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Guide for Authors Complying with U.S. Federal Agency Public Access and Publisher Policies - SPARC

Guide for Authors Complying with U.S. Federal Agency Public Access and Publisher Policies - SPARC https://sparcopen.org/our-work/guide-for-authors-complying-with-policies/

For students looking to reduce textbook expenses this fall, see our guide http://bit.ly/2-expensive #OER #VirginiaTech #Textbooks

Previous work has suggested journal rank as a major associate of irreproducibility (Brembs et al., 2013), and that high-impact journals favour authors from leading institutions (Kulal et al., 2025). Our study highlights how university ranking is among the most striking correlates of irreproducibility. Taken together, the cause and effect relationship at play here may be driven most by factors associated with institutional prestige, such as trust among networks of colleagues that act as editors and reviewers, leading to greater acceptance rates at high-impact journals. Importantly, our results suggest this greater acceptance does not strictly reflect a high quality of the work being published, but rather a willingness to trust irreproducible work more frequently if it comes from a prestigious institute.

The killer quote! Prestigious institutions and prestigious journals drive irreproducibility in the life sciences - well, at least in this particular sample.

#reproducibility #impactfactor

And yet another one in the ever increasing list of analyses showing that top journals are bad for science:

"Thus, our analysis show major claims published in low-impact journals are significantly more likely to be reproducible than major claims published in trophy journals. " […]

Launch of Practical Guide for Responsible Research Assessment Reform | DORA https://sfdora.org/launch-of-practical-guide-for-responsible-research-assessment-reform/

Blog entry: Why I work in the open.

I’ve long worked in the open, overwhelmingly for one reason: it increases enormously the surface area for success. That might mean thinking out loud on social media, documenting ideas as blog entries, or publishing software as open source. Here are some of […]

@g3om4c The generic email is scholar-support@google.com (not that they have ever responded)

I'm starting a #Mastodon thread on the new #Trump administration's actions and positions on #OpenAccess to research.

I posted frequently about the actions of his first administration. But I did it on #Twitter / #X, which I no longer use.

As background to this new Mastodon thread, see my […]

Textbooks too expensive this semester? Our flyer for Spring 2025 is here: https://bit.ly/2-expensive #OER #OpenTextbooks #VirginiaTech

I can only feature 60 or so works in my #PublicDomainDayCountdown to 2025, but #HathiTrust will open more than 76,000 volumes to US readers in January, and over 60,000 volumes to readers outside the US. Find out more about what's in store here […]

Ana María Cetto "thinks #LatinAmerica could…serve as a model for the Global North on #OpenAccess publishing]. This would require a change in mentality and #infrastructure, so #universities would take on the work of scientific publishing instead of #commercial #publishers. If universities in […]

Nice outline of the corporate capture of the academic workflow:

"use Scopus, to find articles [..] take notes with Mendeley [...] have the grant proposal reviewed suing SciVal [...] discuss work on SSRN [..] publish in a journal where others find the article using using Scopus [...] article in […]

The US Dept of Energy (#DOE) just released the final version of its new #OpenAccess policy to comply with the #NelsonMemo. It's the first federal agency to do so.
https://www.directives.doe.gov/directives-documents/200-series/0241.1-border-c/@@images/file

Also see the policy FAQ […]

Elsevier’s stranglehold on academia: How publishers get rich off our data https://ukrant.nl/magazine/elseviers-stranglehold-on-academia-how-publishers-get-rich-from-our-data/?lang=en

New study: "We find that the early release of a publication as a #preprint correlates with a significant positive citation advantage of about 20.2% (±.7) on average. We also find that sharing #data in an online #repository correlates with a smaller yet still positive citation advantage of 4.3% […]

Open Access Week is coming up soon! Check out events at Virginia Tech Oct. 21-23 https://guides.lib.vt.edu/oa/week #OAWeek #OpenAccessWeek #OpenAccess #OpenData #OER #VirginiaTech

#arXiv (@arXiv) in 2023:
https://info.arxiv.org/about/reports/2023_arXiv_annual_report.pdf

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New article by yours truly on U.S. government authors, the public domain, and academic journal articles https://doi.org/10.17161/jcel.v7i2.19857 #OpenAccess #PublicDomain #Copyright #AcademicJournals

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Kudos to #SPARC for its excellent comments on the draft upgrade to the #NIH #OpenAccess policy.
https://sparcopen.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/NIH-Policy-RFI-SPARC-Response.pdf

"We encourage the agency to clearly communicate…that there is a no-cost compliance option…We…hear from our […]

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This article in Nature Food is in the U.S. public domain, but is it freely available in the U.S.? No, of course not https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-024-00961-8 #paywall #publicdomain #OpenAccess