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Author-paid publication fees corrupt science and should be abandoned
Author-paid publication fees corrupt science and should be abandoned
Author-paid publication fees, often associated with so-called “gold” open access journals, lead to the corruption of science by incentivizing the publication of low-quality research and exacerbate inequalities between institutions that are prestigious and well-funded and those that are less so. The authors recommend a total abandonment of author-paid publication fees for academic research, the publication of which is typically a public good yet serves to enrich publishers while degrading research outputs.
Open Access Days 2025: Goal Achieved - or How Can It (Ever) Be Accomplished?
Open Access Days 2025: Goal Achieved - or How Can It (Ever) Be Accomplished?
What does Open Access promise and what does it cost? How can the crucial importance of open infrastructures be embedded as a collective core task? What could a new concept for financing Diamond Open Access look like? At the Open Access Days 2025, these and other questions were answered in lectures and workshops.
ELife Won't Get an Impact Factor, Says Clarivate
Clarivate has decided to continue indexing some content from eLife in Web of Science.
The Benefits of Diamond Are Not Crystal Clear
There remain misconceptions and blindspots in the debate around diamond open access publishing. A realistic assessment of the sustainability this approach needs an agnostic assessment of its total costs and viability as a business model.
6 Major Academic Publishers Face Antitrust Lawsuit
The defendants, including Elsevier and Wiley, have done "tremendous damage to science and the public interest," the complaint alleged.
Unstable Funding ‘Constrains’ Diamond Open Access in Africa
Journals that do not charge authors or readers struggle with staffing and budgeting, study finds
Is the pay-to-publish model for open access pricing scientists out?
Is the pay-to-publish model for open access pricing scientists out?
Authors are increasingly paying to publish their papers open access. But is it fair or sustainable?
Preparing Researchers for an Era of Freer Information
Academic institutions must take steps to help scholars navigate the process of doing research and responding to open records requests.
Mix of Policies Needed to Support Diamond Open Access
EU-funded Diamas project wants to raise awareness of benefits of scholarly publishing model
Japan's Push to Make All Research Open Access is Taking Shape
Japan will start allocating the 10 billion yen it promised to spend on institutional repositories to make the nation's science free to read.
Gates Open-access Policy Change 'anticipates' Coalition S Direction
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has adopted a policy on open-access publishing that the funder group Coalition S says “anticipates” its own planned change of direction.
Will the Gates Foundation's Preprint-Centric Policy Help Open Access?
Revised policy says grant recipients must share manuscripts as preprints - and removes support for article-processing charges.
Enabling Open Access to Books
CERN and the not-for-profit organization OAPEN Foundation are happy to announce a further expansion of their collaboration to jointly promote open access to books.
The Steep Price of Free Science Access
Governments and funding agencies have promised the public unfettered open access to research. Scientists could foot the bill.
Not-for-profit Scholarly Publishing Might Not Be Cheaper - And That's OK
The rising cost of academic publishing is causing consternation across the research ecosystem and prompting calls in Europe for a transition to not-for-profit publishing models.
Open Access Research Outputs Receive More Diverse Citations
The goal of open access is to allow more people to read and use research outputs. An observed association between highly cited research outputs and open access has been claimed as evidence of increased usage of the research, but this remains controversial.
Paywalls Are Slowing the Quest For a Cancer Cure
Paywalls to scientific journals are hindering access and slowing progress to cures for cancer.
Open Educational Resources: Open Economics Guide Now Covers More Topics
Open Educational Resources: Open Economics Guide Now Covers More Topics
A New Wave of Support Musters in the Push for Open Access Publishing
A new push for a more equitable scientific publishing system is in the making as the proponents of 'diamond' open access - under which neither authors or readers would pay the publishers - weigh up joining forces in a global federation.
New Plan Proposed for Open Access Publishing
Europe’s open access advocates set out a vision for system-level reform to make scientific publishing faster, more open and scholar-led.
Editorial: Proudly Nonprofit
It is vital that scientists engage in discussions about open access because publishing is rapidly changing, and at the moment, there are no certain outcomes in the long run.
Plan S: Stay the Course
Five years after launching, the Plan S open-access initiative must retain its founding principles.
Secondary Publishing Rights Can Improve Public Access to Academic Research
Secondary Publishing Rights Can Improve Public Access to Academic Research
Secondary publishing rights could facilitate immediate open access to publicly funded research and foster global innovation and discovery.
Open Access 'at Any Cost' Cannot Support Scholarly Publishing Communities
Open Access 'at Any Cost' Cannot Support Scholarly Publishing Communities
Kaitlin Thaney argues the current momentum building for “no pays” academic publishing models and establishing the “reasonable costs” of publication, present opportunities to rebalance the inequities, costs, and power dynamics initially bred by the push towards Open Access “at any cost” over the past two decades.
Acceleration of Humanities and Social Sciences Articles in Open Access
Acceleration of Humanities and Social Sciences Articles in Open Access
Six-fold increase in OA articles by HSS researchers at participating UK institutions
EU Council's 'No Pay' Publishing Model Draws Mixed Response
EU ministers have called for a ‘no pay’ academic-publishing model that bears no cost to readers or authors. Some academics have welcomed the proposed plans - but publishing industry representatives warn they are unrealistic.
Spain Adopts National Open Access Strategy
Spain has approved a four-year national strategy for open science, under which all outputs of publicly financed research will made available free upon publication. Under the strategy open access will become the default mode for all research funded directly or indirectly, with public funds.
EU Governments to Rein in Unfair Academic Publishers and Unsustainable Fees
EU Governments to Rein in Unfair Academic Publishers and Unsustainable Fees
Research ministers are nearing the finish line in drafting their position on changes needed in academic publishing, with the latest leak draft revealing the near-final text.
Swedish Presidency to Home in on Research Infrastructures and Open Science Policy
Swedish Presidency to Home in on Research Infrastructures and Open Science Policy
Sweden kicked off a five-month push to deepen EU cooperation on research infrastructures and open data sharing, at an informal meeting of research ministers in Stockholm on Wednesday. The six-month Swedish presidency of the EU isn't introducing new topics to the table but homing in on two that have been discussed for years: research infrastructures and open science publishing.
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