Michael Clarke

Gateway(s) | Clarke & Esposito Wiley’s new AI offerings, journals backflip from S2O, giant journals, manifestos, OUP buys Karger

Stuck on a tarmac due to shut-down related transit delays? We have you covered. A new issue of The Brief is out! It is not at all Brief, however. It is not our fault. A lot happened this month.
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Nothing like in Europe

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Yes, yes, Europe has its benefits. Walkable cities. Cultural heritage. Amazing food. Little gun violence. Healthcare. Governments that are not shut down. But the number of website pop-ups asking one to accept cookies renders the continent pretty much unlivable.

Not just disciplinary differences. I am constantly seeing commentary from top 1% researchers (eg well funded at top universities) that can’t seem to fathom the needs and circumstances of the other 99%

I am not convinced that “infrastructure” per se is a problem in the industry. Things like data governance or regional asymmetry in peer review seem bigger problems at the moment

“Homepages”

I have! Loved the sequel. It is shaping up to be a fantastic series.

Second this

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

As a member of the editorial board of CMS, I can only say “Amen”

This wins the internet today

Zero Minus Six | Clarke & Esposito The NIH accelerates the Nelson Memo, letters sent to journals, and China moves forward

The NIH *accelerates* the Nelson Memo while the US government sends vaguely threatening letters to several journals. Meanwhile, China enters phase II of its journals Excellence Action Plan. All in the latest issue of The Brief (@brieferyet.bsky.social) www.ce-strategy.com/the-brief/ze...

Your outtie thinks you’ll like the new displays

Vouchers do not even benefit families who send their kids to private schools as when the voucher program goes into effect the schools just raise tuition by the amount of the voucher. I speak from lived experience.

Woman in green blazer at podium presenting a slide with a complex and detailed flow chart; header is "The Complicated Version."

@lkric.bsky.social describes the book distribution system (TLDR: it's complicated!) in our third #NISOPlus25 pre-conference of the day, Assessing OA Ebook Usage. niso.plus/baltimore/

Chaos | Clarke & Esposito Chaos rules. Nelson Memo dead? Probably. Morressier + Molecular Connections. OA beyond the APC.

New from @brieferyet.bsky.social. In re-writing this 6 times to keep up with the madness, we have focused on just the chaos related to publishing. And there is a lot. CDC retractions and the likely death of the Nelson Memo for starters www.ce-strategy.com/the-brief/ch...

We are just curmudgeons. But also we were mostly channeling not our view but the likely view of indexers like WoS. If eLife created a separate preprint service (eLife Preprint) and only moved papers over to the journal once officially accepted, that would likely solve it. But I can't speak for WoS

I would pay good money for those tix

This is not about Zoom school or the pandemic. My son was just last week reading a book about the Trojan war that he brought home from school. He is in first grade.

That is a lot of pressure on one scientific journal

That is great Chris. I had not realized that ORCIDs Trust Markers were this far along

A shame that the universal ID system that the industry came up with (ORCID) has not (as far as I am aware) shown any serious interest in identity verification

As to Musk et al, the easiest path to not having NIH pay APCs is to not have a zero embargo OA policy 🤷‍♂️

At a certain point it becomes very difficult to charge a subscription for freely accessible content. At the very least there will be downward pricing pressure on subs. Therefore publishers will need to charge APCs (or have TAs in place)

Whether author or publishers deposit to PMC, papers will be freely accessible without an embargo. While publishers can still employ a subscription model with some OA content, NIH is a big funder. And comes on top of Plan S and other OA mandates.

The funds for APC will come from grants reducing money available for research unless congress were to increase the NIH budget accordingly which seems unlikely given the lack of enthusiasm on the Hill for the OSTP’s OA policies

This is effectively (whether intentional or not) an (unfunded) gold OA mandate. Most publishers will be forced to require an APC and issue an CC license