Open Update

In this week's episode, we talk about the climate crisis, accessibility of research publications, and the global developments of open access over the past two decades.

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PEOPLE behind the podcast

Narrator: Chris Hartgerink

Mixing: Bjorn Uyens

Artwork: Patrick Sobrak-Seaton

Contact: [email protected]

SOURCES

UN warns of passing 1.5C https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/05/1092842

Accessibility of articles https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.00076

SciA11y (platform) https://scia11y.org/

Elsevier retracts book https://retractionwatch.com/2021/05/28/elsevier-retracts-entire-book-that-plagiarized-heavily-from-wikipedia/

Open Access across the world https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12109-021-09814-9#Sec3

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12109-021-09814-9/figures/3

Open Access in New-Zealand https://peerj.com/articles/11417/

In this week's episode, we talk about widening gender gaps due to the COVID-19 pandemic and reflect on Nature's editorial about what we can do to tackle systematic racism.

Recommended podcast: Unsettling knowledge inequities

PEOPLE behind the podcast

Narrator: Chris Hartgerink

Mixing: Bjorn Uyens

Contact: [email protected]

SOURCES

Citing replicable science 

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/05/unreliable-social-science-research-gets-more-attention-solid-studies

OA in Germany 

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11192-021-04002-0

https://subugoe.github.io/oauni/articles/supplement.html

Nearby panelist effect 

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01362-8

NAS COVID-Gender impact 

https://www.nap.edu/catalog/26061/the-impact-of-covid-19-on-the-careers-of-women-in-academic-sciences-engineering-and-medicine

Nature Editorial on systemic racism 

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01312-4

UCT toppling racist symbols 

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01321-3

ScholCom interactive fiction 

https://lisoer.wordpress.ncsu.edu/2021/05/18/new-to-the-scn-scholcom-202x-an-interactive-fiction-game/

https://people.wou.edu/~bakersc/ScholCom202X/index.html

In this week's episode, we talk about yet another acquisition in scholarly infrastructures, an attempt to archive all of Sci-Hub, and inflation in publishing.

SOURCES

Datasets on arXiv https://medium.com/paperswithcode/datasets-on-arxiv-1a5a8f7bd104

Open Plus Books https://blog.f1000.com/2021/05/13/new-book-publishing-concept-combines-taylor-francis-books-heritage-with-f1000s-open-research-model/

Downloading Sci-Hub https://gizmodo.com/archivists-want-to-make-sci-hub-un-censorable-1846898276

ProQuest acquisition https://clarivate.com/news/clarivate-to-acquire-proquest/

Publishing Inflation https://www.libraryjournal.com/?detailStory=The-New-Abnormal-Periodicals-Price-Survey-2021https://twitter.com/dannykay68/status/1389486904110768135

https://www.liberquarterly.eu/articles/10.18352/lq.10280/

In this week's episode, we talk about the end of Microsoft Academic and intellectual property protection for COVID vaccines.

SOURCES

FBI subpoenas Dr Elbakyan's data

https://twitter.com/ringo_ring/status/1390782451140767749

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/justice-department-investigates-sci-hub-founder-on-suspicion-of-working-for-russian-intelligence/2019/12/19/9dbcb6e6-2277-11ea-a153-dce4b94e4249_story.html

SciHub court case update

https://delhihighcourt.nic.in/dhc_case_status_oj_list.asp?pno=1019626

SciHub citation advantage

http://jscires.org/sites/default/files/JScientometRes-10-1-130.pdf

Microsoft Academic Services discontinuation

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/academic/articles/microsoft-academic-to-expand-horizons-with-community-driven-approach/

https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/27/22406254/microsoft-q3-2021-earnings-revenue-xbox-cloud-services-surface-gaming

https://blog.ourresearch.org/were-building-a-replacement-for-microsoft-academic-graph/

Patent waiver

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57004302

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-willing-discuss-covid-19-vaccine-patent-waiver-eus-von-der-leyen-2021-05-06/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/07/macron-voices-concerns-over-covid-vaccines-patent-waiver

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/wto-chief-says-hopes-covid-patent-issue-settled-by-december-2021-05-10/

In this week's episode, we talk about PLOS launching five new journals and lasting equity concerns in open access.

SOURCES

OA.works

https://blog.oa.works/open-access-button-is-now-oa-works/

Internet Archive ILL

https://blog.archive.org/2021/04/27/internet-archive-launches-new-pilot-program-for-interlibrary-loan/

cOAlition S tender

https://www.coalition-s.org/building-a-service-to-support-price-service-transparency-frameworks-itt/

Equity in OA

https://www.natureindex.com/news-blog/equity-concerns-persist-over-open-access-publishing

https://direct.mit.edu/qss/article/1/4/1429/96127/Who-s-writing-open-access-OA-articles

Five new PLOS journals

https://theplosblog.plos.org/2021/04/launching-new-journals-2021/

In this week's episode, we talk about publisher surveillance, the increased market concentration of publishing, and the University of Cape Town fire.

