Jean-Claude
@jcdrg.bsky.social
Open Access and Open Science advocate. Retired professor.
When I read things as asinine as the letter to the journal "Chest" by the DC attorney general, Edward Robert Martin Jr., I fear for all my sane friends in the US and I am ever so glad to live in Canada. Why have so many Americans gone mad, very mad? Canada is not for sale, by the way.
April 22, 2025 at 5:37 PM
When I read things as asinine as the letter to the journal "Chest" by the DC attorney general, Edward Robert Martin Jr., I fear for all my sane friends in the US and I am ever so glad to live in Canada. Why have so many Americans gone mad, very mad? Canada is not for sale, by the way.
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The 'radical,' 'woke' science of aspergillus infections and bronchial biopsies.
April 17, 2025 at 8:01 PM
The 'radical,' 'woke' science of aspergillus infections and bronchial biopsies.
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The Trump regime is now using US Attorneys to intimidate academic journals by sending them letters demanding they explain how they ensure ‘viewpoint diversity.’ Journal editors should be public about this and coordinate to refuse to comply with these fascist tactics.
April 17, 2025 at 7:56 PM
The Trump regime is now using US Attorneys to intimidate academic journals by sending them letters demanding they explain how they ensure ‘viewpoint diversity.’ Journal editors should be public about this and coordinate to refuse to comply with these fascist tactics.
Charlie Chaplin buttonholed Hitler quite effectively with his film, the "Great Dictator". Who is going to achieve the same result with a new film called "The Great 'President'".
February 6, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Charlie Chaplin buttonholed Hitler quite effectively with his film, the "Great Dictator". Who is going to achieve the same result with a new film called "The Great 'President'".
The MIT experience led by Chris Bourg is one of the more interesting initiatives in the last few years. It promises to free money for other forms of scholarly publishing. It also refocuses libraries squarely on the issue of price/actual_use and not price/title - the Big Deal fallacy. Bravo!
Yep. We have been out of contract with Elsevier at MIT for 4.5 years now, at substantial savings to the Institute. Happy to share our experience with any library interested in following suit.
Exclusive: ‘Lots more’ university libraries could drop big subscription deals.
After several institutions drop Elsevier deals, senior librarians say rising costs and severe financial strain have reached a “tipping point”.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
After several institutions drop Elsevier deals, senior librarians say rising costs and severe financial strain have reached a “tipping point”.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
January 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The MIT experience led by Chris Bourg is one of the more interesting initiatives in the last few years. It promises to free money for other forms of scholarly publishing. It also refocuses libraries squarely on the issue of price/actual_use and not price/title - the Big Deal fallacy. Bravo!
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Yep. We have been out of contract with Elsevier at MIT for 4.5 years now, at substantial savings to the Institute. Happy to share our experience with any library interested in following suit.
Exclusive: ‘Lots more’ university libraries could drop big subscription deals.
After several institutions drop Elsevier deals, senior librarians say rising costs and severe financial strain have reached a “tipping point”.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
After several institutions drop Elsevier deals, senior librarians say rising costs and severe financial strain have reached a “tipping point”.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
January 17, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Yep. We have been out of contract with Elsevier at MIT for 4.5 years now, at substantial savings to the Institute. Happy to share our experience with any library interested in following suit.
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Thinking about this figure more, it's remarkable how publishers were willing to accept significantly less revenue per paper, and publish a ton more of them, all to avoid green open access which they saw as a loss of their monopoly control over content (and clearly less of a direct revenue threat).
The average revenue per article for subscription-based journals is roughly twice that of APC-based journals. The economics of academic publishing is (theorized) to be caused by decreasing quality standards and publishers accepting and publishing more content to generate the same revenue. #APE25
January 19, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Thinking about this figure more, it's remarkable how publishers were willing to accept significantly less revenue per paper, and publish a ton more of them, all to avoid green open access which they saw as a loss of their monopoly control over content (and clearly less of a direct revenue threat).
And Canadian, and US, and German, and French, and ... etc Yes. yes.
How many UK universities in a row need to ditch Elsevier before RELX investors get worried about their stock price?
*pondering* ...
#houseofcards #thecostofknowledge
*pondering* ...
#houseofcards #thecostofknowledge
January 19, 2025 at 3:52 PM
And Canadian, and US, and German, and French, and ... etc Yes. yes.
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Aaron Swartz, 8 novembre 1986 - 11 janvier 2013.
Rest in Power buddy!
(drawing by @brunoleyval )
Rest in Power buddy!
(drawing by @brunoleyval )
January 11, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Aaron Swartz, 8 novembre 1986 - 11 janvier 2013.
Rest in Power buddy!
(drawing by @brunoleyval )
Rest in Power buddy!
(drawing by @brunoleyval )
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The U of Surrey cancelled its #ReadAndPublish agreement with #Elsevier.
Our BOAI20 Recs highlight that "Read-and-publish agreements are unsustainable, by paying more than necessary and putting short-term growth ahead of long-term growth."
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
Our BOAI20 Recs highlight that "Read-and-publish agreements are unsustainable, by paying more than necessary and putting short-term growth ahead of long-term growth."
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
January 7, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The U of Surrey cancelled its #ReadAndPublish agreement with #Elsevier.
Our BOAI20 Recs highlight that "Read-and-publish agreements are unsustainable, by paying more than necessary and putting short-term growth ahead of long-term growth."
