Simply Statistics Interview with Michael Eisen, Co-Founder of the Public Library of Science (Part 1/2)
- Interview
- Blog post: The impact of Randy Schekman abandoning Science and Nature and Cell - See more at: http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=1495#sthash.EbtVrFss.dpuf
- Green Open Access – Archiving the final ”accepted manuscript” in a sustainable subject or institutional repository, usually with an embargo.
- Gold Open Access – Direct Publication in an Open Access medium by applying creative commons license, article processing charges most likely needed.
- Hybrid Open Access – Payment for Open Access for single articles in subscription journals
Some publishers and journals do not support open access. However, because of their reputation they might be intriguing for scholars.
Efforts to support Open Access monographs are emerging:
- E-Thesis – Finnish universities’ service to publish open access dissertations and theses
- OpenEdition Books – a service for publishers to create OA monographs.
Open Access Monographs in Social Sciences and Humanities conference (July 2013, British Library), https://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/JISC-Collections-events/oabooksconf/OAbooksprogramme/
What is the role of peer-review in the future?
- Public Library of Science publishes all texts that are scientifically sound on the particular research field.
- arXiv asks users to endorse the submitted pre-prints. Reviewers are not anonymous.
- Media Commons press has arranged a platform for peer-to-peer review process for monograph manuscripts.
- Data mining options – new methods for research.
- New publishing formats of research results on digital platforms.
- University of Helsinki open access homepage
- University of Helsinki digital repository services
- University of Jyväskylä open access homepage
- FinnOA – Suomen Open Access työryhmä
- Open Knowledge Foundation Finland – Open Science Working Group