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The many bottlenecks that the commercial monopoly on research information has imposed are stimulating new strategies.
Fifty percent of the open access journals listed in DOAJ in 2019 are published in Europe, and the United Kingdom is the biggest publisher of OA journals in DOAJ.
Sharing your work by self-archiving: encouragement from the Journal of the Medical Library Association
Letters blast rumored shift to immediate open access for taxpayer-funded studies
An opportunity for journals and publishers to take the bold step of changing their business model?
Robert Harington explores rumors circulating in recent weeks of an impending US Executive Order focusing on public access to federally funded research and open data.
Agreement allows yearlong delay before papers become free to read.
More than 800 PLOS articles have already been published with accompanying peer review history, transforming options for transparency in the assessment process.
The Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS) has selected OAPEN and DOAB for its second funding cycle.
OASPA webinar of 2019: invitation to speakers to consider contemporary debates in open research and open access.
Concerns about the threat from the Global North to Latin America's exemplary tradition of open access publishing are understandable but ultimately misplaced.
A group of leading publishers is announcing a major new service to plug leakage, improve discovery and access, fight piracy, compete with ResearchGate, and position their platform for the OA ecosystem.
CORE Discovery helps users find freely accessible copies of research papers that might be behind a paywall on the publisher's website. It is backed by our huge dataset of millions of full text open…
Researchers from 180 UK universities can now benefit from a national open access deal agreed between Jisc Collections and Frontiers, the second largest fully open access publisher in the UK.
Publishers rarely make publication fee spending for hybrid journals transparent. Elsevier is a remarkable exception, as the publisher provides open and machine-readable data relative to its central invoicing with funding bodies and fee waivers at the article level.
With more agreements including some form of Open Access, consortia and academic institutions need to monitor the number of Open Access publications, the costs and the value of these agreements.
cOAlition S endorse a number of strategies to encourage subscription publishers to transition to Open Access.
An overview of some of the background, considerations, and discussions on some of the topics surrounding publishing open access.
A recent opinion paper by Richard Poynder offers analysis and prognostication with regard to the current state and future prospects of the open access movement.
This report from the Royal Historical Society (RHS) assesses the extent of History journals’ engagement with, and preparedness for, implementation of Plan S-aligned open access (OA) mandates.
The publisher is committed to financial sustainability. How it achieves it is an open question.
This report provides quantitative and descriptive data on the availability and usage of various open access options in different fields and subdisciplines. Its goal was to inform Coalition S funders on the open access options and identify fields where there is a need to increase the share of open access journals/platforms.
Carnegie Mellon University, a longtime proponent of open-access research, is championing an international movement to revolutionize academic publishing.
How Flipping a Journal Became About More Than Just Open Access
Having trouble keeping track of the increasing number of discovery services? Want to learn more about how they work, who are their main users, and how to ensure your repository content is visible in these services? You are invited to participate in a webinar that will feature three of these discovery services.
Managing a New University Press (NUP) is often a one-person operation and, with limits on time and resources, efficiency and effectiveness are key to having a successful production process and providing a high level of author, editor and reader services. This article looks at the challenges faced by open access (OA) university presses throughout the publishing journey and considers ways in which these challenges can be addressed. In particular, the article focuses on six key stages throughout the lifecycle of an open access publication: commissioning; review; production; discoverability; marketing; analytics. Approached from the point of view of the University of Huddersfield Press, this article also draws on discussions and experiences of other NUPs from community-led forums and events. By highlighting the issues faced, and the potential solutions to them, this research recognises the need for a tailored and formalised production workflow within NUPs and also provides guidance how to begin implementing possible solutions.
Geowalling open content is proposed yet again. As a thought experiment, it is explored what Plan S principles would be compromised by this tactic.
University researchers outside the EU who may not otherwise have access to research articles should not be excluded based on the actions of their government.
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Study finds that the number of publications in open access journals rises every year, while the number of publications in questionable journals decreases from 2012 onwards. Both early career and more senior researchers publish in questionable journals.
