Europe PMC's Response to the Implementation Guidance of Plan S
Europe PMC’s mission to support innovation based on open access content is well aligned with the fundamental principles of Plan S.
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Plan S and Open Access in Latin America
Open Access publishing is more widespread in Latin America than in any other region of the world, and continues to grow. We sat down with CLACSO's Open Access Advisor Dominique Babini to find out why.
Feedback to Coalition S on Plan S Implementation Guidelines
An argument that Coalition members should favour, both in words and via their spending decisions, community-controlled, no-author-fee journals over commercially owned journals charging APCs, in order to give due consideration to the non-commercial elements of the scholarly publishing ecosystem.
Thousands of Scientists Run Up Against Elsevier's Paywall
Researchers have been left without access to new papers as libraries and the major publisher fail to agree on subscription deals.
Got an Unpopular Opinion About Open Access? Admit It at Your Own Risk
Everyone appears to be behind open access, but scratch the surface and you'll find that it's something of a touchy subject in academia, says Rachael Pells.
Austria: Five Leading Universities and Most Important Funder Unite to Support the Open Library of Humanities
Austria: Five Leading Universities and Most Important Funder Unite to Support the Open Library of Humanities
Five Austrian institutions, including the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna as Higher Supporters, have come together to begin work on a national consortium to support the Open Library of Humanities.
Open Access Working Group: Statement on Plan S Guidelines - LIBER
The recently published guidance for the implementation of Plan S offers welcome new details on how full and immediate Open Access to research publications would be achieved under this new initiative.
A Change of Plan for UK Open Access?
David Kernohan previews Adam Tickell's advice to the minister on open access.
Dutch Universities Give Open Access Another Boost
The Dutch universities will give open access an extra boost from 2019 by starting a pilot titled ‘You share, we take ca ...
Few Open-access Journals Meet Requirements of Plan S, Study Says
Smaller publishers may struggle to afford costs of satisfying open-access initiative's rules.
Leveraging Concepts in Open Access Publications
This paper addresses the integration of a Named Entity Recognition and Disambiguation (NERD) service within a group of open access (OA) publishing digital platforms and considers its potential impact on both research and scholarly publishing.
Open Access Books Attract Many More Readers and Slightly More Citations
Academics who offer their books free online reach many more readers and are cited slightly more often. Surprisingly enough, it has little effect on the sale of paper editions, positive or negative.
A Response to UCL's "Response to Plan S"
A response from Robert Kiley, Head of Open Research at the Wellcome Trust, to UCL’s “Response to Plan S”.
Plan U
Plan U: A proposal to achieve universal access to scientific and medical research via funder preprint mandates.
Guest Post: Supporting a Connected Galaxy of Knowledge - The Scholarly Kitchen
Guest Post: Supporting a Connected Galaxy of Knowledge - The Scholarly Kitchen
Elsevier's Gaby Appleton expands on some of the themes she discussed during the recent STM Association's panel debate on 'The future of access" and the work Elsevier is doing in these areas.
FinELib's Negotiations with Taylor & Francis Hit a Wall - FinELib
Negotiations between the FinELib consortium and Taylor & Francis ended with no positive results. The end of the negotiations means that access to Taylor & Francis journals will end on 1 February 2019.
PRESS RELEASE: Researchers Respond to Implementation of Plan S | Eurodoc
Read the joint response to the implementation guidance forPlan S as issued by three organisations representing early-career and senior researchers in Europe.
AmeliCA Vs Plan S: Same Target, Two Different Strategies to Achieve Open Access
AmeliCA is a multi-institutional community-driven initiative supported by UNESCO that arises in response to the international, regional, national and institutional contexts of Open Access, which seeks a collaborative, sustainable, protected and non-commercial solution for Open Knowledge in Latin America and the Global South.
Pharmaceutical Companies Follow Public Funders of Research in Efforts to Reform Science Publishing
Pharmaceutical Companies Follow Public Funders of Research in Efforts to Reform Science Publishing
Open Pharma, which works with pharma to drive fast and transparent medical publishing, is encouraging pharmaceutical companies to use their influence more.
Plan S Falls Short for Society Publishers - and for the Researchers They Serve
The proposal known as Plan S has the admirable aim of achieving full OA across a wide swath of journal publications. But the path currently suggested has serious drawbacks that could jeopardize nonprofit science societies.
Additional Points in My Plan S Response
Further to my other post earlier this week, I have added the additional points to my response letter to the Plan S implementation guidelines. These centre around monographs (9), REF involvement in Plan S (10), infrastructural support (11), the "time of publication" (12), clarification of the term "quality" (13), compliance of existing software with repository requirements (14), publisher deposition (15), and the ability to pursue defamation suits for wrongful attribution and reputational damage with the waiver of moral rights under CC BY 4.0 (16). If number 16 could be resolved, the open licensing landscape would be much clearer. The full letter is now available.
Launching the OLH Advocacy Network
In 2018, the OLH launched the EmpowOA programme, designed to provide scholars and librarians working in the humanities with tools, spaces and cogent arguments about open access. Now, the OLH extend the functionality for the visitors to the website
The Ascent of Open Access Report
The Ascent of Open Access analyses the Open Access landscape since the turn of the millennium. A key finding of the report is that the volume of Open Access articles has clearly been rising in recent years
What BioRxiv's First 30,000 Preprints Reveal About Biologists
More than 1 million studies are now downloaded from the site every month, mostly in neuroscience, bioinformatics and genomics.
My Draft Plan S Implementation Guidance Feedback
I write to provide feedback in an individual capacity on the Plan S implementation guidelines.
Policy Without Practice
Does it matter that there's no record of the Plan S leader publishing in a peer-reviewed journal?
European Parliament Petition on Elsevier and the Open Science Monitor - Green Tea and Velociraptors
European Parliament Petition on Elsevier and the Open Science Monitor - Green Tea and Velociraptors
Elsevier's role in the EU's Open Science Monitor is examined more closely.
Harvard Library and MIT Libraries Provide Recommendations for Plan S Implementation
Harvard Library and MIT Libraries Provide Recommendations for Plan S Implementation
Harvard Library and the MIT Libraries are in broad support of Plan S and its goals while also recomending certain adjustments to the implementation details.
Who Are You Writing For? The Role of Community Membership on Authors' Decisions to Publish in Open Access Mega-Journals
Who Are You Writing For? The Role of Community Membership on Authors' Decisions to Publish in Open Access Mega-Journals
Open Access mega-journals have in some academic disciplines become a key channel for communicating research. In others, however, they remain unknown. This article explores how authors’ perceptions of mega-journals differ across disciplines and are shaped by motivations associated with the multiple communities they function within.
Change Ahead: How Do Smaller Publishers Perceive Open Access?
Reporting results from a comprehensive survey of publishers in the German-speaking world, Christian Kaier and Karin Lackner explore the attitudes of smaller publishers towards open access, finding …
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