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Dramatic Growth of Open Access December 2015
Highlights After a year or so of slower growth at DOAJ to accommodate back-end technical work and a new get-tough policy on journal inclusion, robust DOAJ growth is back on track. In the last quarter...
View ArticleEditorial: open access, copyright and licensing: basics for open access...
Just published (February 2016) in the open access Journal of Orthopaedic Case Reports at the invitation of Editor-In-Chief Dr. Ashok Shyam: Editorial: open access, copyright and licensing: basics for...
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Dramatic Growth of Open Access March 31, 2016
Highlights Update April 12: congratulations to Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) - and all of the contributing repositories - now over 90 million documents. On the Global Open Access List, BASE's...
View ArticleCanada's draft new action plan on open government 2016 - 2018
Following are my comments on Canada's draft new action plan on open government 2016 - 2018Canada’s Draft New Plan on Open Government...
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Dramatic Growth of Open Access June 30, 2016
Highlights this quarter include a new indicator illustrating that 42% of the cancer literature indexed by PubMed is available as free full-text within 3 years of publication; ongoing strong growth in...
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Dramatic Growth of Open Access September 30, 2016
HighlightsThere is plenty to celebrate for this year's Open Access Week October 24 - 31 everywhere! As of Oct. 6, 2016, a Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) search includes over 100 million...
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Dramatic Growth of Open Access December 31, 2016
Download data here Highlights Arguably the best indicator of the global collaborative growth of open access, whether through archives or publications, is the ongoing impressive growth of what we can...
View ArticleNovel processes and metrics for a scientific evaluation: preliminary reflections
Reflections on Michaël Bon, Michael Taylor, Gary S. McDowell. “Novel processes and metrics for a scientific evaluation rooted in the principles of science - Version 1”. SJS (26 Jan....
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Critical Data Literacy, why and how: an Open Education Resource (OER)
This OER was developed for presentation at the Data Power 2017 conference held at Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario June 22 - 23. This is primarily a framework for how to go about teaching critical...
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Dramatic Growth of Open Access June 30, 2017
Correction: DOAJ will soon surpass 2.5 million articles, not a quarter of a billion as originally reported. Highlights Open access continues to demonstrate robust growth on a global scale, in terms of...
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Dramatic Growth of Open Access September 30, 2017
Happy Open Access Week!In brief: best guesstimate - there are approximately 70 million OA documentstoday (subset of BASE's 115 million, about 60% OA), with OA documents at BASE growing at a rate of...
View ArticleDramatic Growth of Open Access December 31, 2017
Highlights As usual the open access movement has much to celebrate as 2017 draws to a close, and the whole world has much to look forward to from open access in 2018. As of today there are 4.6 million...
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Dramatic Growth of Open Access March 2018
As usual open access is showing strong growth in many directions; more open access archives, documents, journals, articles, and books. This quarter focuses on the large number of indicators of growth...
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Dramatic Growth of Open Access June 2018
Congratulations to DOAJ for recently surpassing a milestone of over 3 million articles searchable at the article level! The outstanding growth story by percentage for the second quarter of 2018 was...
View ArticleCeased and transferred publications and archiving: best practices and room...
In the process of gathering APC data this spring, I noticed some good and some problematic practices with respect to journals that have ceased or transferred publisher. There is no reason to be...
View ArticleThe trouble with scientific faith, in this case, in AI
This post was originally posted to the Global Open Access List (GOAL) on July 12, 2018 with the following title: Why translating all scholarly knowledge for non-specialists using AI is complicated....
View ArticleCanada's Statutory Review of the Copyright Act, 2018: my individual submission
Update December 10: the original was over the 2,000 word count. Following is the final version under 2,000 words, followed by the original in case anyone is interested in what was cut. House of...
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2018: best year yet for net growth of open access
The March 31, 2019 full data is available for download here. Highlights: this edition of the Dramatic Growth of Open Access features charts that illustrate that 2018 showed the strongest growth to...
View ArticleDramatic Growth of Open Access October 1, 2019 dataset available
The October 1, 2019 dataset for the Dramatic Growth of Open Access is now available at: Morrison, Heather, 2019, "Dramatic Growth of Open Access October 1, 2019", https://doi.org/10.5683/SP2/EZQ1OK,...
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Dramatic Growth of Open Access 2019
2019 was another great year for open access! Of the 57 macro-level global OA indicators included in The Dramatic Growth of Open Access, 50 (88%) have growth rates that are higher than the long-term...
View ArticleDramatic Growth of Open Access September 30, 2020
While many aspects of our lives and activities have slowed down during the COVID pandemic, this has not been the case with open access! The OA initiatives tracked through this series continue to show...
View ArticleHousekeeping: change in focus from OA to AI
Since its inception, the focus of The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics (IJPE) has been on open access while my original intention was always the broader topic of poetic economics (radical...
View ArticleIn the style of...AI, identity & reality
In brief Artificial intelligence (AI) is already being used not only to draw from prior works to create new works, but also to create new works "in the style of" an existing creator. This should be...
View ArticleAI and copyright: submission to the U.S. Copyright Office Artificial...
This comment was submitted Oct. 26, 2023 to the U.S. Copyright Office's Artificial Intelligence Study Copyright laws internationally do not provide human creators with sufficient moral and related...
View ArticleConsultation on Copyright in the Age of Artificial General Intelligence: my...
This is my response to Industry Canada's Consultation on Copyright in the Age of Artificial General Intelligence. The deadline for responses has been extended to Jan. 15, 2024. Technical...
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