To be clear, Elsevier generally demands exclusive publishing rights to academic research *funded by the public,* which it then sells back to the university system in multimillion-dollar journal bundles. This is paywall-as-a-service. Thrilled to see UC call it.
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fwiw, I'm not against for-profit journals; I'm against publicly funded research orgs granting *exclusive* publishing rights to for-profit journals. For all its "value adds," I wonder how much less Elsevier would have to charge if it weren't the only game in town
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If the editorial layer adds so much value — if Elsevier is so much better at organizing solid peer review processes & separating outstanding work from questionable work — welp, that's a service it can provide with or without exclusive rights to the research. I'm all for it.
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I'm not being totally flippant; I absolutely see a path forward for research curation as a profitable niche in academia. Competitive pressures could nudge it out of its static pre-web format while simultaneously encouraging an explosion of new ideas in pre-reg, peer review, etc.
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Isn't it a bit curious that we just assume, in 2019, that the print periodical is a strong format for curating scientific research? Stop granting exclusive rights to a single aged distribution channel & I bet we'll see a profoundly more diverse & user-friendly ecosystem emerge
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Mason 🏃♂️ ✂️ Retweeted Stephen Pimentel
Imagine this platform being used not only by the obvious end-users (researchers, students, etc.) but also by a network of *other tools* attempting to optimize research accessibility/validation/analysis for every use casehttps://twitter.com/StephenPiment/status/1104464614794747904 …
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Stephen Pimentel @StephenPimentImagine a platform that is a hybrid of GitHub and http://arXiv.org , with strong conventions around pre-registration, data, and code, as well as the "paper," all oriented toward reproducibility. Such a platform would largely obviate the role of peer review. https://twitter.com/webdevMason/status/1104456137003266048 …1 reply 4 retweets 9 likesShow this thread -
Imagine a universal API for public research at every stage of the lifecycle, for authors, for data sets, for grants + grant-makerpic.twitter.com/St2i313Qas
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This is well within the bounds of our technical ability, and there's surely demand for it — but I don't see any way for this to happen while research orgs are making deals that make public research the defensible intellectual property of private companies
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On this point, it's not the research that's the intellectual property of Elsevier, it's the published article in which the research is described. OA business at Elsevier grew 25% last year, so the world we both want is coming.
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Guess who is responsible for the growing influx of VC into the formerly sleepy sector? It's the commercial publishers, as they transition to information & analytics businesses, making acquisitions of startups & giving VCs a reason to invest.
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I’m sure many of them would love to see the free dissemination of all extant public research — the start-up boom that would follow would probably define the decade
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No published research is inaccessible today, even the subscription stuff. Libraries are allowed to give free access to anyone who walks in, researchers can give their papers to anyone who asks, then there's all the pirate stuff. Developing countries are given free access.
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It’s a search problem. The difference between library-card access to a handful of PDFs at a time & an open, universal API for public research is *massive.* The opportunity that’s currently being squandered is unreal.
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