November 22, 2019
Lindsay McKenzie, in the Chronicle: The Carnegie Mellon deal covers the open-access publishing costs of 100 percent of articles published in Elsevier journals where a Carnegie Mellon academic was the corresponding author. The university currently publishes around 175...
November 14, 2019
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe's Scholarly Kitchen post is ostensibly on the absurd idea of regional geofencing. But the post, weirdly, turns to doubt-casting on the viability of open access itself: Even if there is enough money in the system to transform subscriptions for...
November 12, 2019
From the latest Social Sciences & Humanities Open Cloud (SSHOC) newsletter: [I]t's now possible to catch a glimpse of what SSHOC plans to offer to SSH researchers and institutions, and how the project connects to EOSC [the European Open Science Cloud]. It's been a...
November 6, 2019
Sicco de Knecht, writing in Science Guide on Elsevier's offer to exchange OA for Dutch researchers’ data: Friday’s revelations about the ongoing negotiations between Dutch Universities and Elsevier have led to a stream of dismayed reactions. As a negotiating offer the...
November 5, 2019
A European working group just released its initial scheme for a digital portal for data sharing and discovery for non-scientists: The Social Sciences & Humanities communities are in an urgent need of a place to gather and exchange information about their tools,...
