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A new momentum is emerging in the dissemination of scientific knowledge worldwide.  The GLOALL carries a vision to promote the development of multilingual scholarly communication standards, products and services.

A pilot program gives authors another way to publish OA while enjoying the benefits of an established journal.

As Open access is often perceived as the end goal of scholarly publishing, much research has focused on flipping subscription journals to an OA model. Focusing on what can happen after the presumed finish line, this study identifies journals that have converted from OA to a subscription model, and places these “reverse flips” within the greater context of scholarly publishing.

Survey finds that European institutions have open access policies in place - but far fewer have specific targets systems to check their progress.

The New England Journal of Medicine just published an editorial saying open access publishing isn't necessary, because they already make most of their content free. What are they so worried about?

Martin Paul Eve, Co-director and Co-founder the Open Library of Humanities was interviewed as part of the Insights into the Economy of Open Scholarship collection of interviews.

American Chemical Society: Chemistry for Life.

To democratise scholarly publishing, individual academics need to take action.

Implementing the mandate for open access monographs will be complex but that is the price of 'being the leader', says Cameron Neylon.

The High Court of Paris has ordered several of the largest French ISPs to block access to the pirate libraries LibGen and Sci-Hub. The decision is a setback for the sites that have come under increasing pressure.

The divergent strategies of scholarly publishers to forge licensing agreements with libraries are yielding different results.

The academic publication lifecycle has undergone radical changes over the past several years. These changes have a significant impact on how scholarship will be written, published, promoted, and read in the future.

This week, SPARC Europe, in consultation with ALLEA, The European Foundation Centre (EFC) and Science Europe, sent surveys to almost 200 funding bodies throughout Europe. 

Concerns about some key aspects of Plan S and about their workability in practice, particularly within the landscape of the Humanities, are presented, along with a call for closer consideration of the differential impacts and possible unintended consequences of the ambitious plans laid out in the Guidance document.

'My question for those who say it's too tight a time scale,' says Plan S task force co-chair David Sweeney, 'is how long do you want?'

The MIT community is invited to comment on ways to increase sharing of research, data, software, and more.

How can academic libraries "vote with their dollars"?

An Open Letter to Elsevier and the Editorial Boards of Elsevier Journal

As the publishing arm of the University of California system, UC Press supports the UC libraries in their cancellation of the Elsevier "big deal" package. As small to medium-sized publishers of largely humanities and social sciences (HSS) journals, university presses (including UC Press) have had to compete for diminishing library resources to support our publishing programs.

Online survey BOS

Robert Harington interviews Daniel Hook, CEO of Digital Science, discussing openness and findings from his recent report entitled The Ascent of Open Access.

The offer from Elsevier is a long way from fulfilling the Norwegian requirements for open access to research articles. There is also no movement in transitioning the agreement from paying to read to paying for open publishing. Norwegian research institutions will therefore not renew the agreement with Elsevier for 2019. 

both in Europe and Latin America principles have been postulated to achieve Open Access. Europe calls it Plan S while in Latin America it…

Plan S raises challenging questions for the Global South. Even if Plan S fails to achieve its objectives the growing determination in Europe to trigger a “global flip” to open access suggests developing countries will have to develop an alternative strategy.

The UK has benefitted from funder incentives that make Open Access appealing for authors, while US funders have taken a less interventionist approach to Open Access. This in turn has led to increased international collaboration for UK researchers.

The giants of the scientific publishing industry have made huge profits for decades. Now they are under threat.

Leading open-access advocate will take eLife forward in its mission to transform publishing in the life and biomedical sciences.

Reflections on the recent consultation period for Plan S, a funder led proposal for achieving universal open access to research papers.

University of California and Dutch publisher fail to strike deal that would allow researchers to publish under open-access terms.