Hacker News with Generative AI: Open Access

Evolution journal editors resign en masse to protest Elsevier changes (retractionwatch.com)
All but one member of the editorial board of the Journal of Human Evolution (JHE), an Elsevier title, have resigned, saying the “sustained actions of Elsevier are fundamentally incompatible with the ethos of the journal and preclude maintaining the quality and integrity fundamental to JHE’s success.”

Science, Publishing, Academia, Open Access

106 points by panic 21 days ago | 31 comments

Where Open Access Has Failed to Reform Academic Publishing, Antitrust Law Might (techdirt.com)

Open Access, Academic Publishing, Antitrust Law

5 points by type0 78 days ago | 0 comments

Open-Access AI: Lessons from Open-Source Software (lawfaremedia.org)
Open-weight AI models aren’t the panacea for AI democratization, innovation, and accountability that their evangelists claim them to be.

Open-Source Software, Artificial Intelligence, Law, Open Access

6 points by ano-ther 84 days ago | 0 comments

Don't Publish with IEEE (2005) (cr.yp.to)
IEEE is refusing to accept public-domain papers except from government authors.

Academic Publishing, Open Access, Copyright

239 points by stargrave 88 days ago | 92 comments

Shodhganga: A Reservoir of Indian Theses (ac.in:8443)
The Shodhganga@INFLIBNET Centre provides a platform for research students to deposit their Ph.D. theses and make it available to the entire scholarly community in open access.

India, Research, Academia, Theses, Open Access

5 points by thunderbong 100 days ago | 0 comments

FRED: New Zealand open-access and crowdsource database of fossil records (fred.org.nz)
FRED is a computer database for the New Zealand Fossil Record File (FRF) which is a recording scheme for fossil localities in NZ and nearby regions.

Databases, Paleontology, New Zealand, Open Access, Crowdsourcing

113 points by teleforce 115 days ago | 9 comments

MIT leaders describe the experience of not renewing Elsevier contract (sparcopen.org)

Open Access, Academic Publishing, MIT, Elsevier

587 points by nabla9 151 days ago | 220 comments

MIT libraries are thriving without Elsevier (pluralistic.net)

Libraries, Elsevier, Open Access

9 points by samizdis 154 days ago | 0 comments

OECD provides unrestricted access to all content (oecd-ilibrary.org)

Open Access, OECD, Research, Data, Public Policy

6 points by ynac 172 days ago | 5 comments

Academic journals are a lucrative scam – and we're determined to change that (theguardian.com)