Hello all,

I work at an independent publishing house (based UK and US) and we’re looking for grant schemes for our open access initiative. We’ve applied to Knowledge Unlatched, but it’s rather complicated and overly specified to get our titles out and receive our funds through this initiative.

There are tons of resources for individual researchers and academics seeking OA publishing funding, but very few I could find for publishing bodies. Does anyone have any experience or ideas that could be helpful?

Thanks in advance!

I would appreciate it if anyone could help me understand if this is permissible under OA. If an author retains copyright over their work, my understanding is that they would not be subject to any restrictions as the copyright holder. Typically, author agrees to give the publisher first right to publish the article, and the article would licenced for example under CC-NC license —allowing for non-commercial redistribution—.

Would it be acceptable for the publisher to request that they remain the sole commercial publisher of the article for the first 3 years? prohibiting the author from republishing the article commercially (e.g. as part of a book)

I've seen so many articles quote Reagan on his well-known welfare queen description but I hadn't found an audiovisual source until now. It's an campaign speech in Kinston, North Carolina from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum: https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/audio/ronald-reagan-campaign-speech-kinston-north-carolina-north-carolina-republican. The mp3 file is there but here's the direct link to it as well: https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-05/rr-comp95-aud-0005-3-20-1976.mp3?VersionId=Wncwzq3Er9dGypBsLGwA6mHfD4oeTw4u.

It's not the super famous speech where he used it for the first time, that one might only be freely accessible through this Soundcloud clip: https://soundcloud.com/slate-articles/ronald-reagan-campaign-speech, but it's not as reliable as the previous one. Even though it's not his original full quote, he still mentions the main exaggerated descriptions of Linda Taylor's crimes between 30:05 - 30:33. Here's a non-professional transcript of the section:

The greatest example of Washington's failure is welfare. There's no one in Washington that knows how many people there are on welfare, they only know how many checks they're sending out. In Chicago they found out how many checks they're sending out to one woman. She's been using 80 names, 30 addresses, 15 telephone numbers and been getting $150,000 a year tax-free from welfare, now they're charging her with fraud.

I hope people trying to write about the topic of "welfare queens" find this useful.

Hi everyone, I'm a researcher currently working on a project about Professor Raymond Dart. I've learned that the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) holds digital archives that include original photographs of him, but I've been unable to access these materials. Does anyone have experience with Wits' digital repositories or know which department or individual I should contact to request access? Any guidance or advice would be greatly appreciated! Thank you! Matteus

This article shows how The Public Knowledge Project was among the pioneers in promoting the open science we all enjoy today. Interesting insights by John Willinsky :

https://daily27.info/2024/11/08/finding-ways-to-support-open-access-to-research-and-scholarship/

Schubert et al. (2024) reveal the successes and challenges faced by organizations in adhering to reforestation best practices. While many acknowledge the importance of measurable goals and community involvement, only a few provide detailed monitoring and long-term plans. Only 38% of organizations in the study report quantitative measures of the benefits to local communities.

https://groundtruth.app/evaluating-global-tree-growing-efforts-achievements-and-challenges/

DeFroda SF, Vadhera AS, Quigley RJ, Singh H, Beletsky A, Cohn MR, Michalski J, Garrigues GE, Verma NN. Moderate Return to Play and Previous Performance After SLAP Repairs in Competitive Overhead Athletes: A Systematic Review. Arthroscopy. 2022 Oct;38(10):2909-2918.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9914261

New paper on the Lessons From the ISIDORe and BY-COVID Consortia for Pandemic Preparedness

https://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2023-035

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I would like to make a suit for this paper on the form of an open review of about FAIR principles papers:

https://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2020-032

FAIRification can be schematized as a wheel describing iterative quality steps that need to be approved by the community throughout the process. This schema displays the “preparing” and “training” phases as conditions of pre-FAIRification. The pre-FAIRification processes must be community-approved at each iteration. The FAIRification steps ‘check’ and ‘adjust’ implementation must be approved by the community before a new iteration.

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