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A clear citation advantage for open publishing with open available documents receiving twice as many citations.
Leading Swedish research funder joins nonprofit coalition committing about £2.72 mio. to eLife for a 4-year period beginning in 2018.
Scholars are planning an alternative site on which to network and share work.
In our institutions of higher education and our research labs, scholars first produce, then buy back, their own content. With the costs rising and access restricted, something's got to give.
How does open access affect the usage of scholarly books? A white paper by Springer Nature.
A survey on open access books, revealed that of the 99 authors, 55.5% self-archived their chapters.
Considerations of open access models that can work across disciplines. The case of ELife, PLoS, and BioOne.
Academic publisher Springer Nature says it has blocked access to articles within China to comply with demands from the Chinese government.
Could the real open access please stand up? If more research was published according to true open access principles, we'd see better application of evidence for everyone's benefit.
On the slow but steady rise of Open Access.
Michele Marchetto of Wikimedia Italia shares the story of how they helped authors to make their open access articles more widely available.
Could the real open access please stand up? If more research was published according to true open access principles, we'd see better application of evidence for everyone's benefit.
Open-access publishing held to the same standards as paid subscription journals.
Ireland's Health Research Board is the first public funder to launch their own publication platform.
Why we need a public data infrastructure of publishing costs.
A community of scholar-led, not-for-profit presses, journals and other open access projects in the humanities and social sciences.
This Perspective article argues that universities should take action to support open scholarship that benefits society and to return to their core missions of knowledge dissemination, community engagement, and public good.
What can be done to preserve the monograph.
Taxpayers sometimes have to pay three times for any scientific article.
Increased provision of information in accessible repositories appears to be a cost-effective way to advance science. Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial.
An article considering both the efficacy and ethics of piracy, placing ‘guerrilla open access’ within a longer history of piracy and access to knowledge.
German libraries and universities want all German-authored papers to be freely available worldwide.
Cost-neutral extension of the existing Springer contracts by one year.
This first-of-a-kind report from Knowledge Exchange maps the landscape for Open Access books in the Knowledge Exchange countries; Finland, Netherlands, UK, France, Denmark and Germany, together with Norway and Austria.
Biologists are posting unreviewed papers in record numbers. Here's a survival guide.
Many of the important papers penned by the chemistry laureates are not freely accessible.
Take-down notices “imminent” as lawsuit is filed alleging widespread copyright infringement.
A call on research organizations and their libraries to secure and earmark a share of their acquisition budgets to support the development of scientific publishing activities.
The American Chemical Society seeks a broad order that includes millions of dollars in damages and demands action from Internet service providers and search engines.
Academic publishers in general and Elsevier in particular have a reputation for their ruthless profiteering, using professional negotiators pitting hapless librarians against their own faculty.
