Motivated by the debate over "Plan S", this lengthy article discusses historians reactions to, and attitudes toward, recent open access initiatives. An interesting read.
Karin Wulf, "A Brief History of History Responding to Open Access," Scholarly Kitchen, February 13, 2019
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Article of interest:
Konkiel, Stacy. Approaches to creating ‘humane’ research evaluation metrics for the humanities. Insights, 31 (2018). DOI: http://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.445
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A new post in the Scholarly Kitchen blog discusses an agreement between the large publisher Wiley and Projekt DEAL representing institutions in Germany. It explains in detail several other options that academic institutions and publishers might choose to move forward with "open access," "hybrid" and "read and publsh" agreements.
"Celebrating 30,000 Open Access Articles … PARs, RAPs, and Exploring Implications" by Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe for the Scholarly Kitchen blog, Jan 22, 2019.
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Brian McGill of the University of Maine. School of Biology & Ecology has published a long post on his blog Dynamic Ecology" on the many problems posed by the transition from subscriber-based publishing to author-paid publishing in "Open Access and the Reality of Getting from Here to There."
He warns that the transition period marks a "suboptimal valley" where there is no clear model for publishing and that our decisions may actually prolong the lenth of time we spend in that valley.
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Below is a news article from the Los Angeles Times concerning the heated discussions taking place between the University of California library system and Elsevir.
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Rick Anderson of the Society for Scholarly Publishing has a new comment about Plan S in The Scholarly Kitchen Blog provocatively entitled "Do You Have Concerns About Plan S Then You Must Be an Irresponsible Privileged Conspiratorial Hypocrite."
