[Listening] Webinaire #ToutlAO #OAW25 "L'option de la non-cession exclusive des droits : un outil pour l'accès ouvert immédiat des publications scientifiques", avec Benoit Pier (croisé à Centrale Lyon jadis !).
=> insoutenables #APC fr. 
! (43 millions pour la #france, données Couperin)
#openaccess #openscience #costofknowledge #cost #publishing #cOAlitionS #ANR
Le comité éditorial du #JournalOfClinicalImmunology démissionne pour créer une revue #OpenAccess à #ButNonLucratif : #JournalOfHumanImmunity
#APC
Our #APC analysis preprint was cited in a Wall Street Journal story today, along with Elsevier's response.
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/scientific-journals-quality-publishers-6399fc95?st=NQ8a7Z
Since #PHP's #APC seems to be discontinued? Are folks using the #PECL http://pecl.php.net/package/APCu for #performance?
Ugh. Stupid APC UPS with it's proprietary network card and screwball console interface. I bought a secondhand network card for my UPSes, and one of them has a non-default password set.
The password reset procedure is a pain in the ass, and involved a cursed console cable.
Wir laden herzlich zur Veranstaltung “OA Datenpraxis Webinar: Erfassung von Publikationskosten an wissenschaftlichen Einrichtungen in Deutschland” ein.
In dem Webinar werden erstmals Ergebnisse einer Umfrage vorgestellt, die 2024 durchgeführt wurde.
28.03.2025 von 10:00 bis 11:00 CET
Informationen zum Programm und Anmeldung: https://hu-berlin.zoom-x.de/webinar/register/WN_pKTlDzjsQwC7QspLxwMHCg Informationen zur Umfrage: https://infomgnt.org/posts/2024-09-30-survey-announcement-publication-costs/
@Enfanthese @p4bl0 J'avais écrit un billet de blog sur le sujet, il y a quelques années. Il y a quelques références citées :
http://gblanc.fr/spip.php?article743&lang=fr
Il faut que je refasse la biblio car cette lèpre est en train de tout submerger... Je suis preneur de vos références sur le sujet.
Évaluations HCERES : la pensée tableur en action pour imposer l’approche par compétences dans les formations ?
Via le SNESup-FSU Université de Lille
https://fsu.univ-lille.fr/spip.php?article301
Update. Here's an unrefereed letter to the editor leaving the false impression that the UK #REF requires researchers to publish in #APC-based #OpenAccess journals. (It doesn't require publishing in OA journals; authors may choose #GreenOA instead; and when they do choose to publish in OA journals, they are free to choose no-APC or #DiamondOA journals.)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41415-025-8398-8
Dans @AOC_media : "Derrière la promesse de l’open access, la marchandisation renouvelée de l’édition scientifique"
https://aoc.media/analyse/2025/02/16/derriere-la-promesse-de-lopen-access-la-marchandisation-renouvelee-de-ledition-scientifique/ (actuellement en libre accès)
Historique rapide, le cas MDIP, zones grises, évaluation de la recherche, etc.
"Ce n’est pas l’open access en tant que tel qui est à l’origine de la situation décrite : bien des formats d’édition (revues « diamant », dépôt légal en ligne) permettent d’en développer les vertus sans générer les exagérations décrites dans cet article, à commencer par la trivialisation de la publication."
#OA #OpenScience #APC
Ukraine Daily summary - Tuesday, February 11 2025
Negotiations are dictated on the battlefield; Polish envoy on Russia-Ukraine war -- Russia massing troops for new assaults in Chasiv Yar -- Drones target key Russian oil refinery in Krasnodar Krai -- Europe mulls large-scale seizures of Russia's 'shadow fleet' ships -- Ukraine approves high-speed Baton drones for battlefield deployment -- and moreThe _Journal of Optical Microsystems_ has been an #APC-based #OpenAccess journal. It knows that its APCs have excluded authors unable to find funding and it wants to solve that problem. But its solution is to switch to #hybrid — removing the APC for some articles but removing OA for the same articles.
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/journal-of-optical-microsystems/volume-5/issue-01/010101/Accessibility-and-Open-Access/10.1117/1.JOM.5.1.010101.full
The editorial announcing the change describes #DiamondOA, among other approaches. So we know that the journal knows about the model, and knows that it could remove APCs and keep OA at the same time. But the journal did not choose diamond OA and the editorial doesn't explain why.
