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One of the biggest challenges for researchers is time. So when you find an abstract of interest and have just a moment to actually read, you need the full text right now. With our newest release, the ScienceOpen discovery environment incorporates open access data from Impactstory to provide researchers with more ways to read the …
There has been no precedent for this kind of access in the history of scientific enterprise.
Researchers at well-resourced, highly ranked universities are more likely to publish in open-access journals.
OA continues to grow. But when will it be...done? When will everything be published as Open Access?
Organizations launching OA journals have many choices to make. What are their technology options?
New axes of stratification are emerging in academic publishing, adding to the already complex tapestry of inequality in science. Authors working at lower-ranked universities are more likely to publish in closed/paywalled outlets, and less likely to choose outlets that involve some sort of Article Processing Charge (APCs; gold or hybrid OA).
There is a significant discrepancy between the reality of academic publishing and the optimism of politicians and science functionaries who praise Open Access as a panacea for all the ills afflicting science culture.
This declaration was drafted by a group comprising of researchers and professionals working for opening up access to research outputs for public good in India.
At least 28% of the scholarly literature is OA and that this proportion is growing, driven particularly by growth in Gold and Hybrid. Also, OA articles receive 18% more citations than average, an effect driven primarily by Green and Hybrid OA.
For the first time, nearly all scholarly literature is available gratis to anyone with an Internet connection, suggesting the toll access business model may become unsustainable.
Society clearly benefits from innovation and creativity, and therefore has a vested interest in ensuring that such behaviors are rewarded while not stifling future innovation.
The FinELib consortium and Elsevier today signed an agreement making Elsevier’s globally published research articles available to Finnish academic institutions, while providing Finnish researches with incentives to publish open access if they so choose.
The Center for Open Science (COS) has launched two new preprint services to provide free, open access, open source archives for the Arab and French research communities.
London institution thought to be the first in UK to launch open-access publishing platform, as academics move away from traditional scholarly journals.
UCL Press is launching a new open access megajournal that will provide academics and students with ground-breaking research free of charge in a move that challenges traditional commercial publishing models.
Style guide presents central principles, issues, and innovations regarding open access citations.
Using newly available open access status data, year-on-year open access levels are explored across research fields, languages, countries, institutions, funders and topics, and the resulting patterns are related to disciplinary, national and institutional contexts.
Neil Jacobs, head of scholarly communications support at Jisc, explains the significance of the recent Horizon 2020 open publication announcement.
"Truly open scholarship also requires that bibliographic references be freely available for analysis and reuse", says David Shotton, co-director of OpenCitations.
German universities demand open access and fair pricing from academic publishing house Elsevier.
News and comment from the worldwide movement for open access to research.
Elsevier is allowing researchers in Germany to access its paywalled journals without a contract until a national agreement is hammered out.
Based on Crossref Data (2014-2017) - 42,339 Journals - 12 Million Articles - 36 Million Citations.
A 30 page paper panning the Commission’s copyright plans on press publishers written by JRC never saw the light of the day.
Incentives for “Open”, perception as additional work and lack of training, and diversity and inclusivity.
Slides explaining the publishing process and how Open Access fits in the traditional journal-subscription based model.
Without action, the UK might end up in the situation of funding both subscriptions and article-processing charges on an ongoing basis.
A broad TDM Exception is important for everyone (not just researchers), would boost Europe’s economy and doesn’t mean that publishers would lose money.
All publications produced in SNSF-funded projects freely available in digital format as of 2020.
Discussing the negative impacts of inaccessible outcomes, unavailable data, and doctored results in advancing science in general, and that impact in very concrete personal terms.
