Hello Cafe goers, I'm writing to ask how others are handling the logistics of data collection and assessment for your read and publish (R&P) agreements. We currently support around 10 R&P agreements. The data availability is all over the place, with some publishers only providing publication data on a quarterly basis to me via email and other publishers allowing for report retrieval on demand via Copyright Clearance Center. I'm currently maintaining a clunky spreadsheet to track total articles published as well as total APC savings, and I'm wondering if there is a better way to gather and track these data
By now, many of you have likely seen today’s guest post in the Scholarly Kitchen, by David Green of Stacks Journal. I’d be interested to hear people’s takes on it:
Meh. Preprints are (yawn) just part of the science publishing process (see OSI-Infographic-2.0.pdf), where early research goes to get feedback before ending up as peer-reviewed articles (see for example Meta-Research: Tracking the popularity and outcomes of all bioRxiv preprints | eLife). They’re the rough drafts for a ton of science (although arXiv has been the end-state of a lot of physics and astronomy research since 1991). And they also provide an important avenue for quickly sharing findings during emergencies (see also COVID, even though a flood of bad information came in with the good), and for providing a way to
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