[GOAL] 11th Munin conference - registration is now open!

2016-07-05 Thread Frantsvåg Jan Erik
Apologies for cross-posting - please spread in your networks! This year's conference will be held November 21st and 22nd in Tromsø. Registration is now open, see https://site.uit.no/muninconf/?page_id=21 The conference fee is NOK 2400, while our conference dinner is NOK 600. We are looking

[GOAL] The 11th Munin Conference - Call for Presentations and Posters is out!

2016-05-19 Thread Frantsvåg Jan Erik
Please forward in your networks - apologies for cross-posting! This year's Munin Conference will be held in Tromsø on November 21st and 22nd. Follow us on Twitter @MuninConf and/or Facebook https://www.facebook.com/TheMuninConference/ to keep posted as we inform about registration etc. Our CFP

[GOAL] Nordic Perspectives on Open Science

2015-10-23 Thread Frantsvåg Jan Erik
http://nopos.eu/ is a new OA journal on OA and other aspects of Open Science. While we target the Nordic and Baltic countries for content providing, we believe the content could be of interest beyond our primary target area. This inaugural issue has e.g. an interesting conversation between

[GOAL] Re: Retirement from SHERPA Services

2015-09-03 Thread Frantsvåg Jan Erik
Peter, as a former head of NORA (Norwegian Open Research Archives) and a former "Norwegian RoMEO" I would like to extend my (and I believe I can say this on behalf of the Norwegian OA community) heartfelt thanks for the work you, and your team of colleagues, have done to create this very

[GOAL] Extended deadline for abstract submissions to the 10th Munin Conference Tromsø Norway

2015-07-28 Thread Frantsvåg Jan Erik
Dear friends of the Munin Conference, Recognizing that our deadline for submitting abstracts to the 10th Munin Conference is in the middle of summer, we have decided to extend the deadline to August 23rd. We still intend to evaluate submissions before the end of August, and report back our

[GOAL] Re: correction re: How an apparent small price decrease may actually be a large price increase, or why it is important to understand currencies

2015-05-26 Thread Frantsvåg Jan Erik
And one shouldn't conflate the terms cost and price, not when the two are expressed in different currencies. Managing our publication fund I have seen small price increases, but a huge cost increase due to the weakening of our currency. Price is the responsibility of the publisher, cost of the

[GOAL] Dear Munin friend: The 10th Munin Conference is ready to receive your submission!

2015-05-11 Thread Frantsvåg Jan Erik
Please share in your networks! (Please excuse cross-postings) The 10th Munin Conference is shaping up, with four confirmed keynotes: Randy Schekman, Peter Suber, Sabine Hossenfelder and Stuart Shieber. This year the dates are Monday November 30th and Tuesday December 1st. More info on our

[GOAL] Re: Any examples of journals charging non refundable fee for peer review?

2014-10-24 Thread Frantsvåg Jan Erik
I assume what you are referring to, is what is often called submission fees. This is treated in this report http://www.knowledge-exchange.info/Files/Filer/downloads/Open%20Access/KE_Submission_fees_Short_Report_2010-11-25.pdf Both OA and TA journals use this, some OA journals are listed in a

[GOAL] Munin conference 2014 - registration is opened, abstract reminder

2014-07-21 Thread Frantsvåg Jan Erik
Dear friends of Munin, Please be advised (and please spread the word) that the registration for this year's Munin Conference is opened - see http://site.uit.no/muninconf/?page_id=21 Hotel rooms may become a rare commodity, so we advise early registration and booking of rooms. We would also

[GOAL] Re: The dramatic growth of BioMedCentral's open access article processing charges

2014-03-04 Thread Frantsvåg Jan Erik
growth, with no price increase, technological innovations, and a more than healthy surplus. Best, Heather Morrison On Feb 28, 2014, at 7:08 AM, Frantsvåg Jan Erik jan.e.frants...@uit.nomailto:jan.e.frants...@uit.no wrote: Interesting numbers! Have you investigated if some of this increase

[GOAL] Re: The dramatic growth of BioMedCentral's open access article processing charges

2014-02-28 Thread Frantsvåg Jan Erik
Interesting numbers! Have you investigated if some of this increase could be explained by an increased rejection rate? - this would be an acceptable explanation, in my opinion. The suspicion is, of course, that this could be one result of e.g. the RCUK OA policy, which creates a less

[GOAL] Re: Scholars jobs not publisher profits

2013-10-04 Thread Frantsvåg Jan Erik
I strongly support David here - and I do have some background in economics. While profit margins could be compared in percentages, that is not always relevant, especially when the scales are so different as between Hindawi and Elsevier. One can actually compare dollars, and see who gets the most