Can Highly Selective Journals Survive on APCs?
Are the Article Processing Charge (APC) levels set for high-end OA journals too low to be sustainable?
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Open-access journal eLife to start charging fees
The open-access journal eLife is dropping one of its most distinctive features: free publishing. From 2017, it will charge a fee of $2,500 for all accepted papers.
Cost hurdles to open access publishing
Can we as a community provide citizen scientists worldwide a chance to publish open access peer reviewed articles without significant cost through a competitive publication fee subsidy scheme where each application is reviewed by the national science funding agency?
Research Ministry demands Open Access
Federally funded research will now come with an open access clause – but uncertainties remain
Wikipedia is significantly amplifying the impact of Open Access publications
Today, a scientist's most desired citation may be from a publication not often thought of as prestigious: Wikipedia.
The evolving U.S. policy environment for open research data
This paper presents a brief overview of emerging policies to open up access to research data in the United States.
What do we know?
A look at the literature reveals shortcomings in the way OA and subscription models are being compared and suggests how future studies could build on existing research to provide a more accurate picture
A longitudinal study on hybrid open access
This study estimates the development of hybrid open access (OA), i.e. articles published openly on the web within subscription-access journals.
Open access 'boosts citations by a fifth'
New study looks at what happened when a university made its publications publicly available through an institutional repository
Give The Public What It Pays For
When you pay for something, you expect to receive it. Whether a physical good or a service, there is the rightful expectation that you will receive something in exchange for your money. The same should be true for scientific research.
The Post-Embargo Citation Advantage
Many studies show that open access (OA) articles are downloaded, and presumably read, more often than closed access/subscription-only articles. This study addresses those factors and shows that an open access citation advantage as high as 19% exists, even when articles are embargoed during some or all of their prime citation years.
Why we have set publisher requirements
Robert Kiley, our Head of Digital Services, explains why Wellcome has introduced a set of publisher requirements for open access publications.
66 out of the 100 most cited papers are paywalled
The web was built specifically to share research papers amongst scientists. Despite this being the first goal of the modern web, most research is still published behind a paywall. We have recently highlighted famous math papers that reside behind a pa
UC Pay It Forward Project
UC Davis and CDL Investigation of the Institutional Costs of Gold Open Access
Confirming What We Already Knew About Open Access
A new study from the University of California system confirms much of what we already knew about open access, particularly the increased financial burden it places on productive universities.
A study of institutional spending on open access publication fees in Germany
A study of institutional spending on open access publication fees in Germany
How much German universities and research organisations spent on open access publication fees.
Journal-Flipping
Harvard Library publishes report on converting subscription journals to open access.
Supporting Sci-Hub vs. Explaining Sci-Hub
Association of American Publishers complains about Cal State librarian who studies popularity of pirated scientific papers. Cal State defends its librarian.
Research impact of paywalled versus open access papers
Study showing open access papers have a 50% greater citation advantage than articles behind paywalls.
Introducing Preprints: A Multidisciplinary Open Access Preprint Platform
Preprints is a free (not‐for‐profit) open access service supported by MDPI in Basel, Switzerland.
Making research open and accessible
A figshare case study on Erin McKiernan's Physiological Science research.
LIBER Speaks Up For Open Science, Against Neighbouring Rights for Publishers
LIBER Speaks Up For Open Science, Against Neighbouring Rights for Publishers
The European Commission recently held an open consultation seeking views on the role of publishers in the copyright value chain, including potentially expanding neighbouring rights to publishers. LIBER's Executive Director Susan Reilly recently attended a high-level working lunch with MEP Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg, to present the view of research libraries on this issue.
Sci-Hub: access or convenience? A Utrecht case study (part 1)
Sci-Hub has gained fame and notoriety for enabling free access to over 45 million paywalled articles and book chapters, purportedly collected through use of institutional log-in credentials.
National Guidelines for Open Access in Norway
The working group responsible for creating new guidelines for open access to research results has today delivered their report to the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research.
The Costs of Open and Closed Access
Using the Finnish Research Output as an Example
Opening the Black Box of Scholarly Communication Funding
Obtaining a more joined up picture of financial flows is vital as a means for researchers, institutions and others to understand and shape changes to the sociotechnical systems that underpin scholarly communication.
Should All Academic Research Be Free And What Wikipedia Can Teach Us About Publishing
Should All Academic Research Be Free And What Wikipedia Can Teach Us About Publishing
It is remarkable that the sharing of academic research was the genesis of the modern web, yet today remains one of the last bastions of non-free content on the web.
UK national negotiations with Elsevier: it seems we’re not messing around.
A confidential internal email has come into my hands, from Bristol University, regarding the UK’s national negotiations with Elsevier. I think it’s of general interest.
Open access: All human knowledge is there—so why can’t everybody access it?
Open access: All human knowledge is there—so why can’t everybody access it?
We paid for the research with taxes, and Internet sharing is easy. What's the hold-up?
EU’s Bold Open Science Recommendations Strike a Nerve
In their response to the EU’s Competitiveness Council’s Conclusions of May 27, 2016, the publishers expressed numerous deep concerns.
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