OA papers ‘gain more traffic and citations’
Open access science articles are read and cited more often than articles available only to subscribers, a study has suggested.
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Being Human
Open Access and Being Human Dr Martin Paul Eve, co-founder of the Open Library of the Humanities and editor of the open access journal Alluviun, reflects on Open Access engagement, and the politics of information management in a digital age.
Incentivizing peer-review
Under current scientific publishing norms, most research – including, but not limited to, the analysis of thin circular objects – is accessible only to high-paying institutions.
How the transition to Open Access could be accelerated by libraries working together
How the transition to Open Access could be accelerated by libraries working together
Libraries are in a good position to push Open Access even further, as they currently fully pay the production costs of the traditional subscription model.
Taylor & Francis survey 2014
With responses to both the 2013 and 2014 survey given side-by-side, you can easily see how attitudes have changed. Alongside this, the 2014 survey explores many new areas and gives a fascinating insight into authors' current perceptions of open access.
A boost for open access to research
The Research Council of Norway is introducing a new, five-year funding scheme that will cover a significant share of the costs incurred by research institutions for publication in open access journals.
Factsheet from Horizon 2020
Open access to publications and data in Horizon 2020: Frequently Asked Questions.
Elsevier, Springer und Thieme verklagen ETH-Bibliothek und bekommen Recht
Schon seit 2012 weiss man, dass von Elsevier, Springer und Thieme Klage gegen den Dokumentlieferdienst der ETH-Bibliothek eingereicht wurde. Wie es aber weiterging war aber weitgehend unklar. Am 7. April 2014 fand am Handelsgericht des Kanton Zürich die Gerichtsverhandlung statt.
Chinese agencies announce open-access policies
Researchers will now be required to make papers free to read within one year of publication.
It would aid amateur scientific breakthroughs
Discoveries by laypeople are rare but free access to research results would increase the likelihood
OA Button project starts work on Version 2.0
The Open Access Button is seeking £20,000 of funding for Version 2.0 of the tool, which is planned for launch in this October's Open Access Week.
Ten simple rules for the care and feeding of scientific data
By Goodman A, Pepe A, Blocker AW, Borgman CL, Cranmer K, et al. (2014).
Is UK humanities research reaching the widest possible audience?
Report points to 'serious dangers for the international standing of UK research' in humanities and social sciences.
The cost of academic publishing
What could the UK academic community do with £14.5 million? That is what just 19 Universities in the UK are spending in total during a single year on journal subscriptions to a single publisher.
Funders punish open-access dodgers
82% of NIH papers are publicly accessible a year after they are published.
A quite insightful April's fool joke by PLOS founder Michael Eisen
"I co-founded the PLOS in 2002 because I believed deeply that the open access publishing model PLOS espoused and has come to dominate was good for science, scientists and the public."
Open science? Try good science
Is Open Science already here? Not exactly. Open Science is more than a subset of projects that make data available or sharing of software tools, often because they received specific funding to do so.
Die offene Wissenschaft und ihre Freunde
Open Access, Open Science, Science 2.0 - die Titel, unter denen vom Internet eine Beschleunigung des Erkenntnisgewinns erwartet wird, sind vielfältig. Doch wem nützen die entsprechenden Techniken?
Why I don't care about Open Access to research and why you should
Should paywalls stand between the taxpaying public and publicly funded research? Congress recently decided that the answer should be "no."
The exploitative economics of academic publishing
Much of research in the US is inaccessible not only to the public, but also to other scientists. Fortunately, cheap open-access alternatives are not only possible, but already beginning to take root
Developing an effective market for open access article processing charges
Research Councils UK, the Wellcome Trust, the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) and the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics worried about high open access fees charged by “hybrid” journals could refuse to pay fees above a set threshold, a report suggests.
Why it should be a key issue for university leaders
Universities are drowning in digital information. It's time senior leaders made openness – and its consequences – their concern.
Finch report implementation & review
The Finch Report , the Government's acceptance of its key recommendations, the new RCUK policies on open access, and the consultation by the Funding Councils on possible open access requirements for material to be submitted to the REF expected in 2020, have changed the open access landscape in the UK.
No peeking...
Once upon a time, it was common for scientists to receive letters from researchers working in other institutions, asking for reprints of papers they had published ...
Particle-physics papers set free
Tensions as open-access initiative goes live — without the field’s leading journal.
Japan adopts state secrets law
Academics fear secrecy will hinder research into the science behind policy decisions.
Forscher, Bibliotheken und Verleger einigen sich auf Open-Access-Initiative
Schulterschluss in der Teilchenphysik
Argentina makes publicly funded research available
The Congress of Argentina recently passed a landmark law making publicly funded science and technology research publications free and open access.
Posting your latest article? You might have to take it down
Researchers have been receiving notices from Academia.edu with takedown requests from Elsevier.
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