Bernard Rentier @bernardrentier@qoto.org
- Virology
- Open Access
- Open Science
- Freedom of expression
🇫🇷 Virologiste, ancien Recteur ULiège 🇧🇪 (2005-2014)
🇬🇧 Virologist, Rector Emeritus ULiège 🇧🇪 (2005-2014)
🇫🇷 Défenseur de l’accès libre aux publications scientifiques, de la Science ouverte et de la liberté d’expression des chercheurs dans leur domaine de compétence.
🇬🇧 Advocate for Open Access, Open Science and freedom of expression for researchers in their field of expertise.
Joined Nov 2022
Liège, a cradle of academic #openaccess voluntarism
https://bernardrentier.wordpress.com/2023/10/02/liege-a-cradle-of-academic-open-access-voluntarism/
A short story from Liège in the long history of OpenAccess
https://hdl.handle.net/2268/307234
25th Anniversary of SciELO.
Commemorative e-book : « We so loved #OpenAccess » - https://25.scielo.org/en/we-so-loved-open-access/
Knowledge Exchange Analysis Report on Alternative Publishing Platforms - https://knowledge-exchange.pubpub.org/pub/d9h2tp1x
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And of course, Mastodon represents the social medium to use if you care about open science; as the UNESCO points out, it's important that the infrastructure we as scientists use is community-owned and open, not corporation-owned and subject to the CEO's whims.
Since I use social media to discuss science, meet colleagues, network, and disseminate to the general audience and colleagues, I can't keep using X with integrity.
https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000379949.locale=en
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#SpringerNature is urging #India to create a "research fund".
https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/odisha/2023/aug/26/india-should-set-up-research-fund-says-springer-president-2608888.html
Though SN (or the article author) is careful not to say so explicitly, SN seems to be urging India to create a fund to pay #APCs.
h/t Subbiah Arunachalam
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I missed this #Elsevier pilot project with #OpenPeerReview in 2019.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-08250-2
"Publishing [#PeerReview] reports did not significantly compromise referees’ willingness to review, recommendations, or turn-around times. Younger and non-academic scholars were more willing to…review & provided more positive & objective recommendations. Male referees tended to write more constructive reports…Only 8.1% of referees agreed to reveal their identity in the published report."
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Update. New study: "Most journals [in #biology] offer minimal support for scientists whose first language is not English…Only 8% of the journals made their complete guidelines to authors available in at least one language other than English; less than 7% allowed authors to publish articles in languages other than English; and a mere 10% explicitly approved the use of references published in a language other than English."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02529-1
J. R. Oppenheimer is much in the news. If you wish to access his first scientific paper, published in 1926 when he was 22 (the abstract alone is very edifying in terms of his genius), it is available online from Cambridge University Press and will cost you... €31.
Still a long way from #OpenAccess !
Censorship, even on open publication platforms
https://bernardrentier.wordpress.com/2023/08/05/censorship-even-on-open-publication-platforms/
#openaccess : EPA posts pesticide incidents data publicly.
https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-posts-pesticide-incident-data-publicly
Faut-il sanctifier la révision par les pairs ? https://bernardrentier.wordpress.com/2023/07/20/faut-il-sanctifier-la-revision-par-les-pairs/
Framagroupes. Créer des groupes de discussion par mail gratuitement https://outilstice.com/2023/06/framagroupes-creer-groupes-de-discussion-par-mail/
Well done ! Never too late ! #OpenScience will never become a reality as long as researchers (the younger ones in particular) keep being evaluated on quantitative criteria pushing them towards superficial 'profitability' rather than substantive efficiency. @ULiegeRecherche #CoARA https://www.news.uliege.be/cms/c_18335474/en/uliege-signs-the-coara-agreement-for-the-reform-of-research-evaluation
A mental-health crisis is gripping science — toxic research culture is to blame
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01708-4
abstracts from the Open Science for Health conference, Paris, 17.02.2023. In French. https://aaa-aphp.fr/science-ouverte-pour-la-sante-au-palais-du-luxembourg-le-17-fevrier2023-lessentiel-des-interventions-lors-du-colloque
Well… Surprised ?
« Articles in open access repositories receive 50 % more citations than paywalled ones »
And look who’s publishing this !
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0099133323000733
The Musée du #Louvre innovates and publishes the catalog raisonné of its collection of Van Dyck paintings in four simultaneous formats, three of which are digital and accessible and downloadable for free (#openaccess).
Le Louvre wishes to provide free, unlimited, and immediate access to its own research publications while at the same time facing the challenge of the dematerialization of art books.
👉 https://presse.louvre.fr/le-premier-livre-multiformat-du-musee-du-louvre/ (also in English).
- Virology
- Open Access
- Open Science
- Freedom of expression
🇫🇷 Virologiste, ancien Recteur ULiège 🇧🇪 (2005-2014)
🇬🇧 Virologist, Rector Emeritus ULiège 🇧🇪 (2005-2014)
🇫🇷 Défenseur de l’accès libre aux publications scientifiques, de la Science ouverte et de la liberté d’expression des chercheurs dans leur domaine de compétence.
🇬🇧 Advocate for Open Access, Open Science and freedom of expression for researchers in their field of expertise.
Joined Nov 2022
