Work Plan for Plan S
Coalition S has identified the following priorities for the next few months.
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The Largest Obstacles to Open Access Are Unfamiliarity and Misunderstanding of Open Access Itself
The Largest Obstacles to Open Access Are Unfamiliarity and Misunderstanding of Open Access Itself
Explaining the current trends, issues and challenges of open access with special focus on Plan S, Plan U, article processing charges (APC), access issues and predatory publishing practices.
Springer Nature Signs Its First 'pure OA' Deal with Sweden's Bibsam
An agreement between publisher Springer Nature and Sweden's Bibsam consortium - made up of institutional libraries and funders - will see the two share the costs of publishing in Springer Nature's Open Access journals.
Imminent Change to Elsevier Access
The University of California has been out of contract with Elsevier since January. Now, the University of California have reason to believe that Elsevier will shut off direct access to new articles later this week or in early July.
Work Plan and Priority Actions for cOAlition S
Coalition S acknowledges that there is a wide range of work to be done to implement Plan S and identified 9 priorities for the next few months.
Regarding a Delta Think Blog Post Analysing the DOAJ
In its series Open Access News & Views, Delta Think recently published an analysis of the DOAJ. DOAJ very much enjoyed the piece and found it to be one of the most well-informed articles written about them. They now comment on a few of the issues raised in the article.
News & Views: Analyzing the DOAJ
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is increasingly being used as a benchmark to determine whether a journal is fully OA, most notably as part of both the original and recently revised Plan S guidelines. This month we take a look at the DOAJ and consider how it compares to other sources for evaluating fully OA status.
Learned Societies, the Key to Realising an Open Access Future?
Plan S will also influence how learned societies, the organisations tasked with representing academics in particular disciplines, operate, as many currently depend on revenues from journal subscriptions to cross-subsidise their activities.
How Do Monographs Fit with the Open Access Agenda?
By 2021, the major UK funders will have implemented policies and mandates on OA monographs, joining a growing international list.
Publishers Fail to Stem Tide of Illicit ResearchGate Uploads
Berlin-based academic network faces court action in US and Germany, and lost more than €12 million (£10.7 million) in 2017, accounts show.
Scientific Research Shouldn't Sit Behind a Paywall
The public pays taxes to support research; they should be able to access the results
The Future of OA Books - White Paper
A global Springer Nature survey of more than 2,500 academic book authors provides in-depth insights into attitudes towards open access.
Do Authors Have Any Power Over Publishers?
Will authors exercise their market power to put downward pressure on article processing charges?
Assessing the Size of the Affordability Problem in Scholarly Publishing
The prices for open access publishing are high and are rising well beyond inflation. What has been missing from the public discussion so far is a quantitative approach to determine the actual costs of efficiently publishing a scholarly article using state-of-the-art technologies, such that informed decisions can be made as to appropriate price levels.
Increasing Open Access Publications Serves Publishers' Commercial Interests
Increasing Open Access Publications Serves Publishers' Commercial Interests
Open access publishing still profits publishers, with little added value for researchers.
New Database Helps Clarify Journal Policies
Researchers can see at a glance the rules they’ll need to follow if they submit to a particular journal.
Cost Models for Running an Online Open Journal
Blog for the Journal of Open Source Software.
Distributed Models for Open Access Publishing: Q&A with Martin Eve
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.
Research England Awards £2.2m to Project to Improve and Increase Open Access Publishing
Research England Awards £2.2m to Project to Improve and Increase Open Access Publishing
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.
Birkbeck to Play Leading Role in Project to Transform Open Access Academic Publishing
Birkbeck to Play Leading Role in Project to Transform Open Access Academic Publishing
Professor Martin Eve will lead Birkbeck's part in the project, which has been made possible through a £2.2 million grant from Research England.
IEEE Announces 14 New Open Access Journals
IEEE to provide more high-quality options for authors and researchers.
'Broken Access' Publishing Corrodes Quality
Funders should award competitive grants directly to journals to underwrite the costs of open access, urges Adriano Aguzzi.
Researchers Reject APC-based OA Publishing As Promoted by Plan S
Lynn Kamerlin, Bas de Bruin and their colleagues have been the most vocal critics of Plan S from the very beginning, braving continuous opposition from certain OA leaders. Now that final Plan S guidelines were released, the chemists publish this Open Letter expressing their worry about a possible dystopian OA future.
Indicators of Open Access for Universities
This paper presents a first attempt to analyse Open Access integration at the institutional level. For this, we combine information from Unpaywall and the Leiden Ranking to offer basic OA indicators for universities. OA indicators are also disaggregated by green, gold and hybrid Open Access. We then explore differences between and within countries and offer a general ranking of universities based on the proportion of their output which is openly accessible.
The State of Open Monographs
Digital Science launched a report on the state of open access monographs. The report addresses the question of how we integrate and value monographs in the increasingly open digital scholarly network.
The War to Free Science
How librarians, pirates, and funders are liberating the world's academic research from paywalls.
The Politics of Open Access in Action
Open access is a movement constituted by conflict and disagreement rather than consensus and harmony. Given just how much disagreement there is about strategies, definitions, goals, etc., it is incredible that open access has successfully transformed the publishing landscape.
New Tool and Dataset Make Permissions Checking Easier, Faster, and Clearer for Libraries.
New Tool and Dataset Make Permissions Checking Easier, Faster, and Clearer for Libraries.
Together with librarians, we’re building a new way to perform permissions checking that is backed by a modern approach and informed by a decade of experience and open, community-editable, machine-readable data.
Building Shareyourpaper.org to Make Self-archiving the Simplest Way to Increase a Paper's Impact.
Building Shareyourpaper.org to Make Self-archiving the Simplest Way to Increase a Paper's Impact.
Introducing shareyourpaper.org, the simplest way for authors to legally self-archive and for your library to fill your repository.
How Gold Open Access May Make Things Worse
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.
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