Jean-Claude @jcdrg.bsky.social · 17/05/2026*I come back to the "movement" I have been involved with open access since my particpation at the BOAI meetin in 2001. I have not seen the smallest trace of a PRC movement. 000
Jean-Claude @jcdrg.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Well, if it is only a slightly different form... A researcher facing an article that is important for his/her work, will certainly want to take advantage of comments or, if they exist, peer review reports. 000
Jean-Claude @jcdrg.bsky.social · 17/05/2026First sentence is too vague. Can't comment. Equity? Which kind of equity? Is PRC a movement? What is working? It is hard to comment such a statement. 100
Jean-Claude @jcdrg.bsky.social · 17/05/2026If you want change, you want to move away from the "what is" now. If users do not read comments or even peer review reports, they obviously do not do the work they should do. Researcher sensitivities are their problem, not the funders'. Recognition over mandates???? I don't get it. 100
Jean-Claude @jcdrg.bsky.social · 17/05/2026First a contradiction here: they widen but they don't? Then, what would "really expanding" translate into? The "QC" aspect: PRC should not go beyond making sure that the document made public is a serious research statement. Quality is best determined by relevant communities 100
Jean-Claude @jcdrg.bsky.social · 17/05/2026The point of Stern and O'Shea, I believe, is to use the expression "peer review" to mean something very different from what journals do with this process right now. 000
Jean-Claude @jcdrg.bsky.social · 17/05/2026The whole point of PRC is not peer review; it is to make documents evolve in such a way that any user can assess how well and thoroughly it has been discussed, criticized, commented upon, etc. The binary madness -publish or not publish - of peere review is avoided. 100
Jean-Claude @jcdrg.bsky.social · 16/05/2026I have long wondered what sustainability means. In his Scholarly Kitchen piece, Coates approvingly quotes Poynder about scholar-led projects not being sustainable because they rely on money from libraries and funders. So does Elsevier, and Springer, and Wiley, and... :-) 000
Jean-Claude @jcdrg.bsky.social · 14/05/2026I have always wondered what sustainability means. In a sense, it obviously connotes some sense of permanence. In his Scholarly Kitchen, Coates approvingly quotes Poynder about scholar-led projects not being sustainable because they rely on money from libraries and funders. So does Elsevier... :-) 010
Jean-Claude @jcdrg.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Excellent news. Thank you, Jeroen. And seeing OPERAS involved is also a very good piece of news. Now, if funding agencies could converge on both diamond and PRC and find ways to support them, then Bob's our uncle!!!! 010
Jean-Claude @jcdrg.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Any news on this? Interviews were supposed to be in February, according to the site. 100
Jean-Claude @jcdrg.bsky.social · 02/05/2026What is happening at cOAlition S? Any news about a potential new executive Director to follow Johan Rooryck? Any news about a new home for the secretariat? The site remains very silent... This is worrisome. 100
Jean-Claude @jcdrg.bsky.social · 14/07/2025So long as we keep the central "currency" - i.e. the impact factor - as the central value unit, we are caught in the trap that was set up in the '80s and early '90s. 000
Jean-Claude @jcdrg.bsky.social · 14/07/2025They worked like hell to set up a citation system that would not exclude them and they then tried to join the Garfield-inspired JIF device. They never really succeeded. They remained in a kind of Clarivate purgatory and they have stayed there ever since. (see next). 100
Jean-Claude @jcdrg.bsky.social · 14/07/2025I am going to suggest one further step: not only do researchers should organize to evaluate, but they should define what value is, and do it in their terms. This means multi-dimensional and diverse evaluation system. My concern is fed by the history of what happened to SciELO (see next). 100
Jean-Claude @jcdrg.bsky.social · 22/04/2025Exactly! Research institutions to be precise. The fundamental point is that evaluation of research should be controlled by researchers self-organizing, and not publishers enrolling the help of researchers through editorial boards. 231
Jean-Claude @jcdrg.bsky.social · 22/04/2025When I read things as asinine as the letter to the journal "Chest" by the DC attorney general, Edward Robert Martin Jr., I fear for all my sane friends in the US and I am ever so glad to live in Canada. Why have so many Americans gone mad, very mad? Canada is not for sale, by the way. 470
Jean-Claude @jcdrg.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Charlie Chaplin buttonholed Hitler quite effectively with his film, the "Great Dictator". Who is going to achieve the same result with a new film called "The Great 'President'". 120
Jean-Claude @jcdrg.bsky.social · 19/01/2025The MIT experience led by Chris Bourg is one of the more interesting initiatives in the last few years. It promises to free money for other forms of scholarly publishing. It also refocuses libraries squarely on the issue of price/actual_use and not price/title - the Big Deal fallacy. Bravo! 140
Reposted by Jean-ClaudeChris Bourg @mchris4duke.bsky.social · 17/01/2025Yep. We have been out of contract with Elsevier at MIT for 4.5 years now, at substantial savings to the Institute. Happy to share our experience with any library interested in following suit. 918671
