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By Dorothea SaloCategory:
Open Access
I would be utterly remiss in my duties were I not to point out SciBling John Wilbanks's vitally important new open-access initiative. I pledge my full and free support. After all, my brain is basically purée anyway… (Apologies to those...
Posted July 1, 2010 • • 0 TrackBacks
By Dorothea SaloCategory:
Tactics
Much is murky in open access, but this at least is clear: academic libraries have committed different amounts of money and staff toward an open-access future, from a flat zero up to hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth. It's the...
Posted June 29, 2010 • • 0 TrackBacks
By Dorothea SaloCategory:
Open Access
Having inflicted at least one truly Bulwer-Lytton-contest-worthy metaphor on FriendFeed today ("The NPG/CDL thing isn't about open access; open access is just lurking there, kinda like a knife-wielding maniac in a horror movie"), I feel I must raise the stakes...
Posted June 11, 2010 • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
By Dorothea SaloCategory:
Open Access
This morning, when Nature Publishing Group responded to the University of California library's broadside, I contemplated taking the response apart piece by piece in a bit of "... translated into English" satire. I'm glad I didn't have the chance. I'm...
Posted June 10, 2010 • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
By Dorothea SaloCategory:
Open Access
This is the sort of event I can never, ever manage to predict. Like the Harvard OA mandate. Or the PRISM Coalition. In brief, Nature Publishing Group tried the usual big-publisher contract-renewal tactics: jack the price a lot, because although...
Posted June 8, 2010 • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
By Dorothea SaloCategory:
Open Access
I'm not a business analyst with my eye on the scholarly publishing industry, but if I were, I'd sound an awful lot like Claudio Aspesi being interviewed by Richard Poynder. I can't speak to Elsevier's internal organizational issues, but the...
Posted June 8, 2010 • • 0 TrackBacks
By Dorothea SaloCategory:
Open Access
This post is intended for Dan Cohen and Tom Scheinfeldt's crowdsourced Hacking the Academy book. Arguments about open access usually appeal to altruism, tradition, or economics. Even arguments supposedly aimed at researcher self-interest strike me as curiously abstract, devoid of...
Posted May 28, 2010 • • 0 TrackBacks
By Dorothea SaloCategory:
Open Access
I'm on record predicting a toll-access journal bloodbath. Anecdotes are not data, one dead swallow doesn't mean the end of summer, and so on… but I just heard yesterday about a second small independent toll-access journal whose sponsors may be...
Posted May 27, 2010 • • 0 TrackBacks
By Dorothea SaloCategory:
Open Access
Having made it back at last from Scotland despite the ash cloud, and overcome jetlag and (some) to-do list explosion, I finally have leisure to reflect a bit on UKSG 2010. My dominant takeaway is that nearly everyone in the...
Posted May 4, 2010 • • 0 TrackBacks
By Dorothea SaloCategory:
Metablogging
My husband and I have been stranded by the ash cloud from Iceland. We are well-housed thanks to good friends and the strength of weak ties, so there is no need to worry about us. With luck, we'll be able...
Posted April 23, 2010 • • 0 TrackBacks
