[GOAL] The OA interviews: Philip Cohen, founder of SocArXiv

2017-03-14 Thread Richard Poynder
Fifteen years after the launch of the Budapest Open Access Initiative the OA revolution has yet to achieve its objectives. It does not help that legacy publishers are busy appropriating open access, and diluting it in ways that benefit them more than the research community. As things stand we co

[GOAL] Facilitating Discovery of Open Content

2017-03-14 Thread John G. Dove
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

Re: [GOAL] Facilitating Discovery of Open Content

2017-03-14 Thread John G. Dove
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