This was the 14th time the APE conference was organized, by Arnoud de Kemp. I attended for the 3rd time, and did not go to the preconference day. Arnoud asked me to chair a session (on books, mind you) and he also invited me to try to attract more library colleagues next year. So here..
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What – on 24 December 2018 – could I possibly add to the wealth of information recently published about Plan S? That question has been on my mind the past few days. I have the habit to post something towards the end of the year, and obviously this should be about this topic. I have..
In the past few weeks I went to a few workshops / lectures related to open access and / or open science. I attended a validation workshop of the ERC, the Knowledge Exchange Workshop on open access monographs, watched Paywall the movie, and attended the Van Hasselt lecture by Philip Kitcher, i.e., “What do we..
These past few weeks I have experienced the difficulty of having different hats. As program manager open access at the VSNU and involved in the negotiations with the (bigger) publishers, I am positive about the recently announced plan of “cOAlition S”. It is helping us in our ambition that publicly-funded scientific publications must be accessible..