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New Data: Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA) Members’ Output Continues to Grow, as Does the Use of CC BY Licenses
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|From an Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA) Blog Post by Dan Pollock, Chief Digital Officer, Delta Think: The volume of publications from OASPA members continues to grow. Just under 2.1 million articles were published by members in the period 2000-2019. Over 425,000 of these were published in 2019, representing a growth of around 17% […]
Roundup (November 30, 2020
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|Frontiers Joins United Nations SDG Publishers Compact Open Access Publishing Platform to Be Launched by the EC (via EOSCsecretariat.eu)
Initiative for Open Abstracts (I4OA) Launches to Promote Discovery of Research, New Cross-Publisher Initiative Calls for Unrestricted Availability of Abstracts
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|From Today’s I4OA Launch Announcement: The Initiative for Open Abstracts (I4OA) calls on all scholarly publishers to open the abstracts of their publications, and specifically to distribute them through Crossref, in order to facilitate large-scale access and promote discovery of critical research. I4OA—a collaboration between scholarly publishers, academic librarians, researchers, infrastructure providers and other stakeholders—will […]
From the Harvard Library: Called the Values Project, this work began last fall in collaboration with the creative design firm IDEO. The start of the new academic year marks the public release of these collective values, which are listed in detail below and emphasize curiosity, progress, collaboration, diversity, and access. They speak to the strengths […]
Report: “Peer Review of Scholarly Research Gets an AI Boost” (Artificial Intelligence Review Assistant)
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|From IEEE Spectrum: Open-access publisher Frontiers has debuted an AI tool called the Artificial Intelligence Review Assistant (AIRA), which purports to eliminate much of the grunt work associated with peer review. Since the beginning of June 2020, every one of the 11,000-plus submissions Frontiers received has been run through AIRA, which is integrated into its collaborative peer-review platform. This […]
From the Urban Libraries Council: Public libraries across the U.S. and Canada are taking bold and innovative measures to mitigate the inequitable impact of COVID-19 on children, low-income families, communities of color, people experiencing homelessness and other high-risk populations. Through dynamic partnerships with local government, new digital service models, reimagined library spaces and other innovative […]
Average Weekly Netflix Usage Rose 72% in the U.S. Since COVID-19 Pandemic Began, The NPD Group Says CHORUS Board of Directors Election Results Knowledge Unlatched Launches a New Global Open Access Funding Round, Introducing More Pledging Options OpenVault: Pandemic Drives Almost a Year’s Worth of Broadband Traffic Growth in the Span of a Couple of […]
Frontiers Has Developed an AI-Based Recommendation Tool That Enables Fast-Track Review of COVID-19 Research Proposals
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|Update November 24, 2020 Do You Have a Conflict of Interest? This Robotic Assistant May Find It First (via NY Times) Update July 1, 2020 Artificial Intelligence to Help Meet Global Demand For High-Quality, Objective Peer-Review in Publishing (via Frontiers) From Frontiers: An Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool to help funders identify specialists to peer-review proposals […]
cOAlition S Responds to Open Access Publishers’ Statement on Transformative Agreements
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|From cOAlition S Statement cOAlition S has taken good note of the position paper by five fully Open Access publishers that criticizes the low transformational potential of Transformative Agreements, while calling for prioritizing support mechanisms for native Open Access publications and alternative peer-review platforms. ESAC has recently published a response clarifying the nature and function of Transformative Agreements. […]
News from UMass Amherst Libraries, University of Alberta Libraries, & More Headlines
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|Google Maps is Astonishingly Easy to Hack (via Fast Company) IOP Publishing Releases Annual Report UMass Amherst Libraries Mark Open Education Week with Publication of New Open Access Textbook UC Davis and Frontiers Extend Open Access Publishing Agreement University of Alberta Libraries Hires Wikipedian-in-Residence