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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.
Publishers agree to make journal summaries open and searchable in single repository.
Indonesia has seen progress in open research ecosystem development. More needs to be done.
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.
High publishing charges keep continent's scholars out of top journals, academics argue.
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.
Researchers will also recommend an open-access policy that promotes research being shared in online repositories.
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.
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.
COKI Project Co-lead Professor Cameron Neylon outlines why he is supporting a campaign calling for all abstracts to be made open access.
Online Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing: Final program available.
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.
Internet Archive has archived and identified 9 million open access journal articles- the next 5 million is getting harder.
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.
New Springer Nature white paper analyses geographical diversity and usage of OA 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.
Coronavirus shows why open publishing is vital, but could make it unaffordable, says Martin Eve.
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.
“The point of Unsub is to take away much of the uncertainty of doubt around cutting journals,” says Jason Priem, one of the co-founder of the non-profit oranization Our Research.
Recently the creators of Transpose and the Platform for Responsible Editorial Policies convened an online workshop on infrastructures that provide information on scholarly journals. In this blog post they look back at the workshop and discuss next steps.
The publishing contract reads like a classic big deal for journal subscriptions. But then, only a short addendum of 1.5 pages deals with the new Open Access workflow.
A new star has been born on the academic Nordic journal scene: the Journal of Digital Social Research, launched last year. We talked to the editor-in-chief Simon Lindgren from Umeå University.
In an open letter to the European Commission and the European Research Council, the President of CESAER emphasises the full support for open access to scientific publications and the implementation of Plan S in Horizon Europe
This study sheds light on the various determinants of Articel Processing Charges in Open Access. The results strongly support the hypothesis that academia runs the risk not to take advantage of the cost-reducing opportunities inherent to digitization via a hybrid oa-strategy.
Since Germany has been trying for years to reach such a contract with Elsevier, it is worth comparing it with the two transformative contracts with Wiley and Springer Nature in Germany, which were reached and coordinated by Project DEAL.
A price freeze on journal subscriptions will not be enough to avoid UK researchers losing access to key academic content, warn three major sector bodies representing academic library directors and higher education managers.
COPIM, OPERAS-P and open-access.network aim at gaining a better understanding of the national-specific issues surrounding collective funding for OA books from a library perspective.
Under the pressure of a global health crisis, the argument for open access has sunk in. Is this the catalyst that breaks up the bonds of an old publishing model once and for all?
The COVID pandemic may leave us stuck between a growing consensus that open science is the superior way to drive progress and an inability to invest what may be needed to make it happen.
Why is it that while the most vital, and most rigorously tested, information is often locked up behind a paywall, yet falsehoods are readily available?
