#oatp — Public Fediverse posts
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1/ Today is the 17th birthday of the Open Access Tracking Project (#OATP, @oatp).
http://bit.ly/o-a-t-p🧵
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1/ I'm seeking expressions of interest from nonprofit organizations to take over the Open Access Tracking Project (#OATP, @oatp) and the open-source software (#TagTeam) on which it runs.
Details in this Google doc:
https://bit.ly/TransferOATPContact me <[email protected]> if you have any questions or any level of interest.
#OpenAccess #OpenScience #OpenSource #ScholComm
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Kudos to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (#HHMI) for strengthening its 2022 #OpenAccess policy to require the immediate sharing of new research through #preprints under #CCBY licenses.
https://hhmicdn.blob.core.windows.net/policies/Immediate-Access-to-Research.pdfThis kind of policy is often called #Plan_U, though HHMI doesn't use that term. The policy takes effect January 1, 2026.
For background, here are the items tagged with "oa.plan_u" in the Open Access Tracking Project (#OATP, @oatp).
https://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/item_search?q=oa.plan_u -
Kudos to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (#HHMI) for strengthening its 2022 #OpenAccess policy to require the immediate sharing of new research through #preprints under #CCBY licenses.
https://hhmicdn.blob.core.windows.net/policies/Immediate-Access-to-Research.pdfThis kind of policy is often called #Plan_U, though HHMI doesn't use that term. The policy takes effect January 1, 2026.
For background, here are the items tagged with "oa.plan_u" in the Open Access Tracking Project (#OATP, @oatp).
https://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/item_search?q=oa.plan_u -
Kudos to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (#HHMI) for strengthening its 2022 #OpenAccess policy to require the immediate sharing of new research through #preprints under #CCBY licenses.
https://hhmicdn.blob.core.windows.net/policies/Immediate-Access-to-Research.pdfThis kind of policy is often called #Plan_U, though HHMI doesn't use that term. The policy takes effect January 1, 2026.
For background, here are the items tagged with "oa.plan_u" in the Open Access Tracking Project (#OATP, @oatp).
https://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/item_search?q=oa.plan_u -
Kudos to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (#HHMI) for strengthening its 2022 #OpenAccess policy to require the immediate sharing of new research through #preprints under #CCBY licenses.
https://hhmicdn.blob.core.windows.net/policies/Immediate-Access-to-Research.pdfThis kind of policy is often called #Plan_U, though HHMI doesn't use that term. The policy takes effect January 1, 2026.
For background, here are the items tagged with "oa.plan_u" in the Open Access Tracking Project (#OATP, @oatp).
https://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/item_search?q=oa.plan_u -
Kudos to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (#HHMI) for strengthening its 2022 #OpenAccess policy to require the immediate sharing of new research through #preprints under #CCBY licenses.
https://hhmicdn.blob.core.windows.net/policies/Immediate-Access-to-Research.pdfThis kind of policy is often called #Plan_U, though HHMI doesn't use that term. The policy takes effect January 1, 2026.
For background, here are the items tagged with "oa.plan_u" in the Open Access Tracking Project (#OATP, @oatp).
https://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/item_search?q=oa.plan_u -
I launched the Open Access Tracking Project (#OATP, @oatp) in 2009 and #TagTeam in 2011, and have run them ever since. In that time they've been widely used but seldom reviewed. This morning I was taken by surprise when I saw the lengthy review by Lilly Hoi Sze Ho.
https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/resource-reviews/2025/living-archive-open-access-movement-next-chapterI was surprised mostly because I had no idea it was coming. (It's a review, and I understand why she didn't contact me first.) But it's also surprisingly positive, surprisingly detailed, and surprisingly accurate. Recommended.
It's true (as she reports) that I'm trying to pass both projects on to new hands.
https://bit.ly/TransferOATPI can add the update that I might soon succeed. I'm talking now with several nonprofits whose names you'd recognize as major players in the world of #OpenAccess.
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4/ But #OATP can't be the only #crowdsourced component of this project.
First, many people who'd like to contribute would rather post to #SocialMedia or contribute to #Wikipedia than tag for a tagging project.
Second, the scope of OATP has is narrower than many contributors would like.
Third, OATP itself has an uncertain future.
https://bit.ly/TransferOATP -
I'm seeking expressions of interest from nonprofit organizations to take over the Open Access Tracking Project (#OATP, @oatp) and the open-source software on which it runs.
Details in this Google doc:
https://bit.ly/TransferOATPContact me <[email protected]> if you have any questions or any level of interest.
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The Open Access Tracking Project (@oatp, #oatp) is down briefly while we work on #TagTeam, the software on which it runs. Apologies for the inconvenience.
One of the best pieces to appear since OATP went down, and one of the best to appear in a long time, is Arash Abizadeh's piece in The Guardian, "Academic journals are a lucrative scam – and we’re determined to change that." Highly recommended.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/16/academic-journal-publishers-universities-price-subscriptions