Some new news on #openaccess and #altmetrics

Some traditional publishers have recently unveiled a plan called CHORUS which is essentially a way for them to maintain their cash flow and the status quo.  This is a response to the OSTP recommendation, "Expanding Public Access to the Results of Federally Funded Research."  They do not want to let go of their stranglehold over the scholarly communication system.  I am assuming that the government agencies are not going to buy this ploy.

This article at Inside Higher Ed covers the topic pretty well. http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/06/05/publishers-universities-both-prep-open-access-plans - How To Provide Open Access? The articles notes that “scholarly publishers want to keep hosting taxpayer-funded research that will soon be made public free of charge. The publishers unveiled a plan to do so Tuesday.”

The response from OA supporters has been less than enthusaistic. See:

• A CHORUS of boos: publishers offer their “solution” to public access - http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=1382
• http://gavialib.com/2013/06/chorus-hoping-for-re-enclosure/
• http://enjoythedisruption.com/post/52216808588/chorus-its-actually-spelled-c-a-b-a-l
• http://pascophronesis.wordpress.com/2013/06/04/scientific-publishers-aim-to-get-ahead-of-agency-repositories/
• http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/publishers-propose-public-private-partnership-to-support-access-to-research/44005 (Heather Joseph from ARL / SPARC noted: “It’s hard to judge the merits of Chorus based on the document being circulated, but it ‘seems like very much of a restatement of the status quo,’ she said via e-mail. Under the plan as it’s been explained so far, ‘publishers will still continue to control the sole point of access to publicly funded articles.’”)

Here are the new Altmetric items of interest.

• Riding the crest of the altmetrics wave via @researchremix @jasonpriem C&RL News June 2013 [Jason Priem is going to be speaking at SLA at the session, “Next Generation Sci-Tech Librarians: Helping Institutions and Researchers Increase Their Impact” (http://bit.ly/18X4OMH and https://www.sla.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/NextGenSciTechLibrarians_Priem.pdf) Co-author Heather Piwowar (@researchremix) also works with Jason at ImpactStory.]
• Rise of 'Altmetrics' Revives Questions About How to Measure Impact of Research - The Chronicle
• The Proof of the Proxy: #Altmetrics, Impact, and Use by @sp_meta  

[Edit: I should have noted that many of these links were found via John's post to the LSW.]

[Edit2: Here are two other recent posts in the Chronicle that I missed.

• Reliance on 3rd-Party Data Creates Uncertainty for 'Altmetrics' Providers
• New Metrics Providers Help Keep Libraries in the Research-Tracking Game]