The published form of our new #openaccess study is now out: https://doi.org/10.1088/2752-5295/ad8028

This work looks into the long-lasting heat wave across Texas and Louisiana last summer.

This is a part of a broader NOAA effort on climate event attribution for the US. Graphic by https://cpo.noaa.gov/divisions-programs/earth-system-science-and-modeling-division/modeling-analysis-predictions-and-projections/rapid-attribution/

'The commercial stranglehold on academic publishing is doing considerable damage to our intellectual and scientific culture. As disinformation and propaganda spread freely online, genuine research and scholarship remains gated and prohibitively expensive.' https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/16/academic-journal-publishers-universities-price-subscriptions #publishing #openaccess

Update. The Confederation of #OpenAccess #Repositories (#COAR) just released an important set of recommendations on managing multilingual and non-English language content in #OA repositories.
https://www.coar-repositories.org/news-updates/managing-multilingual-and-non-english-language-content-in-repositories/

#GreenOA #Metadata #Multilingualism #MultilingualResearch

We do the writing. We do the editing. We do the reviewing. We do the formatting (we typeset everything in LaTeX). We do the proofreading. We correct the mistakes introduced by proofreaders.

What do publishers do? They make us sign silly copyright forms, stamp their logo on our papers, and then proceed to charge *us* (either as authors or readers) ridiculous amounts.

People think academics/scientists are clever. We might be. But we are also stupid. And vain.

#openaccess

Effects of the #OpenAccess mandate at the US Department of Energy (#DOE): "Articles subject to the mandate were not cited more frequently by other academic papers" but were cited 42% more often in #patents, which the authors take as a "proxy for technological development." Among the "primary beneficiaries" of the policy were "small firms" or those "with historically low access to scientific research."
https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(23)01817-5

#Funders #OAintheUSA

Aberdeen's University Librarian @simonjbains announced our new rights retention policy today!

Seems niche, but is super important for fighting the supervillains in for-profit publishing.

Uni staff can no longer be made to sign over copyright to publish. All work will be made freely available to all in the university repository.

We have an amazing Open Research Team at the library 📚 🦸‍♀️ 🏆. Thank you!

Full details:
https://www.abdn.ac.uk/library/documents/Research%20Publications%20Policy%202023.pdf

#OpenAccess #OpenResearch #RightsRetention #LibraryDon

RT @OpenBookCollect
An important read for #OpenAccess #Publishing #LibraryTwitter #oaweek2022

"Funds that are allocated to APCs should be invested in shared infrastructure, tools and services that can support multiple journals simultaneously." @juancommander

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03201-w https://twitter.com/juancommander/status/1580185724770746369