[GOAL] Hat Tip: "How to Succeed in Publishing Without Really Trying"

Blog Update: Hat Tip: "How to Succeed in Publishing Without Really Trying" . This hat tip goes to Bryn Geffert, Librarian of the College at Amherst College, Massachusetts for his creative retelling of C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters on today's Inside Higher Ed site, en

[GOAL] Re: Public awareness of the OA movement

On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 3:50 PM, wrote: > 1. **My fault; I should have typed THAT rather than THE research > community > THAT research community is the biomedical research community (44% of UK's total annual research, as indexed by Thomson-Reuters-ISI): http://www.nature.com/polopoly_fs/7

[GOAL] Re: [sparc-oaforum] Re: Clarification of the new OA policy from the RCUK

I have always thought that using text-minability and thus the potential development of web AI technologies as an argument for the benefits of open access was not appropriate. For many researchers, it is not an effective/convincing argument simply because the assumed benefits of this automatio

[GOAL] Re: Public awareness of the OA movement

Stevan - 1. My fault; I should have typed THAT rather than THE research community 2. I agree the RCUK policy favours gold (with immediate CC-BY) over green 3. I disagree that the RCUK policy will encourage publishers to withdraw green permissions; explicitly it demands green

[GOAL] Re: Public awareness of the OA movement

Dear all, I think Keith is profoundly mistaken on his two central points: (1) That the new RCUK policy is something that "the research community has chosen" and hence "there is nothing green OA advocates can do to stop it" (2) That "publishers will [not] all [offer] hybrid gold immediately to ‘c

[GOAL] Re: Public awareness of the OA movement

All – We need some balance here. Although I am a fervent advocate of green libre (for datasets and software as well as scholarly publications) history tells us we have not (yet) succeeded even with publications. Meantime in UK (and US) a bandwagon in biomedical sciences is rolling namely Gol

[GOAL] Re: Public awareness of the OA movement

While I generally agree with Stevan Harnad's message below, I do believe it is important to say "some open-access journals" and "some gold open-access advocates". Simply not to reduce the entire "gold OA" to some, potentially harmful, OA practices. Jean-Claude Guédon Le jeudi 23 août 2012 à 22: