An online interview with Ashley Farley, program officer of Knowledge and Research Services at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. As of 2023, the Gates Foundation earmarks some 8,000,000,000 US Dollars annually to its various philanthropic goals. Focusing on global health and global development, the Gates Foundation supports a wide range of research and development activities in fields such as child nutrition, family planning, eradication of poverty and diseases, etc. In this podcast, Farley explains why open research lies at the heart of the Gates Foundation’s strategies.

More details, including a transcript of the entire episode, can be found at doi.org/10.7557/19.6945.

#49 The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as promoter of Open Research

Stephanie Veldman and Arjan van Dijk of Brill Publishing reveal the economic mechanisms and strategic thinking behind their work in open access. A 340-year-old publishing house with strong credentials in the Humanities and Social Sciences in particular, it publishes some 1,400 academic books and more than 300 peer-reviewed journals annually. About 10% of its books are published in open access and 10% of its journals operate according to the Diamond Open Access model. Brill is working to see these figures rise.

Further details, including a transcript of the entire episode, can be found at https://doi.org/10.7557/19.7130.

#50 Brill And Open Access

Our November Epistemicast Roundtables will focus on the life and Legacy of Aaron Swartz. Ahead of this, in this edition of the podcast we speak with Renate Kriel of Net:Art, with a focus on the Aaron’s Law artistic-technical project series she has been running across Austria throughout the year.

We explore what Renate has learned about Swartz, how his passion for Open Access relates to the arts, and we learn about how today’s artists have interpreted his enormous legacy.

Net:Art Website: https://www.netart.cc/

Aaron’s Law Project Series: https://www.netart.cc/aarons-law

September 23, 2023 Project at the Ars Electronica: https://ars.electronica.art/who-owns-the-truth/de/aarons-law/

Aaron’s Law - An artistic-technical project series celebrating the life of Aaron Swartz

The current academic publishing landscape faces a lack of structured leadership and growing challenges in maintaining research integrity. The need for a more professionalized peer review process is pressing, and amidst this quest for answers, the innovative potential of www.PeerReviewMe.org emerges as a beacon of possibility. By offering a platform that structures participation and professionalizes the quality of peer review, PeerReviewMe.org could reshape scholarly communication.

Here Sven Fund, Managing Director of ReviewerCredits.com, talks about his vision of commercialized peer review and the integration of Reviewer Credits with the multi-tiered approach of the PeerReviewMe.org system.

Here are seven real-world examples, beginning with crowd review and pre-review services and ending with advanced image forensics and paid error spotters. From least intense/generalized to professionalized/specific each tier illuminates the transformative impact Reviewer Credits could have on pushing us towards a more structured and professionalized version of peer reviewed scholarly research.

Crowd Review
Pre-Review Services
Traditional Peer Review
Image Forensic Services
Paid Error Spotters

Sven Fund, Managing Director of Reviewer Credits says, “I feel that publishers ned to acknowledge that they need to invest more going forward in research integrity...more than just talk"

In summary, PeerReviewMe.org represent a paradigm shift in scholarly peer review, offering a versatile platform that enhances collaboration, transparency, and quality assurance in academic publishing.

By recognizing and incentivizing the invaluable contributions of PeerReviewMe.org, Reviewer Credits could propel the scholarly community towards a future of excellence and integrity with a new series of expanded and structured peer review services offered in this article.

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In a timely challenge to the potent political role of digital technology, Cyberlibertarianism: The Right-Wing Politics of Digital Technology argues that right-wing ideology was built into both the technical and social construction of the digital world from the start. Leveraging more than a decade of research, David Golumbia, who passed away in 2023, traced how digital evangelism has driven a worldwide shift toward the political right, concealing inequality, xenophobia, dishonesty, and massive corporate concentrations of wealth and power beneath the idealistic presumption of digital technology as an inherent social good. George Justice wrote the foreword to Cyberlibertarianism, and is joined in conversation with Frank Pasquale.


George Justice is professor of English literature and provost at the University of Tulsa.

Frank Pasquale is professor of law at Cornell Tech and Cornell Law School.

David Golumbia (1963–2023) was associate professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University and author of Cyberlibertarianism: The Right-Wing Politics of Digital Technology; The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism; and The Cultural Logic of Computation.



EPISODE REFERENCES:
Tim Wu
Lawrence Lessig
Wikileaks
David E. Pozen: Transparency’s Ideological Drift https://openyls.law.yale.edu/handle/20.500.13051/10354
Stefanos Geroulanos / Transparency in Postwar France
#CreateDontScrape
David Golumbia / ChatGPT Should Not Exist (article)
M. T. Anderson / Feed
Jonathan Crary / Scorched Earth


"If you want to understand the origins of our information hellscape with its vast new inequalities, corrupt information, algorithmic control, population-scale behavioral manipulation, and wholesale destruction of privacy, then begin here."
—Shoshana Zuboff, author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

"Cyberlibertarianism is essential for understanding the contemporary moment and the recent past that got us here. It stands as a monumental magnum opus from a meticulous thinker and sharp social critic who is sorely missed."
—Sarah T. Roberts, director, Center for Critical Internet Inquiry, UCLA


Cyberlibertarianism: The Right-Wing Politics of Digital Technology is available from University of Minnesota Press.

Cyberlibertarianism and the fraught politics of the internet

EpistemiCast is the podcast series for people with an interest in data that underpins human knowledge.

With a focus on the challenges and opportunities around long-term preservation, accessibility, sharing and collaboration: we bring you interviews with leading the minds from across academia, business and scientific research,  government and the cultural and creative industries.

Scholarly Open Access Publishing, is dedicated to expanding the open access publishing discussion and fostering initiatives of our membership.



Through a multifaceted approach encompassing education, collaboration, and networking, we aim to provide a vibrant platform for diverse opinions, commentary, and ideas in the realm of scholarly dissemination.



From highlighting new developments to interpreting research findings and engaging in thought-provoking discussions, we are committed to nurturing open access initiatives that contribute to the enhancement of scholarly knowledge and discourse.

A podcast about Open Science, Open Access, Open Education, Open Data, Open Software ... pretty much «open anything». Produced by the University Library at UIT The Arctic University of Norway. Founder and host of episodes 1-31: Erik Lieungh. Host from episode 32 onwards: Per Pippin Aspaas.

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