Libraries can't afford to buy one by one all the content, so they are subscribed to -very expensive- packages.
Cons of this, if a certain publisher does not want to be part of the package anymore, it goes off without notice to the subscribers.
And yet, libraries can't cancel their subscriptions. 😠
4/n
Academic publishers have identified very well their customers are not the same group as the ones who pay the bill (libraries, managers).
So customers (researchers) are price insensitive.
3/n
The specific problem with academic publishing market is that you can't go for a cheaper product when your favourites are too expensive.
Libraries need ALL the content.
2/n
Finally I found some time to see the documentary "Paywall, the business of scholarship".
🎥 https://paywallthemovie.com/
Great job by Jason Schmitt, with plenty of testimonies by different actors from the academic publishing area.
A few reflections👇
1/n
See a satellite tonight
https://james.darpinian.com/satellites/?s=09
The #COAR (@coar_ev) #Notify project is creating new levels of #interoperability between #preprint #repositories and other pieces of #OpenAccess infrastructure.
https://www.coar-repositories.org/news-updates/whats-new-with-coar-notify/
Basically, Notify how supports:
* One-click requests for peer review (from #Prereview, @prereview) for #preprints in #bioRxiv (@biorxivpreprint) and #SciELO (@redescielo)
* One-click journal submissions to OA journals (from #Episciences, @episciences) for preprints in #HAL (@hal_fr)
Estamos cumpliendo 2 años con nuestra instancia en el #fediverso y queremos enviar un gran agradecimiento a quienes han apoyado esta iniciativa 🎉
Una de las formas más efectivas de comunicar ciencia: ¡con danza!
Aquí, el creador de 'Dance your PhD' explica el superenfriamiento de átomos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlDWRZ7IYqw
😮
📢🚨 Exciting news! Our study (w/ @lajello and @andreatagarelli) on the #TwitterMigration to #Mastodon is out now on Scientific Reports!
📚 Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-48200-7
🔬 The migration represents a unique example of collective behavioral change documented through large-scale digital traces, and can teach us a lot about how people coordinate!
Here are the top data services I'd love to see come to the fediverse next year:
- OpenLibrary. https://openlibrary.org/ . A great collection of books, movies, audio, other.
- OpenStreetMap. https://www.openstreetmap.org/ We need a good `Place` vocabulary, and OSM has a great one.
- MusicBrainz. https://musicbrainz.org/ A great way to represent `Audio` objects cross-service. The best music encyclopedia on the planet.
- Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Main_Page For, well, everything else.
Qué importante es la perspectiva de #género para los niños, desde bien chiquititos.
Leyendo con mi #miniyyoencasa (1 año) un cuento de animales, veo que ¡todos son macho! EL ciervo, EL jabalí, EL caballo, EL pájaro... El genérico también podría ser femenino, ¿no?
#miniyyoencasa #manualidades
Bueno, en realidad, en la casa de la cultura. Nos han explicado que los renos de papá Noel en realidad ¡¡¡son renas!!! A los machos se les caen los cuernos en invierno 😲 ¿lo sabíais?
Usando #chatGPT para escribir notas de prensa --> aprendiendo nuevas palabras del inglés.
A ChatGPT le encanta decorar mis notas de prensa con multitud de adjetivos rimbombantes: pinnacle of cutting-edge research, prestigious accolade, cornerstone workshop, pivotal platform...
Too much.
Dropbox spooks users by sending data to OpenAI for AI search features
Feature opt-out by default bothers users who like to keep their files private.
Otro trabajo que se come la #IA: creadores de contenido en rrss e influencers.
"El objetivo de los creadores de influencers virtuales es ahorrar costes a las marcas que puede generar una modelo real, como por ejemplo los gastos de transporte, comida y alojamiento. “
Consecuencias: hipersexualizacion de la mujer, entre otras.
I often receive questions about which license to choose for publishing scientific articles
Here is a complete guide with FAQs
https://zenodo.org/records/4090923
. @PLOS is an example of publisher adopting price transparency, according to
@cOAlitionS_OA
🔓https://theplosblog.plos.org/2021/09/our-commitment-to-price-transparency/
Price transparency helps the research community better understand if the publishing fees they pay are commensurate with the services delivered. #OpenScience
☢️ Más de 20 países acuerdan triplicar la producción de energía nuclear para 2050 en la Cumbre del Clima.
Y que luego vengan diciendo que quitan el impuesto a las grandes fortunas...
Artículo de hoy de @eldiarioes
Física. #ComunicaCiencia y #OpenScience.
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