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Predatory journals: no definition, no defence – a response

  • Posted on December 17, 2019
  • by Anton Angelo

The following article appeared in Nature, and I made a long response to it on the Australian OA Community email list, I thought I’d repost it here. Predatory journals: no…

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Plan S continues to grow momentum, thanks to WHO

  • Posted on September 8, 2019
  • by Anton Angelo

I wrote about Plan S when it first came out. I was so pleased to see something with a real timeline, that addressed the right issues (moving to real OA,…

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Where the inertia lies with OA.

  • Posted on March 5, 2019
  • by Anton Angelo

Note: this is an opinion, and I’d be glad of research that proves me wrong. Or right. That would be nice too. In talking with researchers about OA for the…

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Figshare v. Institutional Repositories.

  • Posted on November 28, 2018November 28, 2018
  • by Anton Angelo

About twice a week at the moment I’m asked to give advice on something in which I have an internal choice, “use our institutional repository (http://ir.canterbury.ac.nz) or figshare”. Both have…

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Hall of shame: NZ Sociology Journal.

  • Posted on August 23, 2018
  • by Anton Angelo

I’m starting a new series, the NZ Journal Hall of Shame.  This is to highlight NZ academic journals the a haven’t either thought of the option of Open Access, or…

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Are theses prior publication? The postgraduate’s nightmare.

  • Posted on July 3, 2018July 5, 2018
  • by Anton Angelo

Recently the worst thing happened.  We heard of two articles, from the same author, rejected in two Elsevier journals because they were too similar to their thesis.  We’ve strongly argued…

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Anton’s quick and dirty guide to publishing data

  • Posted on June 21, 2018June 21, 2018
  • by Anton Angelo

A journal has asked you to make your data publicly available as you submit your article.  This is a guide to how you can meet that requirement, not get your…

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Why commercial platforms for OA are not a problem (probably).

  • Posted on March 7, 2018March 7, 2018
  • by Anton Angelo

NB – at the time of writing I didn’t realise that Chealsye worked for Ubiquity.  They are cool though.  aa As the inevitable occurs and Open Access becomes the norm,…

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$1,712,706,007.83

  • Posted on February 22, 2018February 22, 2018
  • by Anton Angelo

I promised that I would update this blog with a more accurate figure of Elsevier’s profit from scholarly communications.  It seems that NZD$1,712,706,007.83[1]  (1.7 Billion New Zealand dollars) is a…

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Its the dialectic, innit?

  • Posted on February 19, 2018February 19, 2018
  • by Anton Angelo

The following tweet was sent in response to my previous post  by  Tom Reller, Elsevier, @TomReller Incorrect. That’s the number for the parent company – 4 total businesses, not just…

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