How Switzerland Works Against Fair Access to Science
Switzerland and other rich countries want to maintain privileged access to vaccines and life-saving treatments - putting global public health at risk.
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Should Open Access Lead to Closed Research? The Trends Towards Paying to Perform Research
Should Open Access Lead to Closed Research? The Trends Towards Paying to Perform Research
Open Access (OA) emerged as an important transition in scholarly publishing worldwide during the past two decades. The industry is moving towards article processing charges (APC) based OA as the more profitable business model. Research publishing will be closed to those who cannot make an institution or project money payment. This article discusses whether APC is the best way to promote OA.
Wikipedia's Citations Are Influencing Scholars and Publishers
Rachel Helps, the Wikipedian-in-residence at the BYU libraries discusses the intersection of scholarly journals and Wikipedia.
Reflections on Guest Editing a Frontiers Journal
The authors critically discuss their experience as guest editors for a Frontiers journal. They aim to foster open scholarly debate about Frontiers publishing practices, triggered by Frontiers hindering such debate on their own pages.
Lero Launches Charter to Make Science Research Freely Available
A new open access charter by Lero, the SFI research centre for software, aims to make publicly-funded research in Ireland openly available.
Introducing the FAIR Principles for Research Software
Research software is a fundamental and vital part of research, yet significant challenges to discoverability, productivity, quality, reproducibility, and sustainability exist.
Science's No-fee Public-access Policy Will Take Effect in 2023
The Science family of journals will soon allow authors to publicly share manuscripts more widely without incurring fees.
Why I Think Ending Article-Processing Charges Will Save Open Access
Why I Think Ending Article-Processing Charges Will Save Open Access
The way that the global north pays for publishing hampers public, scholar-led efforts in Latin America.
Open Access Management - a New Domain?
Christian Grubak from ChronosHub and Josh Brown from MoreBrains share their thoughts on the transition to open access and the needs for its formalised management and collaborative community actions
How Will Academia Handle the Zero Embargo?
The OSTP Nelson Memo has caused quite a stir in scholarly communication circles. How will academia handle the zero embargo?
Open Letter: Open Science Should Provide Support, Not Impose Sanctions
Open Letter: Open Science Should Provide Support, Not Impose Sanctions
Beyond ideological boundaries, the Open Science movement should address the question of whether and, if so, under which framework conditions “closeness” can be appropriate in global, political crises. Openness must not be abused to place sanctions in global, political crises by closing open offers.
More Research Will Be Publicly Accessible Sooner
Research manuscripts and the associated scientific data generated for projects that are funded by federal agencies in the United States will need to be made publicly available immediately on publication.
The US Has Ruled All Taxpayer-funded Research Must Be Free to Read. What's the Benefit of Open Access?
The US Has Ruled All Taxpayer-funded Research Must Be Free to Read. What's the Benefit of Open Access?
Lack of free access to research leads to discrimination, both in academia and for us all. The new guidance from the US is a huge step in the right direction.
Washington Gives a Big Boost to Drive for Open-access Scientific Publishing
Washington Gives a Big Boost to Drive for Open-access Scientific Publishing
The movement towards open-access scientific publishing got an historic boost this month, with the White House ordering an end to publishers putting most federally funded research behind paywalls.
White House Pushes Journals to Drop Paywalls on Publicly Funded Research
White House Pushes Journals to Drop Paywalls on Publicly Funded Research
The policy, hailed by researchers as “transformational,” will be fully in place by 2026 and make publicly financed research available immediately at no cost.
Open Access Is Essential for Low-Income Countries
Findings show that countries in sub-Saharan Africa publish and cite open access literature at a higher rate than the rest of the world.
Answering the Challenges to Open Access: The '5 Cs'
How to ensure that policy communities can benefit from the increasing volume of research in order to deliver evidence-informed policy?
US Faculty Members Support Open-Access Publishing in Broad Survey
More respondents under 44 than over 65 are enthusiastic about the publishing model.
SNSF Joins COAlition S - Immediate Open Access to Scientific Articles
SNSF Joins COAlition S - Immediate Open Access to Scientific Articles
A coalition of research funders has been advocating for free, unrestricted access to publications since 2018. The SNSF is now joining them and adapting its Open Access requirements.
Dismantling the Ivory Tower's Knowledge Boundaries
How has the pandemic changed public access to journal articles?
Open Access and the Direction Moving Forward
This post offers recommendations for how funding agencies and research institutions can better lead the change toward open access.
Open Access in 2020: Up by 8 Percentage Points
SNSF-funded research produced a total of 13,938 publications in 2020, 63% of which are freely accessible. Upgrades in monitoring capabilities make the positive trend towards more Open Access (OA) more readily visible.
An Open-access History: the World According to Smits
The Plan S architect, scourge of paywalls, reveals how the policy sausage got made.
To Deal with Global Challenges, Open Access Publishing Must Be the New Normal
To Deal with Global Challenges, Open Access Publishing Must Be the New Normal
Public money contributes to the publication of around 2.5 million papers in scientific journals each year - yet as taxpayers most of us have access to just a fraction of that output.
Does Open Access Cannibalize Print Sales for Monographs?
This post describes a new research project which will look at the impact of open access on print monograph sales, particularly in light of the free access provided early in the COVID-19 pandemic.
Market Consolidation and the Demise of the Independently Publishing Research Society
Market Consolidation and the Demise of the Independently Publishing Research Society
The last few years have been a period of rapid market consolidation in scholarly publishing. Here, a look at the ongoing demise of the independent research society publisher, as more and more continue to sign on with larger publishing partners.
What Can We Learn from One Million Open Access Articles?
Springer Nature has published 1,000,000 open access articles. Steven Inchcoombe discusses what they've learned during this process, and what it means for the future of open access.
Pandemic Disruptor: Canadian Perspectives on How COVID-19 is Changing Open Access in Canada (Part 2)
Pandemic Disruptor: Canadian Perspectives on How COVID-19 is Changing Open Access in Canada (Part 2)
Part 2 of this series looking at open access developments in Canada examines the changing processes and infrastructure needs for open science.
Pandemic Disruptor: Canadian Perspectives on How COVID-19 is Changing Open Access (Part 1)
Pandemic Disruptor: Canadian Perspectives on How COVID-19 is Changing Open Access (Part 1)
A look at open access policies and developments in Canada, especially in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. Part 1 of a 2 part post.
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