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Plan S in Latin America: a Precautionary Note
Plan S in Latin America: A precautionary note Humberto Debat1 & Dominique Babini2 1Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (IPAVE-CIAP-INTA), Argentina, ORCID id: 0000-0003-3056-3739, [email protected] 2Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO), Argentina. ORCID id: 0000-0002- 5752-7060, [email protected] Latin America has historically led a firm and rising Open Access movement and represents the worldwide region with larger adoption of Open Access practices. Argentina has recently expressed its commitment to join Plan S, an initiative from a European consortium of research funders oriented to mandate Open Access publishing of scientific outputs. Here we suggest that the potential adhesion of Argentina or other Latin American nations to Plan S, even in its recently revised version, ignores the reality and tradition of Latin American Open Access publishing, and has still to demonstrate that it will encourage at a regional and global level the advancement of non-commercial Open Access initiatives. Plan S is an initiative from a European consortium of research funders, with the intention of becoming international, oriented to mandate Open Access publishing of research outputs funded by public or private grants, starting from 2021. Launched in September 2018 and revised in May 2019, the plan supported by the so-called cOAlition S involves 10 principles directed to achieve scholarly publishing in “Open Access Journals, Open Access Platforms, or made immediately available through Open Access Repositories without embargo” [1]. cOAlition S, coordinated by Science Europe and comprising 16 national research funders, three charitable foundations and the European Research Council, has pledged to coordinately implement the 10 principles of Plan S in 2021. -
Google Apps: an Introduction to Docs, Scholar, and Maps
[Not for Circulation] Google Apps: An Introduction to Docs, Scholar, and Maps This document provides an introduction to using three Google Applications: Google Docs, Google Scholar, and Google Maps. Each application is free to use, some just simply require the creation of a Google Account, also at no charge. Creating a Google Account To create a Google Account, 1. Go to http://www.google.com/. 2. At the top of the screen, select “Gmail”. 3. On the Gmail homepage, click on the right of the screen on the button that is labeled “Create an account”. 4. In order to create an account, you will be asked to fill out information, including choosing a Login name which will serve as your [email protected], as well as a password. After completing all the information, click “I accept. Create my account.” at the bottom of the page. 5. After you successfully fill out all required information, your account will be created. Click on the “Show me my account” button which will direct you to your Gmail homepage. Google Docs Now that you have an account created with Google, you are able to begin working with Google Docs. Google Docs is an application that allows the creation and sharing of documents, spreadsheets, presentations, forms, and drawings online. Users can collaborate with others to make changes to the same document. 1. Type in the address www.docs.google.com, or go to Google’s homepage, http://www. google.com, click the more drop down tab at the top, and then click Documents. Information Technology Services, UIS 1 [Not for Circulation] 2. -
MICHAEL SWETNAM ALAN MOGHISSI, Phd ALAN LESHNER, Phd HEATHER JOSEPH January 22, 2014
SEMINAR REPORT The Economics of Open Access: International and Domestic Implications Featured Speakers MICHAEL SWETNAM ALAN MOGHISSI, PhD ALAN LESHNER, PhD HEATHER JOSEPH January 22, 2014 C IN MA ST O IT T B U O T POTOMAC INSTITUTE FOR P E POLICY STUDIES F O R G 901 N. Stuart St. Suite 200 S P IE O D Arlington, VA 22203 LICY STU The Potomac Institute for Policy Studies gratefully acknowledge par- ticipants’ contributions included in this event report. Please note that the transcript has been edited for publication. The Institute and Potomac Institute Press cannot assume responsibil- ity for the validity of all materials or the consequences of their use; the view and opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies or Potomac Institute Press. Copyright © 2014 Potomac Institute for Policy Studies 901 N. Stuart St, Suite 200 Arlington, VA, 22203 www.potomacinstitute.org Telephone: 703.525.0770; Fax: 703.525.0299 Email: [email protected] POTOMAC INSTITUTE PRESS TABLE OF CONTENTS CReST 4 AGENDA 5 OPENING REMARKS 6 INTRODUCTION 8 PANEL TRANSCRIPT 9 OPEN DISCUSSION TRANSCRIPT 19 SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES 40 POTOMAC INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES 45 CReST The Center for Revolutionary Scientific Thought (CReST) at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies brings together individuals from a variety of backgrounds to enable a comprehensive outlook of science and technology (S&T) futures from academic and policy perspectives. CReST intends to: 1) develop new ideas, 2) formulate strategies on how to achieve revolutionary gains in S&T, 3) provide a discussion forum to address political, ethical, legal and social issues related to S&T, and 4) inform the public and policymakers about the most pressing issues and concerns regarding the future of S&T. -
