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Yes, we should be aiming for open access (and Zenodo/OpenAIRE has been one of the driving forces behind this).

I’ll follow up regarding RSS/notifications. I’m happy to act as the convenor for the project so I can review copyrights etc. to make sure that the papers are open access. We do need to be careful to comply with the paper publications rules but more and more papers are available under free-to-read licenses.

It does also help our OpenStack academic contributors to get visibility (and Zenodo runs on the CERN OpenStack cloud too (

Tim

On 19.05.17, 17:16, "Nicolas Bock" <nicolasbock at gmail.com> wrote:

    On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 02:38:40PM +0000, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
    >On 2017-05-19 07:49:19 -0600 (-0600), Nicolas Bock wrote:
    >[...]
    >> Normally journals have pretty restrictive copyright rules. Some even
    >> restrict the rights of the authors themselves and uploading PDFs is not an
    >> option in this case.
    >>
    >> All we would need is a list of DOIs and not the papers themselves, although
    >> unfortunately this is only really useful with open access papers since many
    >> journals still protect their content behind paywalls.
    >[...]
    >
    >As a community dedicated to openness, we should probably try to help
    >reverse that trend by highlighting open access academic journal
    >efforts whenever possible:
    >
    >    http://openjournal.foundation/
    >    http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/
    >    https://oaspa.org/
    >    https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/
    >    http://www.theoj.org/
    >    https://www.plos.org/
    >    https://www.hindawi.com/
    >    http://www.biomedcentral.com/
    >    https://doaj.org/
    >    http://oaji.net/
    >
    >I stopped at ten URLs, but in my opinion the growing trend toward
    >openness within academia is quite compelling and something we would
    >do well to support in whatever ways we can.
    
    Yes, I agree completely. Thinking about the open/closed question 
    more I think it doesn't make any sense to advertise closed 
    articles. Unless you are affiliated with a library that pays for 
    access you wouldn't be able to read those anyway (unless you can 
    find them on sci-hub ;) ) 
    
    Nick