Open Update

In this week’s episode, we talk about journal transfers, google scholar's public access ticker, cookies on publisher sites, and more.

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Journal transfer trade

https://journaltransfer.issn.org/

Power gap, wealth gap, pay gap

https://www.aauw.org/app/uploads/2021/02/WPG-Power-Gap-at-Elite-Universities-2021-Study-2.pdf

Google Scholar public access

https://scholar.googleblog.com/2021/03/track-and-manage-your-public-access.html

Cookie blocking on publisher websites

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2777868

Researcher bill of rights

https://www.force11.org/article/call-community-input-researcher-bill-rights-and-principles

eLife partners with PREReview

https://elifesciences.org/for-the-press/3071bfea/elife-and-prereview-partner-to-promote-greater-diversity-in-peer-review

In this week's episode, we talk about the state of open access publications and the differences between preprints and published articles. We also reflect on the inequality in citation practices, and provide an update on the case against Sci-Hub in india, based on the latest interview with Alexandra Elbakyan.

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NWO ransomware attack

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/02/dutch-research-funding-agency-paralyzed-ransomware-attack-refuses-pay

https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/108032/malware/newcastle-university-doppelpaymer-ransomware.html

OA > closed access

https://www.dimensions.ai/blog/open-access-surpasses-subscription-publication-globally-for-the-first-time/

No differences preprints-publications

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.20.432090v1

No copy-paste in ebooks

https://blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/library/changes-to-permissions-for-pearson-e-books/

Interview Alexandra Elbakyan

https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/interview-alexandra-elbakyan-sci-hub-elsevier-academic-publishing-open-access/

http://bilimveaydinlanma.org/a-robin-hood-in-the-world-of-science-alexandra-elbakyan/

https://delhihighcourt.nic.in/dhc_case_status_oj_list.asp?pno=1019626

Citation inequality PNAS

https://www.pnas.org/content/118/7/e2012208118.abstract

The Open Update is a weekly digest on open science, released every Tuesday. In this episode we look at the continued streak of legal pursuits against Sci-Hub, the website that allows people to circumvent paywalls. We talk about last weeks hack of the Dutch research council and this weeks hack at the University of Amsterdam. We have our quick up-to-dates and finally I want to share with you some great software news.

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European Open Science Cloud consultation

https://www.eosc-hub.eu/news/have-your-say-two-eosc-hub-proposals

Sci-hub.se blocked in UK

https://torrentfreak.com/sci-hub-elsevier-and-springer-nature-obtain-uk-isp-blocking-order-210218/

Version of Record preferred

https://group.springernature.com/gp/group/media/press-releases/new-research-on-version-of-articles-researchers-prefer/18866902

University Amsterdam hacked

https://www.uva.nl/en/content/news/news/2021/02/auas-and-uva-target-of-cyber-attack.html

OJS 3.3

https://pkp.sfu.ca/2021/02/19/improving-usability-inclusivity-and-accessibility-in-3-3/

ACS signs DORA

https://axial.acs.org/2021/02/18/acs-publications-signs-dora/

Gender and geographical imbalances in editorial composition

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.15.431321v1

Guaranteed transitional funding at MIT

https://rise4mit.medium.com/rise-update-on-guaranteed-transitional-funding-211a2bd67ebc

Zotero iOS beta

https://www.zotero.org/iosbeta

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BOAI 19 years old

https://twitter.com/petersuber/status/1360944328814850049

PLOS publishes protocols

https://theplosblog.plos.org/2021/02/submit-your-lab-and-study-protocols-plos-one/

Open access agreement PLOS-MIT

https://libraries.mit.edu/news/libraries-develop/31742/

Wellcome Open Research anniversary

https://blog.wellcomeopenresearch.org/2021/02/08/wellcome-open-research-a-summary-of-year-4/

Author pays APCs, mostly

https://twitter.com/najkoja/status/1359449617956560896

Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure

https://blog.joss.theoj.org/2021/02/JOSS-POSI

Collabra publishes peer reviews

https://twitter.com/siminevazire/status/1361424706780372995?s=12

Archival trigger

https://clockss.org/2021/02/clockss-announces-the-trigger-of-the-journal-studium/

PRISMA guidelines

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0895435621000408?via%3Dihub

NWO hacked

https://www.nwo.nl/en/news/nwo-network-hacked

Angola decriminalizes same-sex relationships

https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/angola-just-decriminalised-same-sex-sexual-relationships/

300k users on OSF

https://twitter.com/osframework/status/1361355939580964866?s=12

https://osf.io/mn4t2

CO2 emissions for Zoom

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2020.105389

Unsettling Knowledge Inequities

https://twitter.com/KnowEquityLab/status/1359193065571893248

Banning Proctorio

https://www.baneproctoring.com/

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Fair dealing defence Sci-Hub in India

https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=Sci-Hub+Case+:+Founder+Elbakyan+Takes+%27Fair+Dealing%27+Defence;+Says+Academic+Journals+...&d=4705441792002641&mkt=en-GB&setlang=en-GB&w=wLnS6Ka34zdbybWZey2gESYh41ZPBdDo

