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I recently described /pmr/2013/08/09/crowdsourcing-at-crowdcrafting-were-doing-antimatter-research-2/ why I was helping (in a very small way) a Crowdcrafting project to help CERN scientists in finding how antimatter behaves in gravity. Here’s an update http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2013/08/08/join-the-dots-to-measure-antimatter/ about why and what the experiment is about (from … Continue reading →

Elsevier has replied (italics) to my blog post /pmr/2013/08/14/elsevier-charges-3000-usd-apc-and-then-retains-all-rights-is-this-openaccess-no-they-then-put-it-behind-paywall-32-usd/ and addressed one of the problems I reported Dear Peter, Thank you for pointing out these concerns. It’s a good thing to have someone so focused on pointing issues out for … Continue reading →

The latest ScholarlyKitchen features an interview http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2013/08/15/an-interview-with-roy-kaufman-copyright-clearance-center/ with Roy Kaufman the head of the CopyrightClearanceCenter (CCC). CCC operates the Rightslink service which charges readers for re-use of scholarly articles (“the [RL] customer is usually the publisher”) . “Founded in 1978 … Continue reading →

Preamble: A large number of publishers now have “open access” offerings and have been actively promoting them, including on Twitter. I have been checking with several of these to see whether the “open access” is properly and labelled. Some (including … Continue reading →

Every day we get tweeted by Elsevier about their wonderful #openaccess offerings. One of the latest pointed to: http://www.elsevier.com/about/open-access/open-access-journals. I chose http://www.journals.elsevier.com/applied-and-translational-genomics/ to see how this worked. Note licences are discussed under http://www.elsevier.com/journals/applied-and-translational-genomics/2212-0661/guide-for-authors where they offer CC-BY, CC-BY-NC-SA and CC-BY-NC-ND. … Continue reading →

There’s a number of academic protagonists arguing that CC-NC on journals articles protects authors while CC-BY does not. (see discussion with Rosie Redfield, /pmr/2013/08/12/resale-of-openaccess-cc-by-papers-is-fully-acceptable/#comment-140831 ) I don’t believe this and it isn’t shown in practice. Until recently all major fully-OA … Continue reading →

There has been a flurry of activity about Development Policy Review and Disasters, journals “published” by the ODI. Last week Duncan Green on his / OXFAM blog http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=15465 wrote: Yet this week I had a depressing exchange with the (usually … Continue reading →

Chris Sakkas (Admin of the FOSsil Bank wiki and the Living Libre blog and Twitter feed.) has worked hard to collate current usage of terms in the free/open/libre domains. As readers of this blog will know there is wide variation … Continue reading →

I’m on the OKFN advisory board on the Open Definition which also oversees licences, their openness and compatibility. I am really impressed by the other members (I normally have little to contribute!) What happens when you want to edit a … Continue reading →

Prompted by the an (author) tweet on a new openaccess paper from CUP I went to http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8966489 .   I have no idea whether this was APC-paid, but’s it’s “Open Access” under the CC-BY-NC-SA licence (i.e. non-commercial). The PDF is … Continue reading →