceived in tandem with OA Advocate John Dove and Pattern Labs co-founder Sam Klein, aims to raise awareness about Open Access among academics and encourage authors to take advantage of the sustainable OA channels available to them. As the gesture towards the plural in the project title indicates, our work is designed as a pilot that lays out processes for similar research and outreach that we invite interested people to adopt, adapt, appropriate, and re-apply. In a similar spirit of continual improvement, we hope to obtain as much feedback as possible from scholarly communications experts on what we’ve done so far. We invite you to take a look at a copy of our project plan--available here <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1unWpSj2ZqBbbGzgOT3ELu26hqDypKtcp_bh_slqfCQA/edit?usp=sharing>--in the case that it’s useful for any of your own initiatives. And if you want to offer any kind of comments, inputs, and insigh
Re: [GOAL] Facilitating Discovery of Open Content
Sorry, just noticed a typo. "now everyone care read" should be "now everyone can read". -john _________ John G. Dove, personal e-mail johngd...@gmail.com Check out my latest post on LinkedIn: Not all Open Content is fully Discoverable <https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/all-open-content-discoverable-john-dove?> On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 4:14 PM, John G. Dove wrote: > All, >*Learned Publishing*, the journal of the Association of Learned and > Professional Society Publishers, devoted their January Issue to the topic > of Discovery. > The publisher has now opened up that issue well before the usual > embargo period would have dictated. So now everyone care read any of the > articles in that issue. The Table of Contents is at: > > Learned Publishing January 2017 issue on "Discovery" > <http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/leap.2017.30.issue-1/issuetoc> > > I thought readers of G.O.A.L. might be interested in the opinion piece > I was invited to write on Discovery Issues as it relates to Open Content. > I based my piece on work that the NISO Discovery to Delivery Topic > Committee has been doing to identify unnecessary friction between someone's > desire to share content with the world (an author, a publisher, an > institution) and all the various ways in which users seek out information > and would be glad to discover such shared content. > > Full discovery: What is the publisher's role? > <http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/leap.1086/full> > > Since this journal is for publishers I focused on things that > publishers could do to facilitate access to various forms of shared > content. In particular, I propose the development of what I call an > "OA-smart-link" not unlike the Link-Resolvers which facilitate access to > licensed content in libraries. Such a link could be provided after > citations and give the reader one or two click access to the most > accessible version of that article for that user. > > I'll be most interested in thoughts, ideas, reactions. > > -john dove > _ > John G. Dove, personal e-mail > johngd...@gmail.com > > Check out my post from 2015 on LinkedIn: Ways to systematically message > scholars and researchers about Open Access > <https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/accelerating-open-access-adoption-john-dove?published=t> > ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
[GOAL] Facilitating Discovery of Open Content
All, *Learned Publishing*, the journal of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers, devoted their January Issue to the topic of Discovery. The publisher has now opened up that issue well before the usual embargo period would have dictated. So now everyone care read any of the articles in that issue. The Table of Contents is at: Learned Publishing January 2017 issue on "Discovery" <http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/leap.2017.30.issue-1/issuetoc> I thought readers of G.O.A.L. might be interested in the opinion piece I was invited to write on Discovery Issues as it relates to Open Content. I based my piece on work that the NISO Discovery to Delivery Topic Committee has been doing to identify unnecessary friction between someone's desire to share content with the world (an author, a publisher, an institution) and all the various ways in which users seek out information and would be glad to discover such shared content. Full discovery: What is the publisher's role? <http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/leap.1086/full> Since this journal is for publishers I focused on things that publishers could do to facilitate access to various forms of shared content. In particular, I propose the development of what I call an "OA-smart-link" not unlike the Link-Resolvers which facilitate access to licensed content in libraries. Such a link could be provided after citations and give the reader one or two click access to the most accessible version of that article for that user. I'll be most interested in thoughts, ideas, reactions. -john dove _ John G. Dove, personal e-mail johngd...@gmail.com Check out my post from 2015 on LinkedIn: Ways to systematically message scholars and researchers about Open Access <https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/accelerating-open-access-adoption-john-dove?published=t> ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
Re: [GOAL] Shining a light on Discoverability of Open Access content
Jean Claude, Yes, http://dissem.in is a good example of available open source technology which seeks to score an author's output to identify articles that Sherpa/Romeo indicates could be shared but haven't been. This can help educate authors about the best places to adequately share their submitted manuscripts. More relevant to the purposes of this grid, however, is the work which the dissem.in team has done with http://doai.io which takes a DOI and attempts to find a legal and freely accessible version of the article you're seeking, but failing that takes you to the article of record. If you took either of these as "discovery pathways" and scored it for each of the journal columns (ways in which authors attempt to make their articles accessible to the world), you'd find that professors like my nephew, Patrick Dove, who share their articles on www.academia.edu or my brother, William F. Dove, who shares almost all of his pre-NIH-mandate (before 2007) articles on the McCardle Labs website, would have shared their articles in places where http://dissem.in and http://diao.io do not find them. So the intentions of the author to share and the discovery pathway to discover DO NOT ALIGN. This GRID does not advocate a particular solution to this non-alignment. This GRID just points out the lack of alignment. Solutions could be to either educate authors that sharing on www.academia.edu or departmental websites is not enough, or having discovery pathways like dissem.in and diao.io find such articles. If one decides that the "correct" fix is to educate authors about where to share then initiatives like I've been promoting about using pre-publication reference lists to ping authors urging them to share and cc'ing their scholarly publishing offices, SPARC M.O.R.E Poster Presentation on messaging to cited scholars re OA <https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/sparc-more-poster-session-john-dove?