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
Our BOAI20 Recs highlight that "Read-and-publish agreements are unsustainable, by paying more than necessary and putting short-term growth ahead of long-term growth."
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
The counter-revolution in scientific publishing, immediately after WWII (Maxwell, Elsevier, etc.), is simple: from selling services to researcher communities, publishers became owners and evaluators of research results.
Imagine a science where labs are evaluated by firms selling you test tubes.
Imagine a science where labs are evaluated by firms selling you test tubes.
January 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The counter-revolution in scientific publishing, immediately after WWII (Maxwell, Elsevier, etc.), is simple: from selling services to researcher communities, publishers became owners and evaluators of research results.
Imagine a science where labs are evaluated by firms selling you test tubes.
Imagine a science where labs are evaluated by firms selling you test tubes.
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Elon Musk qui attaque wikipedia et encourage à ne pas la financer. Ca confirme qu'il faut que je le fasse encore cette année. Avec enthousiasme.
December 27, 2024 at 2:49 PM
Elon Musk qui attaque wikipedia et encourage à ne pas la financer. Ca confirme qu'il faut que je le fasse encore cette année. Avec enthousiasme.
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This is so spot-on it’s scary.
December 29, 2024 at 5:46 PM
This is so spot-on it’s scary.
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The #NIH (National Institutes of Health) just released the final version of its new #OpenAccess policy to comply with the #OSTP #NelsonMemo.
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
The National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy
The 2024 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy implements additional steps to accelerate free public access to scholarly publications resulting from the research that NIH supports, ...
www.federalregister.gov
December 18, 2024 at 2:02 PM
The #NIH (National Institutes of Health) just released the final version of its new #OpenAccess policy to comply with the #OSTP #NelsonMemo.
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
I hate the perennial proposal, in REF and elsewhere, to replace all evaluation exercises with pure citation stats. This really discriminates against academics who do more than write. Example: so many papers "cite" the "Open Library of Humanities", but not the published research that informed it.
December 23, 2024 at 5:46 PM
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I hate the perennial proposal, in REF and elsewhere, to replace all evaluation exercises with pure citation stats. This really discriminates against academics who do more than write. Example: so many papers "cite" the "Open Library of Humanities", but not the published research that informed it.
December 23, 2024 at 5:07 PM
I hate the perennial proposal, in REF and elsewhere, to replace all evaluation exercises with pure citation stats. This really discriminates against academics who do more than write. Example: so many papers "cite" the "Open Library of Humanities", but not the published research that informed it.
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As promised: "A letter from polio in support of RFK Jr., co-signed by natural selection." You're welcome.
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
A letter from polio in support of RFK Jr., co-signed by natural selection | Opinion
A letter from the highly contagious viral disease polio, written to members of the U.S. Senate in support of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s confirmation.
www.usatoday.com
December 15, 2024 at 4:58 PM
As promised: "A letter from polio in support of RFK Jr., co-signed by natural selection." You're welcome.
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
This is a *really* disappointing outcome…these funds could be used to support local, community driven research communication efforts rather than continuing to feed commercial profits. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
India’s One Nation One Subscription deal enriches publishers and benefits few
Contrary to its intended goals of reducing subscription costs and improving access to scientific literature in India, Muthu Madhan argues the much-hyped One Nation One Subscription policy risks sig…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
December 19, 2024 at 10:59 PM
To read about eLife and Clarivate, see: www.nature.com/articles/d41... but keep in mind that Nature is part of a publicly-traded company. The analysis has to be weighed very carefully.
Pioneering journal eLife faces major test after loss of impact factor
The open-access title’s bold publishing model has bought long-bubbling conflicts to the fore.
www.nature.com
December 19, 2024 at 10:48 PM
To read about eLife and Clarivate, see: www.nature.com/articles/d41... but keep in mind that Nature is part of a publicly-traded company. The analysis has to be weighed very carefully.
The battle between eLife and Clarivate is crucial. If Clarivate wins, the impact factor will be vindicated once more. And the IF is the keystone of the commercial structure of scholarly journals. But if eLife demonstrates what a sham the IF is, then Clarivate will have lost a crucial battle.
December 19, 2024 at 10:46 PM
The battle between eLife and Clarivate is crucial. If Clarivate wins, the impact factor will be vindicated once more. And the IF is the keystone of the commercial structure of scholarly journals. But if eLife demonstrates what a sham the IF is, then Clarivate will have lost a crucial battle.
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This is a *really* disappointing outcome…these funds could be used to support local, community driven research communication efforts rather than continuing to feed commercial profits. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
India’s One Nation One Subscription deal enriches publishers and benefits few
Contrary to its intended goals of reducing subscription costs and improving access to scientific literature in India, Muthu Madhan argues the much-hyped One Nation One Subscription policy risks sig…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
December 5, 2024 at 3:59 PM
This is a *really* disappointing outcome…these funds could be used to support local, community driven research communication efforts rather than continuing to feed commercial profits. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
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Great finale of the #DOASummit2024: the Toluca-Cape Town Declaration on Diamond Open Access has been introduced in 4 languages
#equity #socialjustice #multilingualism #humanrights
#equity #socialjustice #multilingualism #humanrights
December 13, 2024 at 3:34 PM
Great finale of the #DOASummit2024: the Toluca-Cape Town Declaration on Diamond Open Access has been introduced in 4 languages
#equity #socialjustice #multilingualism #humanrights
#equity #socialjustice #multilingualism #humanrights