#journalfailure — Public Fediverse posts
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It would be a lot of fun to create a chart demonstrating out of the 17,000+ vanished articles at Heterocycles, which ones were funded by e.g. NSF, BBSRC, Estonian Science Foundation, Wellcome Trust, et cetera.
Then email each of those funders asking what they think about the situation - that online access to this research they have funded has gone.
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Another interesting idea... what is the coverage of the vanished journal 'Heterocycles' in Sci-Hub?
Apparently only 36.7% according to the Sci-Hub Stats Browser: https://greenelab.github.io/scihub/#/journal/25864
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for instance for this paper by Bouabdallah et al (2022)
"A new C, C-linked functionalized bipyrazole: ...."
the journal version is offline (oops!)
https://doi.org/10.3987/com-21-14592whilst the 'green OA' repository hosted copy is safely kept online by @hal_fr here: https://hal.science/hal-03510616/
Yay for self-archiving and repositories providing resilience, even when journals fail to keep content online
https://rossmounce.co.uk/2023/11/30/resilience-another-advantage-of-openly-licensed-content/