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The Open Library of Humanities has demonstrated a model for high-quality open access publishing, without Article Processing Charges. We asked Chief Executive Officer Martin Eve whether the Library could serve as inspiration for Learned Societies in a post-Plan S world.
A new Research England funded project is set to help universities, researchers, libraries and publishers to make more, and better, use of open access book publishing.
IEEE to provide more high-quality options for authors and researchers.
The purpose of peer review is often portrayed as being a simple ‘objective’ test of the soundness or quality of a research paper. However, it also performs other functions primarily through linking and developing relationships between networks of researchers.
Funders should award competitive grants directly to journals to underwrite the costs of open access, urges Adriano Aguzzi.
Seven researchers discuss the challenges posed by science's embrace of one global language.
Science is often poorly communicated. Researchers can fight back.
How librarians, pirates, and funders are liberating the world's academic research from paywalls.
The article processing charge (APC)-based version of ‘gold’ OA could be a looming threat that may deteriorate the situation even beyond the abysmal state scholarly publishing is already in right now.
To promote effective sharing, we must create an enduring link between the people who generate data and its future uses, urge Heather H. Pierce and colleagues.
Whilst a shift to gold (pay to publish) open access would deliver wider access to research, the lack of price sensitivity amongst academics presents a risk that they will be locked into a new escalating pay to publish system.
The British Journal of Anaesthesia's unusual experiment is designed to broaden replicability efforts beyond just methods and results.
Neil Jacobs, Head of Open Science and research lifecycle at UK not-for-profit, Jisc, has been appointed as interim programme manager for cOAlition S.
The European Council of Doctoral Candidates and Junior Researchers (Eurodoc), the Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA), and the Young Academy of Europe (YAE) jointly welcome the revised implementation guidance for Plan S.
As the transition to a system for sharing knowledge that is open by default accelerates, the question “open for whom?” is essential—both to consider and to act upon.
All disciplines should follow the geosciences and demand best practice for publishing and sharing data.
While statistical significance sends the so-called significant results into the literature, the results on the other side of the threshold often disappear into the “famous file drawer”.
A North American framework for creating transformative change in the scholarly publishing industry based on initial insights from the University of California's 2018-19 negotiations with Elsevier.
Just as patients' access to journals is important,so is the access of doctors in developing countries.
University libraries around the world are seeing precipitous declines in the use of the books on their shelves.
The region already hosts some of the world's leading scientific countries, and some of its smaller states are quickly catching up.
Atomic Age would mark the start of the current geologic time unit, if proposal receives final approval.
On the eve of the European Union's parliamentary elections, a special issue examines the prospects for science across the region.
Frequent rejection and a loss of control are making university staff isolated and ill, new research shows
Nature asked nine leading Europeans to pick their top priority for science at this pivotal point. Love, money, and trust got the most votes.