APC study in BMJ

https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/11/2/e047107

#FundBlackScientists

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867421000118

LawArxiv statement

https://www.infodocket.com/2021/02/02/preprints-statement-on-why-lawarxiv-repository-is-no-longer-accepting-submissions/

Open science implementation requires support

https://hrbopenresearch.org/articles/3-56

Dryad-Zenodo partnership

https://t.co/ABE12nZFNt

COAR Notify Project

https://www.coar-repositories.org/news-updates/coar-launches-the-notify-project/

CORE-PubMed

https://research.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2021/02/03/core-and-pubmed-collaborate-for-further-full-text-dissemination/

Wikipedia Universal Code of Conduct

https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2021/02/02/wikipedia-embraces-first-of-its-kind-universal-code-of-conduct/

STM against Rights Retention

https://www.stm-assoc.org/rightsretentionstrategy/

cOAlition S responds to STM

https://www.coalition-s.org/blog/the-rights-retention-strategy-restores-long-standing-academic-freedoms/

Publishers sued for pricefixing ebooks

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/85499-big-five-publishers-now-defendants-in-e-book-price-fixing-suit.html

7 publishers join CLOCKSS

https://clockss.org/2021/02/clockss-announces-the-participation-of-seven-additional-publishers/

Internet Archive modern book collection

http://blog.archive.org/2021/02/03/internet-archives-modern-book-collection-now-tops-2-million-volumes/

https://twitter.com/internetarchive/status/1358090982189719552?s=20

Public Domain coloringbook

https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2020/03/free-colouring-book?fbclid=IwAR1499rnT_VkoEj1aejj9ci4I_3tW2V9BcXGTcU5lZtLasSbDfBWJSyTSGo

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NISO report on badges

https://www.niso.org/publications/rp-31-2021-badging

LawArxiv inactive

https://twitter.com/socpsychupdate/status/1354998471112019969

New preprint server: UnisaRxiv

https://blog.scienceopen.com/2021/01/unisarxiv/

Call for inquiry into ebook pricing

https://academicebookinvestigation.org/

Debt cancellation

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2021/01/28/large-debate-looms-over-canceling-parents-debt-student-loans

Editorial board member resigns over OA pilot

https://twitter.com/StephenEglen/status/1354753575575031809

German Reproducibility Network

https://reproducibilitynetwork.de/

Openjournals.nlhttps://www.nwo.nl/en/news/open-access-platform-dutch-academic-journals-launched

New member cOAlition S

https://www.coalition-s.org/fct-joins-coalition-s/

Chinese EQUATOR centre

https://www.equator-network.org/2021/01/26/launch-of-the-new-chinese-equator-centre/

PRISMA-S

https://systematicreviewsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13643-020-01542-z#Sec3

Open Science guide

https://online.ucpress.edu/collabra/article/7/1/18684/115927/Easing-Into-Open-Science-A-Guide-for-Graduate

Flagging potential misconduct

http://crystalprisonzone.blogspot.com/2021/01/i-tried-to-report-scientific-misconduct.html

Open Publishing Awards

https://coko.foundation/announcing-the-2021-open-publishing-awards/

CSS Virtual event Grants

https://eventfund.codeforscience.org/request-for-proposals/

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Wiley announces name change policy
https://www.wiley.com/network/the-wiley-network/new-author-name-change-policy-supports-a-more-inclusive-publishing-environment

Journal submissions should be gender neutral
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00109-9

Retirement or equal wages
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2021/01/18/oregon-says-professor-must-drop-her-pay-discrimination-claims-if-she-wants-retire#.YAWGqfoU16s.twitter

Max Planck Society PhD’s positive over Open Science https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frma.2020.586992

India  innovates on Open  https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210114/08351346051/free-access-to-academic-papers-everyone-india-government-proposes-one-nation-one-subscription-approach-as-part-major-shift-to.shtml

Registered Reports in Nature Scientific Reports https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-79467-9

EPMC refunded
http://blog.europepmc.org/2021/01/grant-renewal-new-funders-NWO-ZonMw.html?m=1

C19 Rapid Review Initiative requires open data
https://oaspa.org/data-deposition-required-for-all-c19-rapid-review-publishers/

Journal Checker Tool widget
https://journalcheckertool.org/widget

ARRIVE guidelines translated to 9 languages
https://nc3rs.org.uk/news/arrive-guidelines-2-0-now-available-six-languages

South Africa pays double for COVID vaccine
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/22/south-africa-paying-more-than-double-eu-price-for-oxford-astrazeneca-vaccine

Qualtrics IPO
https://news.crunchbase.com/news/qualtrics-sap-ipo-utah-tech-scene/

