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I did a short list of (gold) OA vs subscription journals for Chemistry once. I think I grabbed the top x by impact factor from SciMago, then looked each one up in DOAJ - was basically to show that there are a bunch of high impact OA places to publish in. The obvious flaw to the approach was that it wasn't very balanced in terms of subdisciplines. Plus it was manual so doing it for lots of disciplines would be a nuisance. - Deborah Fitchett

I may have students work on this over the summer. If it's not already out there, I'd be happy to share it when it's compiled. - barbara fister

I love this so much. When Steve first showed me I was all THE COUCH!! IT IS THE COUCH!!! - Marianne

It IS the couch. :) Katie, you can thank PhotoBooth for the author photo. - laura x from BuddyFeed

I can't wait to read this! Well done, laura! - Lisa | #TeamMonique

Professional cover designs are one thing that traditional publishing has over self-publishing. Except when you can get a design that professional (that *is* a compliment) in a self-published book. Congratulations! - Walt Crawford

LOVE - jambina

Just fantastic. - Catherine Pellegrino

Everything looks wonderful! - Katy S

OMG! Where can I buy it! - Headless Gnad Kicker

oh wow, wow, wow. - Marie

Nowhere yet. But several places in the near future. - laura x from BuddyFeed

I keep seeing this and loving it again. - lris

... Imma add this cover to the miscellanea I'm collecting in case I ever get to teach a basic design course. - RepoRat

I love the couch! - maʀtha

For those curious about the couch: http://newrambler.net/ramblin... - laura x

Walt, I am touched by your compliment, after I have been a jerk to you too often. Thank you. That said, Laura supplied the photo of the couch, I chose a classic typeface and sampled colors from the photograph. So I'm happy with how it turned out, but it's more a matter of listening to what the author wanted. - Steele Lawman

OMG You mean Steele Lawman is actually Steve Lawson! I take it all.... Nah. A good book cover, especially a good uncluttered one, is great and not always easy to do. This one's good in a number of subtle ways. I try to respect those who have talents I lack, and really good cover design is one of those. - Walt Crawford

Good thing I can read. No one tells me anything! Here I was admiring the cover, never knowing the source of it! Wow. - Mama Lawson

Well, I know half the people here already. - Eric Hellman

So this would unglue the book, but not Walt himself? - Steele Lawman

we can't unglue Walt because there's no ISBN for him and OCLC won't catalog him. - Eric Hellman

At one point my library was seriously considering cataloging the liaisons so that we'd end up appearing when people searched for our topics of expertise. If we did that, could I be unglued? - lris

no time to read all the instructions - do i have to pledge an amount or is wishlisting it enough? - Christina Pikas

wishlisting is enough - Eric Hellman

Unhinged? - Steele Lawman

Iris, if the liaisons get their own Worldcat records, then maybe. We could start "unbalance.it". - Eric Hellman

It might be easier to come unglued all by myself... - lris

and now I'm thinking of a Guess Who pastiche - DJF from Android

I'm on Van Halen's "Unchained" myself. - Steele Lawman

http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Yo. Shark Dog.

Joe, I love that video. And David Lee Roth is the hotness. - Steele Lawman

There are some threads I'd just as soon stay out of. - Walt Crawford

Okay, I have wished! My son is very good at ungluing things, but I suspect he's a little too young to have an account. - laura x

Walt, if I were you, I would stay out of David Lee Roth's threads. - Yo. Shark Dog.

I would note one thing: Buying the book may have more of an effect than wishing for it. At $9.95 (and you *own* the PDF--no DRM, free to lend it, free to resell it), it's not a massive commitment. - Walt Crawford

Tied for #45 on the most-wished list with "Watchmen" and Tufte's "Display of Quantitative Information". https://unglue.it/lists... - Eric Hellman

Can't we declare Walt a National Treasure and get him archived and cataloged that way? - Cameron Neylon

As the person who originally raised this issue,I am glad to see interest, and if Walt decide to go for it I'll put down more money to unglue it. But I think I'll just say that here. - barbara fister

Cameron: No. I'm no treasure, national or local (I'm mostly a grumpy but curious old twice-fired has-been), and National Treasure doesn't carry funding. - Walt Crawford

[The "but curious" is, of course, what leads to the public library non-closure study, the academic library "circ is falling everywhere" study, Give Us a Dollar...and The Big Deal and the Damage Done. Curiosity combined with reasonable writing and adequate numeracy is a terrible, terrible thing.] - Walt Crawford

<3 - RepoRat

I may put shiznit on my CV as job title while trying to overcome Midwestern sinking-through-the-earth feeling. - barbara fister from iPhone

Tell them this is your website? http://bit.ly/14yjzAu translated through gizoogle. - Yo. Shark Dog.

