One year of MarXiv: Our first annual review
MarXiv (rhymes with "archive") celebrated its first birthday in early November 2018. Over the course of the last year, we've hit a number of important milestones.
Blogs
Paying for Open Access does not increase your paper's impact, but self-archiving in a repository does
According to a report from the OECD, the citation impact driven by publishing your research Open Access is caused by papers that are Green Open Access — where the author "self-archives" their work in a central repository, commonly an institutional archive or a public, discipline-specific repository like MarXiv. The effect is largely not caused by papers that are Gold Open Access, where the paper is available for free directly from the publisher. Why might this be the case? Let's start by getting our terminology straight, first.
How scientists can comply with the H2020 open access mandate through self archiving
Alessandro Saretta wrote an article detailing how services like MarXiv can be used to comply with the EU's Horizon 2020 open access mandate.
Sweden cancels all Elsevier subscriptions effective 30 June 2018
Sweden’s universities and research institutes have canceled all Elsevier subscriptions effective 30 June 2018, saving €12 million/year. This follows 250 French universities canceling subscriptions with Springer Nature, resulting in savings of €5 million/year.
How I Work Open: Nicole Baker
By Nicole Baker, Research Scientist, School of Aquatic and Fisheries Science at the University of Washington
How would you describe your research?
Annotation coming soon to MarXiv papers!
Today, the Center for Open Science (COS) and Hypothesis have announced that annotation is coming soon to all preprints, postprints, and other papers hosted by COS's OSF Preprints, including MarXiv.
SpringerNature makes it near impossible to email corresponding authors for copies of papers
By Nick Wehner, MarXiv Project Director
The primary method for obtaining full-text papers behind a journal’s paywall for those without institutional library access* is to email the author to ask for a free copy. But that cannot happen when you do not know the email address of the author, which SpringerNature does not offer.
Tear Down That Paywall: The Movement to Make Ocean Research Free for All
Oceans Deeply wrote an article about the issues MarXiv seeks to address and the growing movement to make ocean research accessible to everyone. The article is well worth a read! For more, see https://www.newsdeeply.com/oceans/articles/2018/01/18/tear-down-that-paywall-the-movement-to-make-ocean-research-free-for-all.
The Many Fallacies Used to Defend Subscription Publishing
While not a blog written by the MarXiv Team, we think this post is required reading for all those with questions or concerns about the shift to making research free for everyone to access – not just those with university libraries paying for access. This article is a rebuttal to the "Fallacy of Open-Access Publication" which includes a number of factual inaccuracies and logical fallacies to attack Open Access.
Why MarXiv Matters: How financial barriers to research impair ocean conservation
Publish your work behind a paywall? Put up a preprint, or just bury it in the ground.
We're not joking. Free access to research really, really matters in ocean conservation. This is why: