Open Café

User icon Toby Green
2 February 2024
38 items

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


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.


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 …


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 …


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 …


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 …


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, …


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") …