22 minutes sur la surproduction scientifique, avec Laurent Romary :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPPbsqcZ4Ew
#APC #openaccess #science
Tired of paying #APC to publish, or watching colleagues being blocked by APCs? Interested in making your journal free to publish according to #DiamondOA principles? #EDCH will guide you every step of the way to Diamond open access. https://diamas.org/sites/default/files/Communication%20Kit/Brochure%20EDCH%20digital.pdf
Enjoying an APC Back-UPS BX750MI in my #homelab with #FreeBSD and apcupsd. I can easily use the UPS status to auto-shutdown a cluster of FreeBSD machines on a power cut. One FreeBSD machine acts as the apcupsd master, connected via USB to the APC, while the remaining machines read the status remotely via the apcupsd network port from the master. However, it won't work when the master is down. #APC #UPS
Publisher’s cost cutting, including the botched use of AI, pushes editors of top journal to resign
Walled Culture has noted previously the fabulous levels of profit that many academic publishers have achieved, largely through the abuse of copyright, as explained in Walled Culture the book (free digital versions). And yet those levels are apparently not enough for perhaps the most successful of the academic publishers, Elsevier. A story on the site Retraction Watch reports on the mass […]
#academicPublishing #AccessToKnowledge #accessibility #ai #apc #copyediting #editing #elsevier #journals #openAccess #production #profits #resignations #retractions #subscriptions
The editorial board of the 52-yr old _Journal of Human Evolution_ just resigned to protest #Elsevier's interference with editorial practices, reducing journal quality, and insistence on a high #APC ($3990), reducing its affordability to authors in the field. "We all care deeply about the journal, our discipline, and our academic community; however, we find we can no longer work with Elsevier in good conscience."
https://retractionwatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Social-Media-Statement-re-JHE-Resignations.pdf
There's no sign yet that the editors will launch a new #OpenAccess journal somewhere else. So I've not yet added it to the #OAD list of journal #DeclarationsOfIndependence
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Journal_declarations_of_independence
I just got two pieces of #spam in one week from _Medical Sciences_, an #MDPI journal. The first invited me to submit an article and offered me a discount on its #APC. The second nagged me for not responding to the first.
I'm not a medical researcher. My fields are philosophy, law, and open access. This is easy to discover in a simple web search.
If this medical journal knows my fields, then why is it soliciting an article from me? If it doesn't know my fields, then why is it soliciting an article from me?
Does it realize that its emails prove that it's spamming researchers at random without knowing the first thing about them?
I'm sure you get this kind of spam too. When you find time, I urge you to post about it and name names.
I don't do this often enough. Here are two earlier examples.
* July 2017
https://web.archive.org/web/20180801143629/https://plus.google.com/+PeterSuber/posts/CcyhJ7NudEh
* June 2018
https://web.archive.org/web/20180801143627/https://plus.google.com/+PeterSuber/posts/6DfDZABMNSv
How #authors and #journals both benefit from publishing #AI slop.
https://www.science.org/content/article/shoddy-commentaries-quick-and-dirty-route-higher-impact-numbers-are-rise
Authors get another publication for their resumes, perhaps a PubMed-indexed publication. If it's a #commentary, not a research article, they needn't do any new research. Journals get an #APC, citations to game their impact factor (#JIF), or both.
"The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) has served as a pivotal platform for fostering cooperation among governments, civil society, the private sector and technical communities to collectively address the opportunities and challenges brought about by the digital age. The UN Global Digital Compact (GDC) has expanded the scope of the global digital governance agenda beyond the internet-related public policy issues outlined in the WSIS consensus. It has put the spotlight on global inequality, also calling attention to the concentration of market power, the challenges posed by emerging technologies, in particular artificial intelligence (AI), and the need for renewed and more effective cooperation.
The process of deliberation in the UN system through the recently adopted Global Digital Compact in September 2024 and the upcoming 20-year review of the WSIS Agenda (WSIS+20) in 2025 are more than routine milestones in the multilateral process and the global digital cooperation ecosystem. They signify major opportunities to examine the adequacy of our actions and regroup to meet the trajectories of digital injustice headlong. They also are a flashpoint within which to situate, develop and push forward a renewed vision of digitality.
In that context, APC will engage with the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2024 with the intention to both contribute to those conversations and to create spaces for exchange of perspectives and identification of priorities for the WSIS+20 review, including the renewal and expansion of the mandate of the IGF itself."
MC Pablo ∴ #SyndiquezVous 