The Intercept’s guide to Zoom recordings
https://theintercept.com/2021/01/18/leak-zoom-meeting/

CrossRef 120+ million datadump
https://www.crossref.org/blog/new-public-data-file-120-million-metadata-records/

Elsevier citation data public
https://twitter.com/MsPhelps/status/1351921197559279619

RIOT Science Club schedule
https://twitter.com/riotscienceclub/status/1352534970242375680?s=12

metafor writes reports for you
https://twitter.com/dsquintana/status/1352324646817980416

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University of Cape Town launches open publishing platform

https://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/uct-launches-open-access-african-centric-research-platform-2021-01-12/rep_id:4136

SPARC Africa announces partnership with AFLIA

https://sparcopen.org/news/2021/sparc-africa-announces-new-partnership-with-aflia-to-expand-reach/

#crucialscihub response

https://twitter.com/brembs/status/1348623700501929986

SPARC updates Big Deal Knowledge Base

https://sparcopen.org/our-work/big-deal-knowledge-base/

CERN signs agreement with Elsevier

https://home.cern/news/announcement/cern/cern-and-elsevier-conclude-read-and-publish-agreement-start-2021

Author-pays not radical enough

https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:33781/

PLOS announces publish agreement with CRKN

https://theplosblog.plos.org/2021/01/plos-and-the-canadian-research-knowledge-network-announce-community-action-publishing-deal/

SpringerNature calls for Big Deals

https://group.springernature.com/gp/group/media/press-releases/springer-nature-ceo-calls-for-greater-collaboration/18757378

Research on author-pays waivers

https://insights.uksg.org/articles/10.1629/uksg.526/

Modern article costs $400 to publish

https://f1000research.com/articles/10-20

zbMATH open launched

http://www.fiz-karlsruhe.de/en/nachricht/neue-open-access-plattform-fuer-die-mathematik-geht-online

AAAS allows author self-archiving

https://www.coalition-s.org/coalition-s-welcomes-aaas-decision-to-support-the-sharing-of-aams/

Internet blockade in Uganda

https://netblocks.org/reports/social-media-and-messaging-platforms-restricted-in-uganda-ahead-of-general-election-XB7aaO87

Open Reviewers program

https://content.prereview.org/prereview-open-reviewers-pilot-announcement/

Peer reviews after rejection

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08989621.2020.1869547?af=R

64% of Jupyter Notebooks reproducible

https://blog.jetbrains.com/datalore/2020/12/17/we-downloaded-10-000-000-jupyter-notebooks-from-github-this-is-what-we-learned

Using Jupyter Notebooks

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42005-020-00403-4

Reimagine Research Culture Festival

https://wellcome.org/what-we-do/our-work/research-culture/reimagine-research-solutions-summit

blogdown v1.0

https://blog.rstudio.com/2021/01/18/blogdown-v1.0/

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Wiley acquires Hindawi

https://newsroom.wiley.com/press-releases/press-release-details/2021/Wiley-Announces-the-Acquisition-of-Hindawi/default.aspx

PNAS moves to Atypon

https://web.archive.org/web/20210111131048/https://www.pnas.org/page/updates#pnas-atypon-literatum

Wiley includes ads in front of PDFs of papers

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/rcm.8604

Google employees unionize

https://www.vice.com/en/article/3an5q9/google-workers-publicly-launch-union

Open letter concerning Transphobia in Philosophy

https://sites.google.com/view/trans-phil-letter/

https://www.praile.net/post/kathleen-stock-obe

CERN's new open data policy

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20201231/02234445977/seven-years-ago-cern-gave-open-access-huge-boost-now-doing-same-open-data.shtml

Open data indicates 2020 was warmest year on record

https://climate.copernicus.eu/2020-warmest-year-record-europe-globally-2020-ties-2016-warmest-year-recorded

GitHub allows access to users from Iran

https://github.blog/2021-01-05-advancing-developer-freedom-github-is-fully-available-in-iran/

Twitter bans Sci-Hub account

https://torrentfreak.com/sci-hub-founder-criticises-sudden-twitter-ban-over-over-counterfeit-content-210108/

Wellcome Trust updates open access policy

https://twitter.com/wellcometrust/status/1346414974521012225?s=12

Open Access Button launches ShareYourPaper.org

https://blog.openaccessbutton.org/shareyourpaper-org-for-libraries-out-now/

UCL apologizes for eugenic history

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2021/jan/ucl-makes-formal-public-apology-its-history-and-legacy-eugenics

Copyright restricts reuse of quality guidelines

http://jogh.org/documents/issue202002/jogh-10-0203107.pdf

NCBI NIH accounts restricted from June 1st, 2021

https://ncbiinsights.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2021/01/05/important-changes-ncbi-accounts-2021/

renv package released

https://rstudio.github.io/renv/articles/renv.html

eLife publicly reviewed 300 submissions

https://twitter.com/elife/status/1347507848922734594?s=12

Podcast Open Science Stories upcoming

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