> will be a way to systematically educate authors one-at-a-time. -john dove _ John G. Dove, personal e-mail johngd...@gmail.com Check out my latest post on LinkedIn: SPARC M.O.R.E Poster Presentation on messaging to cited scholars re OA <https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/sparc-more-poster-session-john-dove?> On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 5:15 PM, Jean-Claude Guédon < jean.claude.gue...@umontreal.ca> wrote: > I am not sure of being quite on target, but I will risk it anyway. This > perspective seems to me to complete the dissemin tool in useful ways. > > To inspect what Dissemin is about, just check http://dissem.in . > > And if I am totally off base, please tell me. I stand to be corrected, if > needed. > > -- > Jean-Claude Guédon > > Professeur titulaire > Littérature comparée > Université de Montréal > > > > Le jeudi 30 juin 2016 à 15:12 -0400, John G. Dove a écrit : > > I thought this GRID might be useful or interesting to some people on this > list. > > > As I started looking (see link below my signature) at ways in which to use > pre-publication reference lists to identify and mobilize authors to share > their submitted manuscripts (green OA) I came to recognize that not each of > the various "discovery pathways" by which readers can find articles of > interest are equally able to discover such content. > > I began developing a GRID to lay out each discovery pathway and each > location of "open" content. Then I started asking questions from those > much more knowledgeable than me about how such content would be found. I > soon realized that this is not just a problem for green OA, but even for > gold OA as well as OA monographs and OER. If a new OA publisher is unaware > of some advantages to providing the discovery tool knowledge bases with the > right meta-data, for example, then their open articles won't be included in > the discovery tool. Subscription publishers tend to know about these > things because they have on-going revenue to protect which is at risk if > there's no usage attributed to their journal. More seriously is the case > of hybrid open articles which have been paid for by authors or funding > agencies to be open but are apparently unable to be discovered by > mechanisms that are architected at the journal level rather than the > article level. So I ask, would funding agencies pay for articles to be > open in a hybrid journal if they knew that such articles would not be > discoverable via a link-resolver or a library's discovery service? > > > I've now shared with GRID with the NISO "Discovery to Delivery Topic > Committee" which I joined last year. There is interest on that committee > to draft a "new item request" which then, should it gain support, can be > voted on by NISO membership
Re: [GOAL] Shining a light on Discoverability of Open Access content
Heather,
You raise some excellent points. The purpose of this GRID is not to
advocate for any particular "fix" to the problems of Discovery but simply
to make clear where there are disconnects between the intention of authors,
or publishers (such as Gold OA publishers), or funding agencies (those with
an Open Access mandate) and various ways ("discovery pathways") that
various users attempt to find articles of interest.
For example, in the column for allegedly "open" articles in hybrid
journals, there are some discovery pathways which are currently architected
or effectively 'primed' only at the journal level rather than the article
level. These discovery pathways will then only discover such "open"
articles if and only if the library subscribes to that journal.This,
some would argue, makes the promise of such articles to be "open" a false
promise.
Filling in this GRID accurately should reveal this discrepancy.
Various people will have different reactions to what to do about this
disconnect. Personally I would argue that the funding agencies with open
access mandates should not accept the current hybrid "open" fee as
compliant with their open access mission. Others, I imagine, would
advocate working hard to fix the disconnect.
I don't happen to agree with your opposition to value-added services
which enhance discovery. If we fix all of the free open access discovery
problems I think it's perfectly alright, in fact desirable, that innovation
in the ways in which publishers, scholarly societies, etc. can add value to
the lives of researchers and the organizations which employ them will be a
net benefit to the world. I think BOAI draws a very clear line: the
least resourced scholar in the world other than a good connection to the
internet should have unfettered access to making full use of the scholarly
literature in their field. The publishing systems needs to deliver on
this objective. But if they can add value in other ways to the lives of
researchers and the institutions which employ them--all the better.
-John Dove
_
John G. Dove, personal e-mail
johngd...@gmail.com
Check out my latest post on LinkedIn: SPARC M.O.R.E Poster Presentation on
messaging to cited scholars re OA
<https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/sparc-more-poster-session-john-dove?>
On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 5:12 PM, Heather Morrison <
heather.morri...@uottawa.ca> wrote:
> Interesting question and direction. This raises at least two different
> questions for me:
>
> 1. Is access via for-pay discovery tools and knowledge bases a goal
> for open access? I am concerned that the most liberal open licenses,
> allowing downstream re-use by anyone for commercial purposes, will simply
> create a new set of for-pay services. Authors and institutions that have
> contributed to open access but cannot afford these tools may find
> themselves moving one step forward (benefits of open access) but two steps
> behind (unable to afford the next generation of research tools). This is
> not my goal, and this is one of the reasons why I do not support the most
> open approaches to licensing. I want reciprocity built into the system -
> downstream users should have obligations to share back (not the same as CC
> share alike) as well as rights.
