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Is Academic Publishing About to Change?
The open access debate has revealed the complicated and contradictory nature of the academic publishing landscape in which trade unions have a role to play.
DOAJ to Lead a Collaboration to Improve the Preservation of Open Access Journals
DOAJ, the CLOCKSS Archive, Internet Archive, Keepers Registry/ISSN International Centre and Public Knowledge Project (PKP) have agreed to partner to provide an alternative pathway for the preservation of small-scale, APC-free, Open Access journals.
OASPA Founds New Organisation with Future-proof Governance and Funding Structure for the OA Switchboard
OASPA Founds New Organisation with Future-proof Governance and Funding Structure for the OA Switchboard
A neutral, independent intermediary enabling shared infrastructure, bringing transparency, efficiency and cost effectiveness to the open access ecosystem.
India's Plan to Pay Journal Subscription Fees for All Its Citizen May End Up Making Science Harder to Access
India's Plan to Pay Journal Subscription Fees for All Its Citizen May End Up Making Science Harder to Access
All modern scientists should share ownership of their knowledge and research.
Springer Nature and Max Planck Reach Landmark Open Access Deal in Germany
The agreement will allow authors at eligible German institutes to publish papers for fee of about £8500 each
Open Science - Who is Left Behind?
The dominant model of Article Processing Charges, whilst lowering financial barriers for readers, has merely erected a new paywall at the other end of the pipeline, blocking access to publication for less-privileged authors.
Backlist to the Future: a New Business Model for University Presses and Open-Access Books
Backlist to the Future: a New Business Model for University Presses and Open-Access Books
The author is engaged in a project that seeks to convert publishers to business models that will allow them to publish their books openly, without using unaffordable book processing charges (which authors hate and which will not scale). As of today, the first press to take the leap: the Central European University Press can be announced. The model is called “Opening the Future”.
How Open Access Allows for a Greater Diversity of People to Engage with a Discussion
How Open Access Allows for a Greater Diversity of People to Engage with a Discussion
This year's open access week will be talking to a number of researchers.
Nature Journals Announce First Open-Access Agreement
The arrangement will allow some researchers in Germany to publish openly - but critics say it comes with a high price.
Open Access: Challenges and Opportunities for Low- and Middle-Income Countries and the Potential Impact of UK Policy
Open Access: Challenges and Opportunities for Low- and Middle-Income Countries and the Potential Impact of UK Policy
Open Access (OA) is central to the UK Government’s ambitions for research and innovation. Public funders are reviewing their OA policies and working collaboratively to understand how to take forward the Government’s ambitions.
Open Conversation About OA Books. Live session on October 20th
Open Conversation About OA Books. Live session on October 20th
The Open Access Tracking Project (OATP), initiated in 2009, is a crowd-sourced social-tagging project that runs on open-source software. It captures news and comment on open access (OA) to research in every academic field and region of the world.
Initiative Pushes to Make Journal Abstracts Free to Read in One Place
Publishers agree to make journal summaries open and searchable in single repository.
Indonesia Publishes the Most Open-access Journals in the World: What It Means for Local Research
Indonesia Publishes the Most Open-access Journals in the World: What It Means for Local Research
Indonesia has seen progress in open research ecosystem development. More needs to be done.
The Future of Scholarly Communications
As the rush intensifies to find ways to treat and manage COVID-19, one thing is clear: researchers, along with their counterparts in industry and the health services, need unrestricted access to the research literature.
Open-Access Fees Creating 'A Crisis' for African Research
High publishing charges keep continent's scholars out of top journals, academics argue.
Powerful US Research Funder Unveils Strict Open-Access Policy
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute is the second major US funder to mandate that the research it pays for must be free to read on publication.
India Pushes Bold 'one Nation, One Subscription' Journal-access Plan
Researchers will also recommend an open-access policy that promotes research being shared in online repositories.
International Day for Universal Access to Information
28 September marks the first celebration of the International Day for Universal Access to Information since its proclamation by the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly, is of crucial importance.
Helping to Archive and Preserve Open Access Journals
Helping to Archive and Preserve Open Access Journals
A recent study looked at the number of journals that had "vanished" from the internet. The study is a timely reminder of how vulnerable publishing outputs are. There is an urgent need for a group of organisations to come together to find a solution and minimise this risk.
Initiative for Open Abstracts - COKI
COKI Project Co-lead Professor Cameron Neylon outlines why he is supporting a campaign calling for all abstracts to be made open access.
OASPA Onlince Conference 21 - 24 September 2020
Online Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing: Final program available.
Open Access Tage 2020
The Open Access Days are the central annual conference on Open Access and Open Science in the German-speaking world and will take place from 15 to 17 September 2020 as an online conference.
How the Internet Archive is Ensuring Permanent Access to Open Access Journal Articles - Internet Archive Blogs
How the Internet Archive is Ensuring Permanent Access to Open Access Journal Articles - Internet Archive Blogs
Internet Archive has archived and identified 9 million open access journal articles- the next 5 million is getting harder.
Evaluating the Impact of Open Access Policies on Research Institutions
The proportion of research outputs published in open access journals or made available on other freely-accessible platforms has increased over the past two decades, driven largely by funder mandates, institutional policies, grass-roots advocacy, and changing attitudes in the research community.
Diversifying Readership Through Open Access: A Usage Analysis for Open Access Books
Diversifying Readership Through Open Access: A Usage Analysis for Open Access Books
New Springer Nature white paper analyses geographical diversity and usage of OA books.
More Readers in More Places: The Benefits of Open Access for Scholarly Books
More Readers in More Places: The Benefits of Open Access for Scholarly Books
New report published by Springer Nature analyses usage patterns across open access and closed books.The results show higher geographic diversity of usage, higher numbers of downloads and more citations for open access books.
Open Access in the Plague Year
Coronavirus shows why open publishing is vital, but could make it unaffordable, says Martin Eve.
Dozens of Scientific Journals Have Vanished from the Internet, and No One Preserved Them
Dozens of Scientific Journals Have Vanished from the Internet, and No One Preserved Them
Most open access journals lack the technical means and plans to preserve their articles, despite a mandate from some funders that they do so. Specialists worry about a potential loss to scholarship.