Ross Mounce

Open knowledge enthusiast. Creates and maintains. Director of Open Access Programmes at Arcadia Fund.

Recognises that access to knowledge is a human right.

Software Sustainability Institute Fellow (2016 Inauguration)
Panton Fellow for Open Data (2012)

Current distro: MX Linux

#OpenAccess #OpenData #OpenSource #OpenStandards #OpenResearch #Wikipedia #Wikidata #iNaturalist #CreativeCommons #RightsRetention #Preprints #OpenPeerReview #RecordOfVersions #Rstats #DiamondOA #DORA tfr

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3520-2046
Blog: https://rossmounce.co.uk/
GitHub: https://github.com/rossmounce/

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2026-01-22 09:57:50 UTC

Given all the news about ICE in the past few weeks, can I kindly remind you all that RELX (owners of Elsevier & LexisNexis) is "mission-critical" to ICE.
ICE pays RELX Group and Thomson Reuters millions of dollars for the personal data it needs to fuel its big data policing program.
https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2019/ice-surveillance/
see also the book 'Data Cartels' (2022) by Sarah Lamdan.
#Elsevier #RELX #ICE #complicity

2025-11-10 11:58:25 UTC

Oxford and Harvard libraries now publishing their own diamond open access journals. Love it. ❤️
Paying hundreds of millions to big commercial publishers isn't the only way of supporting researchers to publish their research.
Oxford: https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/shox#collapse5381526
Harvard: https://library.harvard.edu/about/news/2024-04-23/harvard-library-launching-harvard-open-journals-program
#DiamondOA #OpenAccess

2025-08-26 09:28:50 UTC

Elsevier "hybrid" journal called _Ecological Modelling_ which charges an APC of USD 3,040 (excluding taxes)...
...publishes THIS abomination as a graphical abstract. 🤣
Source:
Zhao et al (2025) Designing Ecological Networks to Foster Regional Economic Sustainability: source identification in the Longdong Loess Plateau using self-organizing map and complex network theory. Ecological Modelling, Volume 509, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2025.111211
HT @npub103q…sgdm
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2025-04-16 09:02:13 UTC

Geographical and disciplinary coverage of open access journals: OpenAlex, Scopus, and WoS
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0320347
"Among the 62,701 active OA journals listed in ROAD, the WoS indexes 6,157 journals, Scopus indexes 7,351, while OpenAlex indexes 34,217. A striking observation is the presence of 24,976 OA journals exclusively in OpenAlex, whereas only 182 journals are exclusively present in the WoS and 373 in Scopus."
#OpenAccess

2025-04-15 09:53:49 UTC

Testing out Knowledge Commons by uploading some of my works there...
I like it! Nice to be able to re-use my blog posts that have DOI's and have a platform that recognises that blog posts _can_ have DOI's
https://works.hcommons.org/records/z0ktf-ne905
What with repositories facing AI-scraper-strain, I figure it's good to have copies of my research deposited in MULTIPLE locations. #Resilience
#OpenAccess
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2025-01-09 11:19:24 UTC

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"The economic value of the outgoing traffic... based on the cost-per-click estimated via the Google Ads platform showed that the owners of external websites linked from Wikipedia infoboxes would need to collectively
pay a total of around $7-13 million per month (or $84-156 million per year) to obtain the same volume of traffic as they receive from Wikipedia for free."
!!

2025-01-09 11:17:34 UTC

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"The second most clicked domain is doi.org, the domain for all scholarly articles, reports, and datasets recorded with a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), followed by (mostly liberal) newspapers (The New York Times, The Guardian) and broadcasting channels (BBC)..."

2025-01-09 11:16:47 UTC

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"Most of the traffic from Wikipedia is directed to archive.org (882K clicks), hosting the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine..."

2025-01-09 11:14:31 UTC

Reading:
Navigating Knowledge: Patterns and
Insights from Wikipedia Consumption
by Tiziano Piccardi & Robert West
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.00939
"Google returns Wikipedia articles on the first page of results for 67%-85% of the queries, depending on the type of searched content..."
#WikiResearch

2024-11-21 14:38:02 UTC

Lovely to learn more about University of Ljubljana Press (Slovenia) https://journals.uni-lj.si/
It publishes 56 international scientific journals, most follow the diamond open access diamond model.
It is one of the largest academic publishers in Slovenia and Central Europe
#OpenAccess #DiamondOA #Slovenia

2024-10-26 19:24:43 UTC

Thanks Clarivate. Making it even easier for people to choose to support @npub10qx…kwm3 now 😉
If Clarivate de-indexes eLife (where the scientific community _rightly_ chooses to publish great research), Clarivate will propel itself toward becoming the next Encyclopaedia Britannica. Keep digging Clarivate, the grave is nearly deep enough now!
https://www.science.org/content/article/web-science-index-puts-elife-hold-because-its-radical-publishing-model
#OpenResearchInformation

2024-09-24 21:39:36 UTC

Elsevier selling access to an open access article, again (2024 edition) https://rossmounce.co.uk/2024/09/24/elsevier-selling-access-to-an-open-access-article-again-2024-edition/
article that I believe to be 'mistakenly' on sale is here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comtox.2017.10.001
the version at PMC clearly states it's an open access article 🤷‍♂️ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5695905/
#OpenAccess #Ethics #NotIllegalButSketchy #ElsevierDoesItAgain #PaywallWatch

2024-09-23 10:26:25 UTC

Friendly warning for those seeking to fill out the UNESCO survey "Consultation on a Global Diamond Open Access Framework" ... it takes a long long time to fill out if you're trying to answer each question properly :S
Like, schedule at least 30-45mins for yourself to get it done!
#OpenScience #OpenAccess