Selected Google Plus posts

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I blogged at Google Plus (G+) from July 9, 2011 to November 5, 2018. In October 2018, Google announced that it would terminate G+ for users like me, and delete all our posts. I was not happy about it.

I began saving my G+ posts to the Internet Archive (IA) and Conifer (then called WebRecorder). I saved a small fraction to the IA, and nearly all of them to Conifer.

Here are some of my major G+ posts. I list them here with the original G+ URLs (even if they're mostly useless after April 2019) and the newer, permanent URLs for preservation copies at IA and Conifer. —Peter Suber.




More than anyone wants to know about my position on delayed OA for books, even books about OA, June 24, 2012. At G+. At IA. [At Conifer].

Want to improve access to research on glyphosate? Try harder than the Glyphosate Task Force, August 25, 2016. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

Reasons not to pay APCs at hybrid journals, November 5, 2018. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

A short open letter to Google on minimizing the damage of shutting down Google Plus, October 20, 2018. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

Readings for Open Access Week 2018, October 19, 2018. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

Elaborating on a tweet, September 10, 2018. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

Thoughts on Plan S, September 4, 2018. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

[Spam request from a spam journal], July 23, 2018. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

China is restricting the export of science, July 23, 2018. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

Darrell Issa as co-winner of this year's ALA James Madison Award, March 11, 2018. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

Another side of academic freedom: Freedom from undue corporate influence, February 26, 2018. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

Half a dozen reasons why I support the Jussieu Call for Open Science and Bibliodiversity, November 11, 2017. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

Still true: 70% of peer-reviewed OA journals charge no APCs, October 26, 2017. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

[Comparing sexual assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby and Donald Trump], October 16, 2017. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

Student programming volunteers assist an #openaccess project. Let's generalize this idea. October 8, 2017. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

Correcting the record on the Harvard OA license, July 27, 2017. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

[Solicitation from a scam journal], July 21, 2017. At G+. At IA. [At Conifer].

Some evidence of the demand for research literature by nonprofessionals, July 19, 2017. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

Evaluating an OA journal you haven't heard of, April 27, 2017. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

The winter coat factor: A small spring thought, April 17, 2017. At G+. At IA. [At Conifer].

How US OA policies are faring under Trump, April 2, 2017. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

Happy 15th birthday to the Budapest Open Access Initiative, February 14, 2017. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

Mark Walport to oversee the public funding of research in the UK, February 10, 2017. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

Gates Foundation pressuring journals or vice versa? January 13, 2017. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

Journalists who fear that open access to public records will encroach on their scoops and exclusivity, October 1, 2016. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump on science, September 23, 2016. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

Not long-winded, just careful, July 22, 2016. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

More evidence that faculty can accept large-scale journal cancellations, July 4, 2016. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

Counting fee-based and no-fee #openaccess journals, May 24, 2016. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

A few thoughts on Sci-Hub, March 13, 2016. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

Comments on the VSNU-Elsevier deal, December 12, 2015. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

How can the US can help France? November 16, 2015. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

Confirmed again: high quality and #openaccess go hand in hand. November 12, 2015. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

Time to consider OA mandates from ethics committees, October 20, 2015. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

Sly, sweeping idea from Cory Doctorow, October 12, 2015. At G+. At IA. [At Conifer].

Robin Peek, 1958-2015, August 25, 2015. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

Publishers arguing badly for longer embargoes, again, April 21, 2015. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

New OA mandate from the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), February 9, 2015. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

Harvard's 11 announcements for Open Access Week 2014, October 24, 2014. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

The next frontier: beaming open-access articles by satellite beyond the conventional internet, September 26, 2014. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

The last Word, August 16, 2014. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

The open-access policy from the Department of Energy, August 4, 2014. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

Elsevier's 50-day tease, June 20, 2014. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

Don't buy the IEEE edition of my book, May 31, 2014. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

Large majority of small sample of society publishers fears open access, May 27, 2014. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

Allowing unembargoed green OA is good for business, January 26, 2014. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

New open-access mandates in the US, January 17, 2014. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

What doesn't justify longer embargoes on publicly-funded research, January 11, 2014. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

NISO proposal for metadata to describe varieties of open access, January 6, 2014. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

Will the Netherlands mandate gold open access? November 17, 2013. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

Victory for Google over the Authors Guild: Victory for opt-out mass digitization, search indexing, fair use, and the public interest, November 14, 2013. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

Update on my book on open access, October 23, 2013. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

2009 reflection on the 2013 Bohannon sting, October 7, 2013. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

New "sting" of weak open-access journals, October 3, 2013. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

Research project for computer scientists. September 16, 2013. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

800+ scholarly societies embrace open access. Update, September 16, 2013. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

A major new report calls on the UK to improve its "mistaken" OA policy, September 9, 2013. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

Where are the federal agency open-access policies? August 23, 2013. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

Once more: There's seldom a trade-off between prestige and open access, June 9, 2013. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

[Comments on CHORUS], June 7, 2013. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

Wellcome Trust extends its OA mandate from articles to books, May 30, 2013. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

We can do better than journal impact factors, May 18, 2013. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

Elsevier, NewsCorp, Facebook, and Yahoo join ignorant attack on open access, May 17, 2013. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

Open letters from Nobel laureates supporting open access, April 30, 2013. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

A misleading survey, April 5, 2013. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

Creationists still hoping that OA will boost their cause, April 3, 2013. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

Some numbers from the Directory of Open Access Journals, March 27, 2013. At G+. [At IA]. At Conifer.

Editorial board resigns from T&F journal to protest restrictive licensing, March 24, 2013. At G+. At IA. [At Conifer].

Second shoe drops: new White House Directive mandates OA, February 22, 2013. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

The legal threats against Jeffrey Beall, February 16, 2013. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

Major new bill mandating open access introduced in Congress, February 14, 2013. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

How often do authors at fee-based OA journals pay the fees out of pocket? February 1, 2013. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

  • Continued in a new blog post from May 13, 2020, which I hope to keep up to date.

Aaron Swartz, 1986-2013. January 12, 2013. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

Benefits of open access for publishers, December 19, 2012, At G+. [At IA]. At Conifer.

Jeffrey Beall is the target of a dishonest smear campaign, December 8, 2012. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

More on how scam journals are giving OA a bad name, December 4, 2012. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

Open-access journals cost 10-12% less to produce than toll-access journals of the same quality, November 26, 2012. At G+. At IA. [At Conifer].

Weakening the OA policy in the EU, November 15, 2012. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

Gold OA mandate at AusAID, August 28, 2012. At G+. [At IA]. At Conifer.

Clarification of the new open-access policy at the Research Councils UK (RCUK), August 22, 2012. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

More than anyone wants to know about my position on delayed OA for books, even books about OA, June 24, 2012. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

Happy birthday, Nomic, June 16, 2012. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

OA mandates do not violate US copyright law, June 1, 2012. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

My letter to an Elsevier journal, May 9, 2012. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.

Comments on the RCUK's draft new OA policy, March 16, 2012. At G+. At IA. At Conifer.