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The dominant model of Article Processing Charges, whilst lowering financial barriers for readers, has merely erected a new paywall at the other end of the pipeline, blocking access to publication for less-privileged authors.

The agreement will allow authors at eligible German institutes to publish papers for fee of about £8500 each

The author is engaged in a project that seeks to convert publishers to business models that will allow them to publish their books openly, without using unaffordable book processing charges (which authors hate and which will not scale). As of today, the first press to take the leap: the Central European University Press can be announced. The model is called “Opening the Future”.

This year's open access week will be talking to a number of researchers.

The arrangement will allow some researchers in Germany to publish openly - but critics say it comes with a high price.

Open Access (OA) is central to the UK Government’s ambitions for research and innovation. Public funders are reviewing their OA policies and working collaboratively to understand how to take forward the Government’s ambitions.

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.

Researchers will also recommend an open-access policy that promotes research being shared in online repositories.

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.

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.

COKI Project Co-lead Professor Cameron Neylon outlines why he is supporting a campaign calling for all abstracts to be made open access.

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.

Online Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing: Final program available.

Internet Archive has archived and identified 9 million open access journal articles- the next 5 million is getting harder.

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.

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 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.

New Springer Nature white paper analyses geographical diversity and usage of OA 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

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.