Is Sci-Hub Increasing Visibility of Indian Research Papers? an Analytical Evaluation Vivek Kumar Singh1,*, Satya Swarup Srichandan1, Sujit Bhattacharya2
Journal of Scientometric Res. 2021; 10(1):130-134 http://www.jscires.org Perspective Paper Is Sci-Hub Increasing Visibility of Indian Research Papers? An Analytical Evaluation Vivek Kumar Singh1,*, Satya Swarup Srichandan1, Sujit Bhattacharya2 1Department of Computer Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, INDIA. 2CSIR-National Institute of Science Technology and Development Studies, New Delhi, INDIA. ABSTRACT Sci-Hub, founded by Alexandra Elbakyan in 2011 in Kazakhstan has, over the years, Correspondence emerged as a very popular source for researchers to download scientific papers. It is Vivek Kumar Singh believed that Sci-Hub contains more than 76 million academic articles. However, recently Department of Computer Science, three foreign academic publishers (Elsevier, Wiley and American Chemical Society) have Banaras Hindu University, filed a lawsuit against Sci-Hub and LibGen before the Delhi High Court and prayed for Varanasi-221005, INDIA. complete blocking these websites in India. It is in this context, that this paper attempts to Email id: [email protected] find out how many Indian research papers are available in Sci-Hub and who downloads them. The citation advantage of Indian research papers available on Sci-Hub is analysed, Received: 16-03-2021 with results confirming that such an advantage do exist. Revised: 29-03-2021 Accepted: 25-04-2021 Keywords: Indian Research, Indian Science, Black Open Access, Open Access, Sci-Hub. DOI: 10.5530/jscires.10.1.16 INTRODUCTION access publishing of their research output, and at the same time encouraging their researchers to publish in openly Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) has become one accessible forms. -
PATHWAYS to OPEN ACCESS University of California Libraries
University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc. Libraries at University of Nebraska-Lincoln 2-27-2018 PATHWAYS TO OPEN ACCESS University of California Libraries Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/scholcom Part of the Intellectual Property Law Commons, Scholarly Communication Commons, and the Scholarly Publishing Commons University of California Libraries, "PATHWAYS TO OPEN ACCESS" (2018). Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.. 74. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/scholcom/74 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Libraries at University of Nebraska-Lincoln at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc. by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. PATHWAYS TO OPEN ACCESS Approved 27 February 2018 Prepared by the University of California Libraries PATHWAYS TO OPEN ACCESS Table of Contents Introduction 1 Definitions 1 Approaches & Strategies 2 Green OA 2 Gold OA, APC-based 12 Gold OA, Non-APC Funded 23 Universal Strategies 28 Possible Next Steps 35 Green OA 35 Gold OA, APC-based 36 Gold OA, Non-APC-based 37 Universal Strategies 38 Selected Bibliography 40 INTRODUCTION Pursuant to the University of California (UC) Council of University Librarian’s (CoUL)1 3 August 2017 charge, this Pathways to OA Working Group2 has identified the current universe of Open Access (OA) approaches, and has analyzed the suite of strategies available for effectuating those approaches. Each approach described within this Pathways document offers unique and, in some cases, overlapping challenges, opportunities, and room for experimentation. -
EPIC Google FTC Complaint
Before the Federal Trade Commission Washington, DC 20580 In the Matter of ) ) Google, Inc. and ) Cloud Computing Services ) ________________________________ ) Complaint and Request for Injunction, Request for Investigation and for Other Relief SUMMARY OF COMPLAINT 1. This complaint concerns privacy and security risks associated with the provision of “Cloud Computing Services” by Google, Inc. to American consumers, businesses, and federal agencies of the United States government. Recent reports indicate that Google does not adequately safeguard the confidential information that it obtains. Given the previous opinions of the Federal Trade Commission regarding the obligation of service providers to ensure security, EPIC hereby petitions the Federal Trade Commission to open an investigation into Google’s Cloud Computing Services, to determine the adequacy of the privacy and security safeguards, to assess the representations made by the firm regarding these services, to determine whether the firm has engaged in unfair and/or deceptive trade practices, and to take any such measures as are necessary, including to enjoin Google from offering such services until safeguards are verifiably established. Such action by the Commission is necessary to ensure the safety and security of information submitted to Google by American consumers, American businesses, and American federal agencies. PARTIES 1. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (“EPIC”) is a public interest research organization incorporated in Washington, DC. EPIC’s activities include the review of government and private sector policies and practices to determine their impact on the privacy interests of the American public. Among its other activities, EPIC initiated the complaint to the FTC regarding Microsoft Passport in which the Commission subsequently required Microsoft to implement a comprehensive information security program for 1 Passport and similar services.1 EPIC also filed the complaint with the Commission regarding databroker ChoicePoint, Inc. -
