Open Café

User icon Toby Green
2 February 2024
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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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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 …


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 …


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 …


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 …


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 …