I detoured tha fuck into darkness. Sheeeee-it. - barbara fister

*laughing* - RepoRat

"Curiositizzle." *dead* - LB: #TeamMonique from Android

It wasn't the one that I had in mind but its a nice example. I'm recalling a UK blog post, might have been Oxford University Press - Cameron Neylon

I think there was a math one? Went from oa to like Oxford or something? - Christina Pikas from iPhone

Was it ILAR? http://nas-sites.org/ilarjou... - Hedgehog

Not the subject you are looking for, but I am pretty sure that Folklorica used to be free since it was listed in a "Free Online Journals" database, and now it charges subscriptions, https://ojsprdap.vm.ku.edu/index... (Folklorica, Journal of the Slavic and East European Folkore Association. ISSN 1920-0242.) - Yo. Shark Dog.

The one I was thinking of was presumably biomedical because the content is/was in PMC but keep the examples coming! The more the merrier. These examples are to point out why the publisher position that "PMC is duplication of effort" is not true. - Cameron Neylon

BePress journals are not biomedical, but were sold and closed. (Although I guess they were sort of quasi-OA?) - Jaclyn aka spamgirl

Maybe "Discover"? - Katy S

Good, but we already get it in print. I don't mind overlapping if we only have e-access (they really want paper copies). - Kirsten

Pondering recommending that the join a couple of academic/professional societies. They'd get access to more subscriptions that way, plus then the students could see the workings of those types of organizations and maybe get involved. - Kirsten

Technology review? - kristin buxton

Yes, haven't been asked because the Big E knows better. ;) - RepoRat

I haven't so I don't encounter this. But if I had, I'd probably say something like, "Thank you for the invitation to [do whatever] for [journal of whatever]. I must, however, decline. I am a signatory to the Cost of Knowledge declaration (http://thecostofknowledge.com/) and will do no work of any kind for an Elsevier publication in protest of that company's policies and actions, past... more... - Steele Lawman

Yes, and I have turned down a guest special issue article offer because of it, and am moving off Mendeley now for same reason (some done: taking a while because was heavy user) - Heather Piwowar from iPhone

I'll copy in my text when I get to computer - Heather Piwowar from iPhone

I signed it, but I have not been asked to review/publish/edit an Els pub. I would probably simply decline and say that I have other projects going on. - Yo. Shark Dog.

aw, g'wan, tell 'em why. the more we make clear to Elsevier quislings that the Big E's behavior means less-viable journals, the better. - RepoRat

I have a general "no non-immediate OA reviewing policy". Text i generally use is..."Thankyour for your invitation to review X. I am afraid I no longer review for any journal or article which will not be made immediately Open Access with a CC BY license. [sometimes something on...I can't even tell what your journal policy is]. If your journal moves to an Open Access footing in the future I would be happy to look at reviewing papers for you at that time." - Cameron Neylon

Nice, Both. - Heather Piwowar from iPhone

Yes, I like that. I may add Lawman's "Screw the man" at the end, just because it kind of seals the deal. - Marie

Yeah, I thought the point to signing such a thing (or having such a personal policy) was to give yourself the courage/platform for a little lecture if they ever asked you to do something for an Evilsevier journal. - Steele Lawman

fyi here's what I said recently when invited to submit a paper: "Thanks for the invitation. It sounds like a great special issue! That said, I've signed the Elsevier boycott. In the spirit of encouraging you to understand how seriously some scholars dislike Elsevier's current policies and wish you would move your journal to a truly Open publisher I'm not willing to write anything for your publication. Hopefully we'll have a chance to collaborate another way some day." - Heather Piwowar

evidence it is so important you say WHY you are declining -- why you should take a moment to give the little lecture :) The person wrote back: "Thanks! I think this is great. We will make a special point about how two have refused to publish with Elsevier and how the quality of Elsevier journals suffers because of its policies and lobbying. That way your message will reach the audience (and editors). " - Heather Piwowar

and the local newspaper is apparently trying to extract a $60 license fee from people who want to link to their site. - DJF

SMASH - jambina

I told her that if I was going to be rude, I'd say that they were lying to her. - DJF

Can you ask her for a copy of that email? - copystar

wow. i'm fuming. - jambina

tell me about it. They are truly desperate. I gave her Sam's name for a second opinion, but he's out of the office for the long weekend already. - DJF

Well....then - Sir Shuping is just sir from FFHound(roid)!

