Tag Archives: Open-access

Finally some sense from the US government. According to this White House news release, research funded by the government must be available to the public without cost or delay. In particular, the current policy of a one year embargo on … Continue reading →

Paul Graham remarks on SciHub and how broken our current system is that everyone’s advice for getting research results is to use a pirate site. I was talking to a high school student interested in a certain technology and I … Continue reading →

As Irreal old-timers know, I am interested in and a supporter of open access. The academic publishing industry is deeply exploitive of everyone they deal with. That includes members of the public who provide financial support for much of the … Continue reading →

For those of you, like me, interested in open access, there’s more good news. There’s good evidence that the scales are finally tipping to the side of open access. If things continue, we could soon see open access considered the … Continue reading →

The UK is already a leader in achieving open access for journal articles but have recently taken a further step. The UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), a major funder of UK research, has announced that starting in April 2022, researchers … Continue reading →

The BBC is reporting that the UK police—actually The City of London’s Intellectual Property Crime Unit—is warning students not to use Sci-Hub. You might assume, as I did, that their warning said something along the lines of, “Using the site … Continue reading →

I’ve written several times about Sci-Hub and the moral quandary it presents for some of us. On the one hand it’s easy to say that what they’re doing is stealing and that it should be stopped. On the other hand, … Continue reading →

If you’ve been around for a while, you know that I’m not a fan of academic journal publishers and their rent seeking. Happily, those days are years behind me now but for thousands of academics the process and its indignities … Continue reading →

Via Paul Graham he have this interesting factoid: … articles downloaded from Sci-hub were cited 1.72 times more than papers not downloaded from Sci-hub and that the number of downloads from Sci-hub was a robust predictor of future citations https://t.co/LiX0Gs555b … Continue reading →

MIT has just ended negotiations with Elsevier on a new journals contract. Many institutions are doing that but MIT and the University of California, which also ended negotiations, are in the top tier of research institutions in the US and … Continue reading →