5:51 p.m.
För några månader sedan intervjuades Lars Björnshauge i Against the grain
och hade bl.a synpunkter på s.k. transformativa
avtal av den typ som BIBSAM tecknat och som han anser ha bisarra
konsekvenser och enbart gynnar dom globala aktörerna
på bekostnad av OA, öppen tillgång.
I nu tjugo år har BIBSAM kritiserats för att inte gynna fri tillgång till
vetenskaplig information för alla.Lars Björnshauge var en
av kritikerna redan då. Ingegerd Rabow även hon från Lund inte att
förglömma.
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v32#4 ATG Interviews Lars Bjørnshauge, Managing Director and Founder of the
Directory of Open Access Journals
BY AGAINST THE GRAIN | SEP 30, 2020 | 0 COMMENTS
By: Tom Gilson (Associate Editor, Against the Grain) and Katina Strauch
(Editor, Against the Grain)
https://www.charleston-hub.com/2020/09/v324-atg-interviews-lars-bjornshauge…
Klipp:
Regarding hybrid open access: Hybrid open access was invented by
publishers to accommodate the increasing number of open access policies and
mandates in universities, research funders and governments, and to allow
researchers to publish in their preferred journals. Under a slogan of
protecting academic freedom, publishers could offer researchers the ability
to continue submitting to their preferred journals or prestige journals.
It is a well-known fact that the fees charged by hybrid journals are on
average twice as expensive as the APCs charged by fully open access
journals. But, it is a less well-known fact that hybrid articles do not
participate in the functionality of link resolvers because the OpenURL
framework was architected only at a journal level. A reader in a
university seeing a citation to a hybrid article will only see the link to
the full- text if the university subscribes to the containing journal.
Otherwise it will look to the user like they have no access to that
article. Hybrid “open” is very much a false promise, but has nevertheless
allowed commercial publishers to continue to distort the publishing
business. Now, the recent variants of “transformative agreements” only
makes the grip of narrow commercial interests even stronger, with the
consent of the academy (universities, libraries and research funders).
These developments have the bizarre consequence that the fully open access
publishers, who are doing exactly what universities and research funders
want to see happen — (open from day one with liberal use, reuse and remix
rights) are being disadvantaged and sometimes even excluded from the
competition
Jan
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Jan Szczepański
F.d Förste bibliotekarie och chef för f.d Avdelningen för humaniora,
vid f.d. Centralbiblioteket, Göteborgs universitetsbibliotek
E-post: Jan.Szczepanski63 at gmail.com