Copyright's impact on data mining in academic research
This empirical paper discusses how copyright affects data mining by academic researchers.
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What ETH Zurich paid to Elsevier, Springer and Wiley
By paying 3.5 Mio CHF for Elsevier journals in 2014 the ETH tops all British universities..
CORE - COnnecting REpositories
The mission of CORE is to aggregate all open access research outputs from repositories and journals worldwide and make them available to the public.
Investigation of the degree to which articles supported by research grants
This study uses a bibliometric method to examine the relationship between two journal characteristics during 2009–2013: the article processing charges and the percentage of published articles based on work that is supported by grant-funded articles.
Why Wikipedia + Open Access = Revolution
The way scientific information diffuses through the knowledge economy is changing, and the first evidence from Wikipedia shows how.
Greek scientists lose access to digital journals
The country's economic crisis is hitting researchers hard.
Dutch universities start their Elsevier boycott plan
The Netherlands are negotiating with publishers about an OA policy. They managed to achieve agreements with some publishers, but not with Elsevier.
HEFCE, Elsevier, the "copy request" button, and the future of open access
How does the future for open access look?
Elsevier cracks down on pirated scientific articles
Elsevier has filed a complaint hoping to shut down websites which are particularly popular in developing nations where access to academic works is relatively expensive.
The inevitable failure of parasitic green open access
by Michael Eisen, co-Founder of PLoS
What the Open-Access Movement Doesn't Want You to Know
Advocates of open access tell only one side of the story, ignoring the exploitative practices and poor quality of many open-access journals.
Russia denied access to west's science journals
Russian government failed to pay for the subscription for 2014 to the amount of €890,000 (US$1 million).
Statement against Elsevier's sharing policy
Elsevier announced a new sharing and hosting policy for Elsevier journal articles.
Publisher sacks 31 editors amid fierce row over independence
Frontiers, based in Lausanne, removed 31 editors from two journals after the editors complained that company staff were interfering with editorial decisions and violating core principles of medical publishing.
Are publisher profits justifiable?
It’s widely recognised that the established scholarly publishers skim an awful lot of money off the top of research budgets.
Researchers to take on publishers over new EU copyright laws
Intense lobbying by scientists and journal publishing companies between now and the autumn is expected.
Disrupting the subscription journals' business model for the necessary large-scale transformation to open access
Disrupting the subscription journals' business model for the necessary large-scale transformation to open access
This paper makes the strong, fact-based case for a large-scale transformation of the current corpus of scientific subscription journals to an open access business model.
Area-wide transition to open access is possible
The Max Planck Digital Library has put forward a study on the transformation of the subscription-driven system for scientific publications to an Open Access model. For the first time, quantitative parameters are presented showing that the liberation of scholarly literature is possible at no extra costs..
How to comply with funders' open access policies
Navigating the various requirements can be difficult and time consuming for authors. Every funding agency seems to have slightly different specifics to their OA policies and each paper has multiple authors with multiple funding agencies supporting their research.
Don't think Open Access is important? It might have prevented much of the Ebola outbreak
Don't think Open Access is important? It might have prevented much of the Ebola outbreak
Open access isn't just some "free culture" refrain. It really matters and can save lives.
The open access advantage considering citation, article usage and social media attention
The open access advantage considering citation, article usage and social media attention
Study comparing the difference in the impact between open access and non-open access articles.
RCUK publishes first independent review of its open access policy
The first of a number of independent reviews of the policy during the transition period (five years from the policy being introduced), and covers the first 16 months, April 2013 to July 1014, of the policy’s implementation.
The Hague Declaration
The Hague Declaration aims to foster agreement about how to best enable access to facts, data and ideas for knowledge discovery in the Digital Age. Following a period of public comment, our global experts are now preparing the final version of the text.
NSF unveils plan to make scientific papers free
Scientific journal articles will become freely available, thanks to new policies at major U.S. science agencies.
On the importance of being negative
Negative findings matter too and new OA publications are helping researchers to give a fuller account of themselves.
An analysis of Wellcome Trust OA spend
To help make the costs around open access more transparent, the Wellcome Trust has published details on how much it spent on article processing charges in the year 2013-14.
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Scholarly articles are distributed almost exclusively in digital form. While there is an increasing number of journal articles freely available via green or gold open access, the majority of them still can only be read if the reader works at an institution with a subscription to the journal..
Why scholarly communication can't be free
The ‘no costs’ fallacy is based on the idea that for a commercial publisher, manuscripts are free, peer review is free, editorial boards are free, and electronic dissemination is free.
Open discussion with Michael Eisen
Michael Eisen co-founded the Public Library of Science, publisher of open access journals including PLOS ONE.
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