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The Wellcome Trust is one of the most valuable organisations in Open Access. It’s blazed a trail of clarity through the Open Access jungle. Very simply: WT require their grantees to publish Gold CC-BY Open Access They provide money to … Continue reading →

If you are confused by “Open Access” you are in good company. So am I. It’s horrendous. Here Danny Kingsley and the  Australian Open Access Support Group (AOASG) have created an excellent series of blog posts on Open Access. They are … Continue reading →

You may be getting bored with my posts. I’m sorry but I am continuing to report injustice and that is never boring. Elsevier is still apparently behaving illegally and they don’t care. Here’s a story from today. Thanks to Sheffield … Continue reading →

    Here’s the university of Cambridge’s reply to my request about barriers to  content-mining imposed by publishers. It’s exactly what I had asked for. (It’s a pity that several other Universities decided it was too much effort.) See earlier … Continue reading →

Nearly 20 working days ago I FOI’ed 10 Russell group universities about their contracts and practices of content-mining and their relations with researchers and publishers. Over half have responded – the others have a day or two left. In summary … Continue reading →

I have sent the following letter to my MP: Dear Julian LEGISLATION on EXCEPTIONS TO COPYRIGHT and PUBLISHER CLICK-THROUGH LICENCES Please copy this letter to David Willetts. I know you have been championing the Hargreaves reforms and note David Willetts’ … Continue reading →

Lest you think this blog is solely concerned with bashing Elsevier, it tries to be impartial. Most of the time I get my targets from the puffing of publishers on Twiiter flaunting their “open access offerings” and it just happens … Continue reading →

Elsevier’s Director of Access and Policy (was “Universal Access”) has commented on my blog posts. Dear Peter: We appreciate your concerns about this matter, and I can assure you that Elsevier is taking the issues you have raised seriously and … Continue reading →

Robert Kiley has just published a spreadsheet of every single paper they have sponsored as paid (“Gold”) open access. http://figshare.com/articles/Wellcome_Trust_APC_spend_2012_13_data_file/963054 . This is brilliant. Every funder should do this. So off I went to see if the papers were really Open … Continue reading →

I am so excited to be supported by Shuttleworth – I’m still running round in circles working out where to go. The reason is that the support is massive. Not just money, but mentoring, experience, etc. And especially the heartbeats. … Continue reading →