Jeff: http://lmgtfy.com/... - DJF

local paper = London Free Press http://www.lfpress.com/ which is part of the Quebecor / Sun / Canoe group - copystar

Is this true or true-ish in Canada? Can't be, right? - Steele Lawman

it has never been true, but AC has been adding it to recent contracts in an attempt to convince people that it is, to justify their existence. The Supreme Court laughed at them - DJF from Android

the original conversation between the developer and Access Copyright was on the phone, unfortunately - DJF from Android

Happiest birthday and year! - maʀtha

Happy Birthday, Andy!!! - Katy S

Happy! - Jenica

Merry birthday! - ωαřмaiden ❤Marrit Woman❤

Happy birthday to you! - Meg V. Meg

Happy Birthday Andy! - Hedgehog from Android

Happy bday! - Sir Shuping is just sir from FFHound(roid)!

Happy Poobahday. - Yo. Shark Dog.

OCLC needs to update the terms to allow for bibliometric research and digital scholarship. - DJF

"access to ... information of interest to library patrons" sounds like your grad student, doesn't it? - Jenica

true. Again a stretch, since OCLC is assuming that we're interested in accessing the books, not the bibliographic data. We're also not allowed to use automated process to "'mine' or harvest material amounts of Data". One can only wonder what qualifies as "material amounts of data", but I don't thinking that 10,000 records would count as material. - DJF

this is the kind of stuff that has "radicalized" me over the past year. OCLC is taking data that so called member libraries gave it for free (hell, we paid to give it to them), and is selling access to it back to us, with restrictions on what we're allowed to do. - DJF

may I quote you publicly on that? - RepoRat

and people wonder why i want to stop cataloging. - kendrak

RR, which part? that it's radicalized me, or the framing that they're selling access back to us? This is just one of the smaller bits, and I will be soon be pointing out in an article that these terms are limiting the ability to do bibliometric research and limiting researchers in the emerging field of DH. - DJF

i recently had a librarian ask me something similar, and I found what I think might be the right answer on the WorldCat record use FAQ. Check out Question #6: http://www.oclc.org/en-US... - Christa

Christa, thanks for that. If course, I'm not transferring any records to him; I'm facilitating his getting a developer key so he can download them himself, which, again, oclc is ignoring as a possibility, and also, we're back to the question of, "what is a large amount of data?" I know that this is is perfectly acceptable. The problem is that oclc's incredibly detailed terms are so... more... - DJF from Android

DJF: your entire comment just prior to my question. :) I'm giving a talk in the Lands of the Enemy the end of this month. - RepoRat

sure. go wild. I said it publicly right here, and I'm not the first to point out that oclc is selling us our own labor and trying to claim copyright over factual data. - DJF from Android

this is one of my fave tweets - https://twitter.com/jjtuttl... - jambina

dead link? - DJF from Android

ah, protected tweet - DJF from Android

ah, OK David, I see. your original info sounded familiar to me, but it's not the same situation at all. and yes, i agree with your assessment of OCLC regarding who owns what. - Christa

We're not using any product--we download everything ourselves, and plug the data in to spreadsheets that we've developed over time. ETA: Not that I wouldn't like to not do them manually; it's a money issue. - Kirsten

Scholarly Stats is another paid product, and I think the open-source ERMS CORAL has a use statistics component, as well. It depends on how much you want to do yourself, using whichever system to aggregate them, and how much you want someone else to do for you. - Royce's favorite Anna

most e-resources librarians i know don't use a product at all, but instead gather COUNTER statistics and compile manually. - Marie

The PubGet people had something, but I don't know anything about it. We have Serials Solutions, and compile manually for everything else. - Rebecca Hedreen

^^^ PubGet has Paper Stats. Haven't used it. - Marie

this guy is the empty-suitiest empty suit that ever empty-suited. - RepoRat

thought leader! - kendrak

"turnaround CEO" ? - Hedgehog

Oh. No. - barbara fister from iPhone

didn't he get the boot from ingram last year? - jambina

Disrupt some innovation? - barbara fister from iPhone

Disappointing. - barbara fister from iPhone

jambina, i believe so. looks like he got the boot from proquest a few years ago - Sir Shuping is just sir

if I worked for OCLC Research I would be like "ALL HANDS TO THE LIFEBOATS" right now. I sure as hell hope I'm wrong. - RepoRat