Sci-Hub Provides Access to Nearly All Scholarly Literature
Sci-Hub provides access to nearly all scholarly literature A DOI-citable version of this manuscript is available at https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3100. This manuscript was automatically generated from greenelab/scihub-manuscript@51678a7 on October 12, 2017. Submit feedback on the manuscript at git.io/v7feh or on the analyses at git.io/v7fvJ. Authors • Daniel S. Himmelstein 0000-0002-3012-7446 · dhimmel · dhimmel Department of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania · Funded by GBMF4552 • Ariel Rodriguez Romero 0000-0003-2290-4927 · arielsvn · arielswn Bidwise, Inc • Stephen Reid McLaughlin 0000-0002-9888-3168 · stevemclaugh · SteveMcLaugh School of Information, University of Texas at Austin • Bastian Greshake Tzovaras 0000-0002-9925-9623 · gedankenstuecke · gedankenstuecke Department of Applied Bioinformatics, Institute of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Goethe University Frankfurt • Casey S. Greene 0000-0001-8713-9213 · cgreene · GreeneScientist Department of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania · Funded by GBMF4552 PeerJ Preprints | https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3100v2 | CC BY 4.0 Open Access | rec: 12 Oct 2017, publ: 12 Oct 2017 Abstract The website Sci-Hub provides access to scholarly literature via full text PDF downloads. The site enables users to access articles that would otherwise be paywalled. Since its creation in 2011, Sci- Hub has grown rapidly in popularity. However, until now, the extent of Sci-Hub’s coverage was unclear. As of March 2017, we find that Sci-Hub’s database contains 68.9% of all 81.6 million scholarly articles, which rises to 85.2% for those published in toll access journals. -
Enabling Research Through Open Access Policies
THE SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING & ACADEMIC RESOURCES COALITION 21 Dupont Circle NW, Suite 800 Washington, DC 20036 (202) 296-2296 www.arl.org/sparc Enabling Research through Open Access Policies Heather Joseph, Executive Director SPARC Washington, DC USA The Issue • Funders invest in research with the expectation that it will result in improvements to the public good. • They increasingly recognize that dissemination is an essential component of the research process. • Research is cumulative - it advances through sharing results. The value of an investment in research is maximized only through use of its findings. www.arl.org/sparc 2 The Issue • Too often, the research results (either publicly or privately funded ) are simply not widely available to the community of potential users. • Internet provides new opportunity to bring information broader audience at virtually no marginal cost, and use it new, innovative ways. Result: Call for new framework designed to allow research results to be more easily accessed and used. www.arl.org/sparc 3 Without Open Access But Article Isn’t Available….. Usability is Key “By open access, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full text of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software or use them for any other lawful purpose…” - The Budapest Open Access Initiative www.arl.org/sparc 6 Greater Access is a Policy Concern “Governments would boost innovation and get a better return on their investment in publicly funded research by making research findings more widely available…. -
The Envisioning a World Beyond Apcs/Bpcs International Symposium Was Held at the University of Kansas on November 17 & 18, 2016
The Envisioning a World Beyond APCs/BPCs international symposium was held at the University of Kansas on November 17 & 18, 2016. More information, including recordings of the opening session and participant biographies is available at https://openaccess.ku.edu/symposium. Apollo 13 Assignment: As a culminating component of the Envisioning a World Beyond APCs/BPCs international symposium, on the morning of Friday, Nov. 18, participants were asked to form teams and then develop a proposal for a publishing regime that will: ● present a solution that is free for readers and for authors; ● work in the local context and create partnerships that incorporate a variety of global situations, including those individuals and groups marginalized by historical, political, and economic power structures; ● address barriers to or opportunities for authors (i.e., the focus should be on the creators of the work, rather thans on the producers or user); ● present an agenda for action; ● envision a 5- to 10-year transition that includes universities as the major stakeholder in a knowledge production and sharing environment that will benefit all readers and authors. The following are three proposals that came out of the Friday morning session (which were further developed in the weeks immediately following the symposium). Proposal 1: Title Global Knowledge Commons 2025 Team Members Kathleen Shearer, Ivy Anderson, Jean Claude Guédon, Heather Joseph, Rebecca Kennison, David Shulenburger Vision Academic institutions and research organizations are the foundation of a global knowledge commons in which institutions collect the content created by their 1 communities, make it openly available, and connect globally through the adoption of common standards. -
