On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Kiley, Robert r.ki...@wellcome.ac.ukwrote:
I keep hearing this claim that “60% of journals allow immediate,
unembargoed, self-archiving” and wonder how accurate this.
Although I’m aware of the original source of this
Arthur,
I am amazed... Do you mean that social scientists are not scientists?
You might recall the etymology of the word statistics (e.g.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=statistics ).
A (regrettably) large majority of economists are actual mathematicians.
Demographers... what do they
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Social science research encompasses a wide range of methodologies, including a
range of quantitative methods.
The key points I am trying to make:
Academics doing research with human subjects, which includes such tools as
surveys and interviews, should check to see whether their universities
With this debate underway, I've been trying to picture a reasonable workflow
that would assess the rate of immediate green OA via publisher's self-archiving
policy and use it effectively in a collections process. I have been unable to
come up with any scenario that seems solid enough to even
Good points, Ellen. One to add, inspired by Rick: high-cost journals tend to
be part of big deals. Even if a library did all this work to identify journals
with free content, publishers would not decrease the cost of the big deal and
if libraries try to cancel the big deal, Rick's experience
Ellen, the very detailed and time-intensive process you outline below is one
that would arguably be necessary in order to perform an ongoing, comprehensive
analysis of article availability under a Green OA regime, but I think it's much
more than would be necessary in order to make reasonable
(1). I hope we have now laid to rest the absurd notion of cancelling
journals because they do *not* embargo Green OA.
(2) As to monitoring what proportion of articles published in the current
year are OA (and how soon): This is a huge ongoing *global* undertaking,
and several teams (including
Re: Business/economics with a delay of 18 months took twice as long as
chemistry with a 9 month average delay.
I checked with the Royal Society of Chemistry and find that:
Journals: Average receipt to advance article publication across all journals
for a paper is 80-85 days, for a
(6) And for OA to really begin to grow, we need effective Green OA mandates.
(7) And although I want to stress that it is not essential for the
effectiveness of Green OA mandates, it is very helpful for Green OA mandates if
publisher Green OA embargoes are zero or minimal.
Honestly, I was
Apologies for cross posting
Hello all,
We know that the RCUK and Finch position on open access has had unintended
consequences. Read the following story about how it is affecting researchers in
Australia – a story responding to the BIS Committee report on open access.
The publication outlet
On 16 September 2013 19:33, Stevan Harnad amscifo...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Rick Anderson rick.ander...@utah.eduwrote:
The issue that was raised (by Fred) under this subject thread was the
possibility of subscription losses dues to Green OA archiving.
Yes. But
Perhaps Stevan, I should have added that our Document Delivery improves our
level of use of OA too. The Document Delivery people make a check that the
requested article is not available OA before they place a per-article order.
They know all the tricks. If found to be OA the requester is advised
Serge
I did not make the distinction. Heather did. And there is a difference
between the sort of research that she was describing (survey and
interview-based) vs research that does not involve human ethics permissions
and involvement. What words would you use to describe the differences?
I have
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Excellent news from our colleagues at Deakin University who have now adopted an
open access policy.
Official statement from the university:
Deakin University’s Research Conduct
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