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André de Avillez

Not the Answer - An Academic Carefully Assesses the Arguments for Open Access | The Sch... - 1 views

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open access risks

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  • One of the forms of open access . . . consists in the creation and use of repositories for research writing: databases, typically run by university libraries, into which ‘pre-prints’ (basically, manuscripts) of journal articles may be uploaded for free download by anyone with access to the internet. This has recently become known as ‘green’ open access
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      definition of "Green OA"
  • gold’ open access, which keeps journals open by moving the burden of payment from the reader to the writer
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  • t represents a further drain on university budgets (since repositories are not free to run)
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      definition of "Gold OA"
  • Authors are not producing work for publishers, but for other academics;
  • Gold OA will likely only work for academics at the richest institutions, creating closed access further upstream
  • OA advocates tend to conflate problems (e.g., library access with subscription prices with domain expertise with taxpayer status), which makes each problem harder to solve or address in a practical way
  • ublishers are in fact paid labor for academics, who are the ultimate consumers
  • Careers in publishing are getting harder, especially in editorial roles, which is leading to fewer young professionals pursuing these paths, bad news for the future of high-quality scientific communication
  • the pay-to-say system was devised in order to permit elite academics to continue publishing in the manner to which they had become accustomed, they will be under no obligation to write in a manner more accessible to an audience of non-specialists, and their publishers will be paid in advance even if no-one ever so much as downloads the articles they turn out.
  • André de Avillez on 12 Jan 14
     
    A reply to Daniel Allington's concerns with open access, including a conversation with Allington in the comments section
André de Avillez

Who's Afraid of Peer Review? - 2 views

www.sciencemag.org/...60.full

risks Peer Review open access journals

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  • Acceptance was the norm, not the exception
  • accepted by journals hosted by industry titans Sage and Elsevier
  • by journals published by prestigious academic institutions such as Kobe University in Japan.
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  • by scholarly society journal
  • ven accepted by journals for which the paper's topic was utterly inappropriate,
  • Some open-access journals that have been criticized for poor quality control provided the most rigorous peer review of all.
  • Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)
  • The Who's Who of credible open-access journals is the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
  • There is another list—one that journals fear. It is curated by Jeffrey Beall, a library scientist at the University of Colorado, Denver. His list is a single page on the Internet that names and shames what he calls "predatory" publishers
  • one in five of Beall's "predatory" publishers had managed to get at least one of their journals into the DOAJ
  • Some say that the open-access model itself is not to blame for the poor quality control revealed by Science's investigation.
  • But open access has multiplied that underclass of journals, and the number of papers they publish. "Everyone agrees that open-access is a good thing," Roos says. "The question is how to achieve it."
  • The most basic obligation of a scientific journal is to perform peer review
André de Avillez

» On open access, and why it's not the answer Daniel Allington - 1 views

www.danielallington.net/...open-access-why-not-answer

open access risks

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    A critical view of open access publishing
André de Avillez

Open Access on the Sea of Confusion | The Scholarly Kitchen - 2 views

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open access

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  • a short list of some of the many OA models
  • Freely available journal paid for by author publication charges
  • Free available journal with no APCs, paid for by institution or funding agency grant.
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  • mmediate deposit in a repository, or web posting of freely available article which also appears in a subscription journal
  • mmediate deposit in a repository, or web posting of freely available article with no subsequent publication in a subscription journal.
  • Delayed free access to the article in a journal after an embargo period.
  • Delayed free access to the article in a repository after an embargo period.
  • Combine those with all of the different views on copyright and licensing for reuse
  • Using terms like gold OA and green OA does not resolve this confusion
  • André de Avillez on 12 Jan 14
     
    Brief post on the ambiguity of the term "open access"
Kris Klotz

Open Peer Review | Project Agora - 2 views

www.project-agora.org/...open-peer-review

Peer Review open access policies

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      Project Agora's peer review process
  • The author’s manuscript after eligibility check (step 1) made by the journal’s editors enters the traditional double blind peer review (step 2). Articles accepted for publication are then available for an open comment peer review (step 3) for a given period (at least 30 days) during which the journal’s editors solicit scholars in the field to post comments.  All registered users to the journals are therefore able to comment on and to discuss the accepted articles published in pre-print format. This part of the peer review process is moderated by the journals editors. Authors are able to revise their articles for final publication in the light of both forms of review (double blind and open).
Kris Klotz

Peer review process | Economic Thought - 0 views

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Peer Review policies open access

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    Also has open peer discussion forum
Kris Klotz

Systems: An open, two-stage peer-review journal - 3 views

www.nature.com/...nature04988.html

Peer Review

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  • In the first stage, manuscripts that pass a rapid pre-screening (access review) are immediately published as 'discussion papers' on the journal's website. They are then subject to interactive public discussion for a period of 8 weeks, during which the comments of designated reviewers, additional comments by other interested members of the scientific community, and the authors' replies are published alongside the discussion paper. Reviewers can choose to sign their comments or remain anonymous, but comments by other scientists must be signed.
  • Kris Klotz on 18 Jan 14
     
    Brief article in Nature on open peer review process of two science journals
  • André de Avillez on 21 Jan 14
     
    Very interesting hypothesis: "These numbers support the idea that public peer review and interactive discussion deter authors from submitting low-quality manuscripts, and thus relieve editors and reviewers from spending too much time on deficient submissions."
  • Kris Klotz on 21 Jan 14
     
    I noticed Chris tweeted that comment earlier. It's a good complement to the more common finding of confirmation bias.
Kris Klotz

Author Rights: Using the SPARC Author Addendum to secure your rights as the author of a... - 0 views

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open access rights

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      Kris Klotz on 16 Jan 14
       
      Bookmarking this for our eventual discussion of editorial policies
Mark Fisher

Essays in Philosophy | Vol 15 | Iss 1 - 2 views

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PublicPhilosophy essays philosophy open access

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    This is a 2014 volume of essays on the current status of Public Philosophy. A lot of interesting stuff here.
André de Avillez

PLOS Computational Biology: A Peer-Reviewed Open-Access Journal - 0 views

www.ploscompbiol.org/...reviewerGuidelines

policies

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  • André de Avillez on 21 Oct 14
     
    Reviewer guidelines for PLOS computational biology
André de Avillez

PLOS Medicine: A Peer-Reviewed Open-Access Journal - 0 views

www.plosmedicine.org/...policies

policies

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  • André de Avillez on 21 Oct 14
     
    General Policies for PLOS journals
André de Avillez

PLOS Computational Biology: A Peer-Reviewed Open-Access Journal - 0 views

www.ploscompbiol.org/...commentGuidelines

policies

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  • André de Avillez on 21 Oct 14
     
    Guidelines for public commenting on articles at PLOS computational biology
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