Archive for the ‘Open Access’ Category
Advocating “open access” and then distributing code/data/etc. only to other academics is hypocritical and contributes to institutional insularity. You are not taking the open model seriously if you restrict access based on the identity or affiliation of the person making the request. Deepak Singh on the hypocrisy of academia: If you can get Nature for [...]
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PSA: Open-access talk
Not that I have a good track record with going to talks, but I’m not even trying with this one. I’m just satisfied to note that Columbia as an institution is sponsoring events in which these issues are discussed – even if they are scheduled at maximally inconvenient times. Who pays for open access? Many [...]
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An ORCID by any other name…
Open Researcher and Contributor ID Initiative: The Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) would be an alphanumeric string that uniquely identifies an individual scientist in much the same way that a Digital Object Identifier uniquely identifies a paper, book or other scholarly publication [...] The system would distinguish between the world’s multitudinous Dr Smiths and [...]
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apparently does not save money: “Supporter” institutional membership grants affiliated scientists a discount on article processing charges, but CUMC finds that the discount does not balance out the membership fees. Is this how large, comparatively wealthy institutions should be approaching membership in and support of open-access organizations, even those run as for-profits? Is joining BMC [...]
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