I'm sure he's a swell guy & family man and all that jazz. But man, step AWAY from the stock photographs! http://www.skipprichard.com/ - Steele Lawman

no joke. and the "lookit me with awkwardly-smiling Important People!" shots. - RepoRat

Mssr. P. I live here in MD. And we do NOT put Old Bay on everything. Please let that be some form of folksy hyperbole. And Tony Blair's Comment "The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes." can go jump off a bridge. Easy to say yes indeed. - ♫410 I Coach 'em Up♫

I sometimes put Old Bay on my fries. - Julian

Dude, you don't carry it on your person AT ALL TIMES do you? - ♫410 I Coach 'em Up♫

People put old bay on deviled eggs. In Maryland. - Christina Pikas from iPhone

lots of white dudes? - RepoRat

that, and all-officers-no-enlisted, I see. - RepoRat

Bingo. - John Dupuis

It's also unclear to me who exactly is organizing this. Is it the consultant dude? The person who emailed me? - John Dupuis

NITLE seems to be at the bottom of the pile somewhere. - RepoRat

Only $25, I might give it a shot. Also, Michael Nielsen is speaking in the technology slot! - Yo. Shark Dog.

Ah, that. Yes, just some individuals at Carthage College, or perhaps as part of Wisconsin Library doings. One of the organizers is Lizz Zitron, who I had the pleasure of working with when she was in Library school. She is very good people. I think it's a legit professional development thing, done for the good of the whole. - RudĩϐЯaЯïan

It looks interesting, but also looks vaguely pyramid-y. I'm intrigued. - kendrak

And I have to say that, while there are some white dudes, it's a fairly diverse set of speakers. (There's only one speaker who I might pay $25 *not* to listen to, and these days that's a pretty good track record.) - Walt Crawford

uh, I count about 70% white dudes. that is not representative of librarianship, and I doubt it's representative of education or publishing either. Tech, yeah, sure, it's diverse as tech goes. - RepoRat

And starring James Falco as Terry Reese! http://nextgenlibraries.org/technol... - Steele Lawman

Steele- Freaks and Geeks era Franco for sure. - kendrak

Oops. That's Franco. My bad. - Steele Lawman

Imagine James Franco playing Tav Falco! - kendrak

I wouldn't sign up for this because they are calling it a Course-Ference which fuck that shit. But aside from that and the other issues mentioned above, this looks not horrible? - Steele Lawman

"This looks not horrible." - Yo. Shark Dog.

You think they want that as a blurb? For the right price, I'd be amenable. But it would have to include the question mark. - Steele Lawman

They totally need an endorsements page. - laura x

Info I just got from Lizz: Carthage College in Kenosha, WI is hosting a virtual conference on Forecasting Next Generation Libraries (http://www.nextgenlibraries.org) from July 1-August 19. This conference aims to help (mostly academic, but all are welcome!) librarians examine the past and their present in order to help forecast their future. Additionally, we'll hear from publishers,... more... - RudĩϐЯaЯïan

I agree with the not horribleness. It's probably well worth the $25. The panel format would have been easy to adapt to adding the occasional early- or mid-career rather than focusing on director of this or director of that. - John Dupuis

I use these boards to keep me grounded. On the one hand, knowing what students really think REALLY MATTERS as i make decisions. And staying in their goofy-ass loop is awesome. But on the other hand, I have to remember we'll absolutely 100% never ever ever ever please them all fully. Ever. - Jenica

RR, it's damned tempting. :) - Jenica

doooooo eeeeeeeeet! - Catherine Pellegrino

Yes, put out a basket labeled "as requested" with rock salt, wrought iron, and pictures of kittens. - lris

I asked the undergrad library here if they kept all the suggestion cards and responses on their (lively, EPIC WIN) suggestion board. Turns out they do. I told them they HAD to do a chapbook of these; it'd be a WIZARD fundraising tool. Sigh. They didn't listen. - RepoRat

...days like this are why I love working in libraries. Best after lunch cheer ever. - MontglaneChess

Totally need to put salt around some windows and doors and post pictures. - Rachel Walden

Oh, and if you do the salt/iron, you should also put out a small box with a hinged lid and label it a "crossroads box." - Rachel Walden

yipes. - $tephanie•Cog$ciLibrarian

Fucknuggets. - Zamms