Vincent Tunru @Flockademic@scholar.social

We just confirmed the first successful data export to CrossRef Event Data, so Plaudit research endorsements are now officially open data.

You can contribute! Install the extension: https://plaudit.pub/extension?utm_source=scholar.social&utm_medium=fediverse&utm_campaign=crossref_export

I've just released a Plaudit browser extension! Plaudit is an attempt to simulate #OpenAccess research by influencing the incentive structure for researchers: direct endorsements by their peers, rather than through being published in a paywalled journal.

Get it here: https://plaudit.pub/extension?utm_source=scholar.social&utm_medium=fediverse&utm_campaign=extension_introduction

That is not likely to be at risk when funders demand publication in OA venues, however. Rather, when the term is used in this context, academics are not afraid of their research being repressed, but for their career progression.

It is a legitimate worry. However, career progression being hampered is a different problem than suppression of research, and tolerating research behind paywalls is not the only possible solution.

Involving "academic freedom" when arguing against Plan S feels disingenuous.

Academic freedom is important because we do not want funders to suppress results of academic research that does not suit their world view.

For Open Access advocates using reddit: I made a subreddit that is automatically populated with links from the Open Access Tracking project.

It's here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Open_Access_tracking/

#OpenAccess #OA

Proud to announce a new collaboration with eLife and the Center for Open Science on a new project: Plaudit!

More information here:
https://elifesciences.org/for-the-press/0cf0e963/elife-backs-plaudit-for-open-sharing-of-research-recommendations

@trunk Please add me to Academia, Open Education, Science, Social Innovation. #Trunk

Big news in #OpenAccess:

- No more embargoes
- No more copyright transfer
- No hybrid journals
- A cap on APCs

...for practically all European-funded research from 2020 onwards. It's called #planS, and it's fantastic!

https://www.scienceeurope.org/coalition-s/

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https://scholar.social/media/wGkdAOLcQYMegIePkJk

Just realised that visually impaired users were not entirely catered for when I put search live just now. My apologies - a fix is now live. #Accessibility is important!

https://scholar.social/@Flockademic/100106310606406704

New on Flockademic: search! Want to find a researcher's freely available articles? Simply curious to see what your profile looks like? Give it a try now: https://flockademic.com https://scholar.social/media/fZx3rIKx1aVrEDPRMks

My recent tootstorm (sorry for the spam! I didn't know about the "Unlisted" option) in blog form: To fix scholarly publishing, decouple credentialing from publishing

https://medium.com/p/to-fix-scholarly-publishing-decouple-credentialing-from-publishing-29b211f49acc

My message to researchers is similar: find ways to promote your academic work that are independent of the journal it’s published in. I’m working on one such method with Flockademic: by bundling your research together on your academic profile, your research promotes you instead of the journal it’s published in.

https://medium.com/flockademic/the-holy-grail-in-open-access-sharing-that-benefits-authors-b685ff2c6300

For the scientific policy advisors at the OECD, my answer to that question is that we should decouple the evaluation of researchers from the publishing process. If researchers are evaluated on the quality of their research instead of the journal it was published in, that would remove their need to pay whatever amount of public money a publisher asks of them just to obtain career credentials.

https://medium.com/flockademic/the-ridiculous-number-that-can-make-or-break-academic-careers-704e00ae070a

The question then is: how can we bring down the costs of scholarly publishing?

Another example of this playing out is that, despite providing practically identical services at a higher price, Nature’s Scientific Reports has overtaken PLOS One as the largest journal. Its primary differentiator? The Nature brand.

https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2017/04/06/scientific-reports-overtakes-plos-one-as-largest-megajournal/

This indicates that the primary value of a journal — one that researchers are willing to pay good public money for — is credentialing. It’s the brand that they pay for. And when businesses do not compete on price or services provided, but on brand, prices rise and affordability decreases.