Open Café
Toby Green
This list records all the documents, reports, and websites mentioned in the Open Café Listserv. Open Café, launched by Rick Anderson in February 2024, is dedicated to the free, open, constructive, and civil discussion of issues related to open scholarship – including open access, open science, open data, and adjacent topics. Open Café is a place for people across the full spectrum of viewpoints and perspectives to ask questions, offer opinions, and share information in an environment of mutual respect and openmindedness. You can sign up to Open Café by sending an email message to opencafe-l-subscribe-request@listserv.byu.edu
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COPE: The Committee on Publication Ethics · 15 June 2022 English
The subject of paper mills is currently being widely discussed by many stakeholders across the research publishing landscape. This report aims to give an overview of this topic, to explain …
OSI: Open Scholarship Initiative · 20 August 2020 English
Elsevier · 2023
Research with an impact on society has always been important. But with increasingly stretched budgets, it’s now equally important to assess, audit and communicate this impact. Funders know this and …
EC: European Commission · 27 November 2023
This report offers guidance on the operating and financing model(s) to establish Open Research Europe (ORE), the European Commission’s open access publishing platform, as a collective non-profit publishing service from …
The Australia Institute · 20 March 2024
Academic publishing houses are among the most profitable businesses in the world. They charge exorbitant fees for access to research that the public funds. The global momentum toward a free …
MPG: Max Planck Society · 28 April 2015
This paper makes the strong, fact-based case for a large-scale transformation of the current corpus of scientific subscription journals to an open access business model. The existing journals, with their …
OSI: Open Scholarship Initiative · 19 March 2019
Deceptive publishing (more commonly known as “predatory publishing”) is an important and troubling issue in scholarly communication. However, its parameters and seriousness are a matter of controversy, and there is …
Elsevier · 15 October 2023
Institutions and their researchers face mounting pressure to demonstrate their wider value; for example, their contributions in areas such as open science, societal change, and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. …
15 September 2018 English
This essay traces the history of refereeing at specialist scientific journals and at funding bodies and shows that it was only in the late twentieth century that peer review came …
2011 English
What are the challenges and opportunities facing peer review in a networked world? We review the state of journal peer review at the end of 2010, beset by ever-increasing volumes …
13 April 2021
For many decades, the hyperinflation of subscription prices for scholarly journals have concerned scholarly institutions. After years of fruitless efforts to solve this “serials crisis”, open access has been proposed …
EC: European Commission · 27 November 2023
This spreadsheet model accompanies the report 'Scenario Modelling for Open Research Europe' and has been prepared for the European Commission's Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG R&I) by Rob Johnson …
Scholarly Communications Lab · 4 May 2022
The review, promotion, and tenure (RPT) process is central to academic life and workplace advancement. It influences where faculty direct their attention, research, and publications. By unveiling the RPT process, …
15 November 2022
In our digital world, data is power. Information hoarding businesses reign supreme, using intimidation, aggression, and force to maintain influence and control. Sarah Lamdan brings us into the unregulated underworld …
1 July 2021
For decades, the supra-inflation increase of subscription prices for scholarly journals has concerned scholarly institutions. After years of fruitless efforts to solve this “serials crisis”, open access has been proposed …
PKP: Public Knoweldge Project · 9 November 2021
This dataset contains a summary of information about known public installations of Open Journal Systems, Open Monograph Press, and Open Preprint Systems.
15 December 2008
This dissertation addresses a specific aspect of the broad area of communication systems used among researchers. This research has undertaken to establish a broader view of the communication practices of …
Plos One · 10 June 2015
The consolidation of the scientific publishing industry has been the topic of much debate within and outside the scientific community, especially in relation to major publishers’ high profit margins. However, …
SSP: Society for Scholarly Publishing · 30 October 2023
We all know the journals market has rapidly consolidated over recent years. But where's the data? I set out to find some numbers to put behind the common sense.
PKP: Public Knoweldge Project · 20 December 2022
By analyzing 25,671 journals largely absent from common journal counts, as well as Web of Science and Scopus, this study demonstrates that scholarly communication is more of a global endeavor …
Cabell's The Source · 20 April 2020
What is the black market in predatory publishing worth each year? No satisfactory estimate has yet been produced, so Simon Linacre has decided to grab the back of an envelope …
23 January 2024
In October 2023 I had the privilege to talk at the Nerd Nite in Christchurch. This event series operates at the intersection of comedy, popular culture and science. I talked …
Government of Canada · 2015
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) ("the Agencies") …
SSP: Society for Scholarly Publishing · 16 February 2023
Mark Huskisson looks at the open source tools enabling a world of scholarly communication that is more broadly global, diverse, and inclusive than is perhaps recognized.
15 November 1995
A thesis that takes an historical look at journals and then asks what's so special about electronic journals. Includes a look at the serials crisis, the 'information explosion', quality control, …
PubMed Central · 29 September 2015
Objectives: To assess whether reports from reviewers recommended by authors show a bias in quality and recommendation for editorial decision, compared with reviewers suggested by other parties, and whether reviewer …
12 February 2024
Two years ago, I started a journey into academic publishing. I imagined using a reputation system to replace the journals with crowd sourcing. The reputation system would match reviewers to …
Crossref · 24 January 2024
Digital preservation underpins the persistence of scholarly links and citations through the digital object identifier (DOI) system. We do not currently know, at scale, the extent to which articles assigned …
PubMed Central · 3 June 2016
While Elizabeth Barrett Browning counted 25 ways in which she loves her husband in her poem, “How Do I Love Thee? Let me Count the Ways,” we identified only eight …
2023
The SciELO Program was created in the late 1990s when the idea of free access to scholarly content began to gain momentum, even before the term “open access” had been …
Swinburne University of Technology · 8 January 2018
Public policy relies on diverse forms and types of information and communication, both traditional publications and a myriad of other documents and resources including reports, briefings, legislation, discussion papers, submissions …
arXiv · 7 February 2024
Citations are widely considered in scientists' evaluation. As such, scientists may be incentivized to inflate their citation counts. While previous literature has examined self-citations and citation cartels, it remains unclear …
The White House · 5 August 2022 English
This memorandum provides policy guidance to federal agencies with research and development expenditures on updating their public access policies. In accordance with this memorandum, OSTP recommends that federal agencies, to …
The The Strain on Scientific Publishing project was run by Mark A Hanson, Pablo Gómez Barreiro, Paolo Crosetto and Dan Brockington. The project produced a paper and repository for its …
OSI: Open Scholarship Initiative · 15 February 2021 English
The path from ideas to facts in research
University of Cambridge · 6 December 2017
Looking at different open access policies it becomes clear that the institutions and funders behind them ‘believe’ that open access will benefit research and society. With the publication of the …
Government of Canada · 4 July 2023
Canada's federal research granting agencies – the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research …
OSTP: Office of Science and Technology Policy · 22 February 2013 English
Issued by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), this 2013 Memorandum directed all federal departments and agencies (agencies) with more than $100 million in annual research …