SPARC M.O.R.E. Poster Session
At last month's SPARC Meeting on Open Research and Education I presented a poster which showed two specific examples of a hypothetical e-mail which OA publishers could send to authors of cited sources. The examplar publishers were two gold O.A. publisers: TransModernity, published by the eScholarship Initiative of the University of California, and PLOS Genetics.
Here are links to a teaser slide, a two minute talk to accompany the slide, the poster, and each of the letters.
Seeing these examples fully crafted were excellent foils for discussing the self-interest of publishers to do this, the automation that would be required to do it at scale, and the potential impact for a scholar receiving such a letter (with a cc. to their university's scholarly publishing office).
The conversations with publishers, repository managers, practicing scholars, and technology providers surfaced a number of new ideas.
The letter to a humanities scholar cited by TransModernity.
The letter to a STEM scholar cited by PLOS Genetics.
I'm always interested in feedback and ideas.