Hi all,
Greg Tananbaum, from SPARC, informed me that there has been a change in 2014 in
the “Copyrights” criteria of “How open is it”, which now stress authors’
rights/permissions more than copyright ownership.
The original, 2013 version I discussed is the one available on SPARC own
website;
For anyone looking for alternatives to the SSRN Elsevier sell-out scenario:
The idea of platform cooperativism looks like it might be worth exploring as an
alternative for social scholarly sharing. The idea is that contributors are
members / partners who have equity.
Article here:
Dear list subscribers,
Just to alert you to a new post on the OpenAIRE blog that might be of interest
to you, entitled “After SSRN: Hallmarks of trust for subject repositories”.
In the aftermath of the recent sale of the social sciences pre-print and
publishing community platform SSRN to