SOURCES

Preprint - publication links

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11192-021-03900-7

Stop tracking science petition

https://stoptrackingscience.eu/https://elephantinthelab.org/when-your-journal-reads-you/

German Projekt DEAL report

https://www.cesifo.org/en/publikationen/2021/working-paper/impact-german-deal-competition-academic-publishing-market

UCT fire

https://www.heraldlive.co.za/news/2021-04-21-its-all-gone-uct-says-flames-consumed-african-treasure-trove/

Sesotho UCT Open Access Book

https://www.news.uct.ac.za/article/-2021-04-16-proud-moment-as-uct-launches-first-sesotho-open-access-book

https://openbooks.uct.ac.za/uct/catalog/book/28

In this week's episode, we talk about deadnaming in publications, open source in government, experimental procedures on Wikipedia, and more.

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European Commission Open Source Strategy 

https://ec.europa.eu/info/departments/informatics/open-source-software-strategy_en

Wikiexperiments 

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/04/08/wikiexperiments-nourishing-open-science-and-open-education-with-new-recordings/

NISO Name change working group 

http://www.niso.org/press-releases/2021/04/niso-members-approve-proposal-new-recommended-practice-update-author-name

Surveillance by library vendors 

https://sparcopen.org/news/2021/addressing-the-alarming-systems-of-surveillance-built-by-library-vendors/

Gender-division research work 

https://direct.mit.edu/qss/article/2/1/111/97558/Investigating-the-division-of-scientific-labor

In this week's episode, we talk about more cybersecurity breaches, big deal renegotiations, fair use copyright and vaccine patents.

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LexisNexis deal with ICE

https://theintercept.com/2021/04/02/ice-database-surveillance-lexisnexis/

Hacks at various US institutes

https://dorper.me/articles/unileak.aspx

Renegotiations with Elsevier

https://sparcopen.org/news/2021/with-50-cut-virginia-research-libraries-recalibrate-relationship-with-elsevier/

https://www.crkn-rcdr.ca/en/crkn-meets-bold-negotiation-objectives-elsevier-renewal

https://sparcopen.org/our-work/big-deal-knowledge-base/

Google v Oracle

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/18-956_d18f.pdf

COVID Vaccine patent protections

https://www.eifl.net/system/files/resources/202103/civil-society-statement-on-copyright-and-proposed-trips-waiver.pdf

https://twitter.com/nshockey/status/1379087419778158596?s=12

In this week’s episode, we talk about journal transfers, google scholar's public access ticker, cookies on publisher sites, and more.

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Journal transfer trade

https://journaltransfer.issn.org/

Power gap, wealth gap, pay gap

https://www.aauw.org/app/uploads/2021/02/WPG-Power-Gap-at-Elite-Universities-2021-Study-2.pdf

Google Scholar public access

https://scholar.googleblog.com/2021/03/track-and-manage-your-public-access.html

Cookie blocking on publisher websites

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2777868

Researcher bill of rights

https://www.force11.org/article/call-community-input-researcher-bill-rights-and-principles

eLife partners with PREReview

https://elifesciences.org/for-the-press/3071bfea/elife-and-prereview-partner-to-promote-greater-diversity-in-peer-review

In this week’s episode, we talk about University of California’s deal with  Elsevier, London police issuing a warning against using Sci-Hub, and  more.

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Mendeley removed private groups

https://service.elsevier.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/33551/supporthub/mendeley/

Internet shutdown Republic of Congo

https://netblocks.org/reports/internet-shutdown-in-the-republic-of-the-congo-on-election-day-xAGR398z

Open practices in psychology    (compared to biomedical)

https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691620979806

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3001107

Curate Science’s transparency audit

https://twitter.com/kirstie_j/status/1372795269859844105

UC transformative agreement with Elsevier

https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/uc-s-deal-elsevier-what-it-took-what-it-means-why-it-matters

http://thetaper.library.virginia.edu/2021/03/19/four-concerns-about-the-new-uc-elsevier-deal.html

City of London police warns use of Sci-Hub

https://www.cityoflondon.police.uk/news/city-of-london/news/2021/march/police-warn-students-and-universities-of-accessing-an-illegal-website-to-download-published-scientific-papers/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/justice-department-investigates-sci-hub-founder-on-suspicion-of-working-for-russian-intelligence/2019/12/19/9dbcb6e6-2277-11ea-a153-dce4b94e4249_story.html

https://delhihighcourt.nic.in/dhc_case_status_oj_list.asp?pno=1019626