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Do you obey public-access mandates? Google Scholar is watching – Nature (Richard Van Noorden | March 2021)

Posted by Dr Gary Allen in Research Integrity on April 17, 2021
Keywords: Institutional responsibilities, Journal, Research integrity, Research results, Researcher responsibilities

The Linked Original Item was Posted On March 31, 2021

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Search-engine co-founder Anurag Acharya explains why it now tells authors when their papers should be made free to read.

Google Scholar, the popular free search engine for scholarly literature, revealed an unexpected feature on 23 March: it is keeping track of whether research papers covered by funders’ public-access mandates are free to read.

Regardless of whether you consider it a useful tool/reminder or another invasion into academia by big tech, there can be no question as to the significance of this move.  We have included links to 17 related items.

A scientist’s Google Scholar profile now displays how many of their papers should be free to read because a funder requires it; how many actually are; and how many are not. The search engine also encourages authors to make non-compliant papers public, if necessary simply by uploading them to their Google Drive. Researchers’ reactions have been mixed. Some have called it a ‘wall of shame’ and criticized it for mistakes — but others have welcomed it for prompting researchers to make their papers public.

Anurag Acharya, the co-founder of Google Scholar, explained to Nature how the tracking works — and how it might change in the future.

Do you obey public-access mandates? Google Scholar is watching
Search-engine co-founder Anurag Acharya explains why it now tells authors when their papers should be made free to read.

Related Reading

Publishers claim Plan S’ repository rules will bankrupt journals – Times Higher Education (Jack Grove | February 2021)

Open-access Plan S to allow publishing in any journal – Nature (Richard Van Noorden | July 2020)

New deals could help scientific societies survive open access – Science (Jeffrey Brainard | September 2019)

Publishers roll out alternative routes to open access – Science (Jeffrey Brainard | March 2020)

‘Broken access’ publishing corrodes quality – Nature (Adriano Aguzzi | June 2019)

Plan S and the Transformation of Scholarly Communication: Are We Missing the Woods? – Scholarly Kitchen (Alison Mudditt | June 2019)

Ambitious open-access Plan S delayed to let research community adapt – Nature (Holly Else | May 2019)

(Australia) Industrial umpire lashes universities ‘obsessed’ with rankings and reputation – Sydney Morning Herald (Nick Bonyhady & Natassia Chrysanthos | March 2020)

(US) Politics and Open Access – Scholarly Kitchen (Robert Harington | December 2019)

Plan U: Universal access to scientific and medical research via funder preprint mandates (Papers: Richard Sever, et al | June 2019)

(Includes an update 07/06/2019) A report about Plan S’s potential effects on journals marks a busy week for the open-access movement – Science (Jeffrey Brainard | March 2019)

Open Access, Academic Freedom, and the Spectrum of Coercive Power – Scholarly Kitchen (Rick Anderson | November 2018)

Will the world embrace Plan S, the radical proposal to mandate open access to science papers? – Science (Tania Rabesandratana | January 2019)

Funder open access platforms – a welcome innovation? – LSE Impact Blog (Tony Ross-Hellauer, et al | July 2018)

Radical open-access plan could spell end to journal subscriptions – Nature (Holly Else | September 2018)

Europe’s open-access drive escalates as university stand-offs spread – Science (Holly Else | May 2018)

Scholarly communications shouldn’t just be open, but non-profit too – LSE Impact Blog (Jefferson Pooley | August 2017)

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