>
> 2. Does it make sense to invest heavily in incremental improvements
> in traditional systems based on traditional materials? We have these cool
> new tools - computers and internet - let’s invest in really making use of
> them rather than tweaking a print-based system. Cancel your subscription to
> the discovery service and talk to your faculty about redirecting the money
> to hire local faculty, students, and grads, to work on open access journals
> or better yet develop innovative approaches like peer-review overlay.
>
> thoughts?
>
> Heather Morrison
>
> > On Jun 30, 2016, at 3:12 PM, John G. Dove wrote:
> >
> > I thought this GRID might be useful or interesting to some people on
> this list.
> >
> > As I started looking (see link below my signature) at ways in which to
> use pre-publication reference lists to identify and mobilize authors to
> share their submitted manuscripts (green OA) I came to recognize that not
> each of the various "discovery pathways" by which readers can find articles
> of interest are equally able to discover such content.
> >
> > I began developing a GRID to lay out each discovery pathway and each
> location of "open" content. Then I started asking questions from those
> much more knowledgeable than me about how such content would be found. I
> soon realized that this is not just a problem for green OA, but even for
> gold OA as well as OA monographs and OER. If a ne
[GOAL] Shining a light on Discoverability of Open Access content
I thought this GRID might be useful or interesting to some people on this list. As I started looking (see link below my signature) at ways in which to use pre-publication reference lists to identify and mobilize authors to share their submitted manuscripts (green OA) I came to recognize that not each of the various "discovery pathways" by which readers can find articles of interest are equally able to discover such content. I began developing a GRID to lay out each discovery pathway and each location of "open" content. Then I started asking questions from those much more knowledgeable than me about how such content would be found. I soon realized that this is not just a problem for green OA, but even for gold OA as well as OA monographs and OER. If a new OA publisher is unaware of some advantages to providing the discovery tool knowledge bases with the right meta-data, for example, then their open articles won't be included in the discovery tool. Subscription publishers tend to know about these things because they have on-going revenue to protect which is at risk if there's no usage attributed to their journal. More seriously is the case of hybrid open articles which have been paid for by authors or funding agencies to be open but are apparently unable to be discovered by mechanisms that are architected at the journal level rather than the article level. So I ask, would funding agencies pay for articles to be open in a hybrid journal if they knew that such articles would not be discoverable via a link-resolver or a library's discovery service? I've now shared with GRID with the NISO "Discovery to Delivery Topic Committee" which I joined last year. There is interest on that committee to draft a "new item request" which then, should it gain support, can be voted on by NISO membership to establish a NISO "Working Group". I'm not necessarily sure that all of this lends itself to a NISO "recommended practice" or standard. It could well be that other organizations might adopt best practices or policies that would be informed by the light this grid (or some version of it) might shine on the problem. The fact that there is content which the author or perhaps the publisher or perhaps a funding agency is fully intending to be open to the world but is, in fact, hidden or blocked from some of the common discovery mechanisms is something I think needs attention. It's offered here without any rights reserved. Feel free to use it, modify it, with or without attribution. -John Dove *An Open Content Discovery Grid for full-text discovery of content intended to be open.* *Location* *Discovery * *_ Pathway* *Gold OA Journal Articles hosted by publisher* *Articles in hybrid journals which have been paid to be “open”* *Versions of articles which have been submitted to institutional or subject repositories* *Versions of articles which the author has posted in Academia .edu* *Versions of articles which the author has posted in Research Gate* *Versions of articles which the author has posted in personal or departmental websites* *Open Access Monographs* *Open Educational Resources* *General Web Search Engine* *Academic Web Search Engine* *Library Webscale Discovery Services* *Link Resolvers (targets, sources?)* *Publisher-provided links in reference lists* *Specialized Bibliographic Databases* *Journal Aggregations* *Library Catalogs* _ John G. Dove, personal e-mail johngd...@gmail.com Check out my latest post on LinkedIn: SPARC M.O.R.E Poster Presentation on messaging to cited scholars re OA <https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/sparc-more-poster-session-john-dove?> ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
[GOAL] A proposal to OASPA or others to help build a tool to assess accessibility
I've been an observer from the sidelines of the Open Access world these past many years, but am still a 'newbie'. So don't hesitate to correct anything I have wrong or wrongly stated. I'm proposing the development of a tool or set of tools that can more accurately measure a body of work as to how many of its articles are open accessible. I'm sharing a proposal to OASPA that perhaps they or they in concert with others could support the development of such a tool or tools. My proposal is at: Proposal to OASPA and others for a tool that assesses accessibility <https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/proposal-oaspa-open-access-scholarly-publishers-association-john-dove?> Some of the genesis of this idea is described in a post I drafted in June at: Overcoming Inertia in Green Open Access <https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/accelerating-open-access-adoption-john-dove?> -John Dove _ John G. Dove, personal e-mail johngd...@gmail.com ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