Reposted by Jean-ClaudeSamuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 19/01/2025Thinking about this figure more, it's remarkable how publishers were willing to accept significantly less revenue per paper, and publish a ton more of them, all to avoid green open access which they saw as a loss of their monopoly control over content (and clearly less of a direct revenue threat). 196
Jean-Claude @jcdrg.bsky.social · 19/01/2025And Canadian, and US, and German, and French, and ... etc Yes. yes. 000
Reposted by Jean-Claudeploum @ploum.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 11/01/2025Aaron Swartz, 8 novembre 1986 - 11 janvier 2013. Rest in Power buddy! (drawing by @brunoleyval ) 1626
Reposted by Jean-ClaudeBudapest Open Access Initiative @boaiopen.bsky.social · 07/01/2025The U of Surrey cancelled its #ReadAndPublish agreement with #Elsevier. Our BOAI20 Recs highlight that "Read-and-publish agreements are unsustainable, by paying more than necessary and putting short-term growth ahead of long-term growth." www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u... 043
Jean-Claude @jcdrg.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Tout à fait d'accord. Il faut aussi donner quelques petites leçons à ce malotru.🤩 000
Jean-Claude @jcdrg.bsky.social · 06/01/2025The counter-revolution in scientific publishing, immediately after WWII (Maxwell, Elsevier, etc.), is simple: from selling services to researcher communities, publishers became owners and evaluators of research results. Imagine a science where labs are evaluated by firms selling you test tubes. 000
Reposted by Jean-ClaudeMarin Dacos @marind.eurosky.social · 27/12/2024Elon Musk qui attaque wikipedia et encourage à ne pas la financer. Ca confirme qu'il faut que je le fasse encore cette année. Avec enthousiasme. 154
Reposted by Jean-ClaudeJoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 29/12/2024This is so spot-on it’s scary. 11345508714309
Reposted by Jean-ClaudePeter Suber @petersuber.bsky.social · 18/12/2024The #NIH (National Institutes of Health) just released the final version of its new #OpenAccess policy to comply with the #OSTP #NelsonMemo. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...federalregister.govThe National Institutes of Health Public Access PolicyThe 2024 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy implements additional steps to accelerate free public access to scholarly publications resulting from the research that NIH supports, ... 077
Jean-Claude @jcdrg.bsky.social · 23/12/2024And I hate the use of citation stats for anything other than the sociology of scientific networks. Stats, as numbers, lead to rankings and hyper-competition. Hyper-competition is just the old tool of dividing to reign. Citation stats, after 1970, became tools of publishers, not of researchers. 000
Reposted by Jean-ClaudeMartin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 23/12/2024I hate the perennial proposal, in REF and elsewhere, to replace all evaluation exercises with pure citation stats. This really discriminates against academics who do more than write. Example: so many papers "cite" the "Open Library of Humanities", but not the published research that informed it. 1134
Reposted by Jean-ClaudeRex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 15/12/2024As promised: "A letter from polio in support of RFK Jr., co-signed by natural selection." You're welcome. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...usatoday.comA letter from polio in support of RFK Jr., co-signed by natural selection | OpinionA letter from the highly contagious viral disease polio, written to members of the U.S. Senate in support of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s confirmation. 1121578
Jean-Claude @jcdrg.bsky.social · 19/12/2024To read about eLife and Clarivate, see: www.nature.com/articles/d41... but keep in mind that Nature is part of a publicly-traded company. The analysis has to be weighed very carefully.nature.comPioneering journal eLife faces major test after loss of impact factorThe open-access title’s bold publishing model has bought long-bubbling conflicts to the fore. 010
Jean-Claude @jcdrg.bsky.social · 19/12/2024The battle between eLife and Clarivate is crucial. If Clarivate wins, the impact factor will be vindicated once more. And the IF is the keystone of the commercial structure of scholarly journals. But if eLife demonstrates what a sham the IF is, then Clarivate will have lost a crucial battle. 031
Reposted by Jean-ClaudeHeather Joseph @hjoseph.bsky.social · 05/12/2024This is a *really* disappointing outcome…these funds could be used to support local, community driven research communication efforts rather than continuing to feed commercial profits. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...blogs.lse.ac.ukIndia’s One Nation One Subscription deal enriches publishers and benefits fewContrary to its intended goals of reducing subscription costs and improving access to scientific literature in India, Muthu Madhan argues the much-hyped One Nation One Subscription policy risks sig… 078
Reposted by Jean-ClaudeKora @qornik.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Great finale of the #DOASummit2024: the Toluca-Cape Town Declaration on Diamond Open Access has been introduced in 4 languages #equity #socialjustice #multilingualism #humanrights 012