The Informal Sector and Economic Growth of South Africa and Nigeria: a Comparative Systematic Review
Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity Review The Informal Sector and Economic Growth of South Africa and Nigeria: A Comparative Systematic Review Ernest Etim and Olawande Daramola * Department of Information Technology, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, P.O. Box 652, South Africa; [email protected] * Correspondence: [email protected] Received: 17 August 2020; Accepted: 10 October 2020; Published: 6 November 2020 Abstract: The informal sector is an integral part of several sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries and plays a key role in the economic growth of these countries. This article used a comparative systematic review to explore the factors that act as drivers to informality in South Africa (SA) and Nigeria, the challenges that impede the growth dynamics of the informal sector, the dominant subsectors, and policy initiatives targeting informal sector providers. A systematic search of Google Scholar, Scopus, ResearchGate was performed together with secondary data collated from grey literature. Using Boolean string search protocols facilitated the elucidation of research questions (RQs) raised in this study. An inclusion and exclusion criteria became necessary for rigour, comprehensiveness and limitation of publication bias. The data collated from thirty-one (31) primary studies (17 for SA and 14 for Nigeria) revealed that unemployment, income disparity among citizens, excessive tax burdens, excessive bureaucratic hurdles from government, inflationary tendencies, poor corruption control, GDP per capita, and lack of social protection survival tendencies all act as drivers to the informal sector in SA and Nigeria. Several challenges are given for both economies and policy incentives that might help sustain and improve the informal sector in these two countries. -
Will Sci-Hub Kill the Open Access Citation Advantage and (At Least for Now) Save Toll Access Journals?
Will Sci-Hub Kill the Open Access Citation Advantage and (at least for now) Save Toll Access Journals? David W. Lewis October 2016 © 2016 David W. Lewis. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Introduction It is a generally accepted fact that open access journal articles enjoy a citation advantage.1 This citation advantage results from the fact that open access journal articles are available to everyone in the word with an Internet collection. Thus, anyone with an interest in the work can find it and use it easily with no out-of-pocket cost. This use leads to citations. Articles in toll access journals on the other hand, are locked behind paywalls and are only available to those associated with institutions who can afford the subscription costs, or who are willing and able to purchase individual articles for $30 or more. There has always been some slippage in the toll access journal system because of informal sharing of articles. Authors will usually send copies of their work to those who ask and sometime post them on their websites even when this is not allowable under publisher’s agreements. Stevan Harnad and his colleagues proposed making this type of author sharing a standard semi-automated feature for closed articles in institutional repositories.2 The hashtag #ICanHazPDF can be used to broadcast a request for an article that an individual does not have access to.3 Increasingly, toll access articles are required by funder mandates to be made publically available, though usually after an embargo period. -
Download Full White Paper
Open Access White Paper University of Oregon SENATE SUB-COMMITTEE ON OPEN ACCESS I. Executive Summary II. Introduction a. Definition and History of the Open Access Movement b. History of Open Access at the University of Oregon c. The Senate Subcommittee on Open Access at the University of Oregon III. Overview of Current Open Access Trends and Practices a. Open Access Formats b. Advantages and Challenges of the Open Access Approach IV. OA in the Process of Research & Dissemination of Scholarly Works at UO a. A Summary of Current Circumstances b. Moving Towards Transformative Agreements c. Open Access Publishing at UO V. Advancing Open Access at the University of Oregon and Beyond a. Barriers to Moving Forward with OA b. Suggestions for Local Action at UO 1 Executive Summary The state of global scholarly communications has evolved rapidly over the last two decades, as libraries, funders and some publishers have sought to hasten the spread of more open practices for the dissemination of results in scholarly research worldwide. These practices have become collectively known as Open Access (OA), defined as "the free, immediate, online availability of research articles combined with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment." The aim of this report — the Open Access White Paper by the Senate Subcommittee on Open Access at the University of Oregon — is to review the factors that have precipitated these recent changes and to explain their relevance for members of the University of Oregon community. Open Access History and Trends Recently, the OA movement has gained momentum as academic institutions around the globe have begun negotiating and signing creative, new agreements with for-profit commercial publishers, and as innovations to the business models for disseminating scholarly research have become more widely adopted.