14.04.2021
Mot-clé : Open Access
12.04.2021
Publishers and Publishing Stances: a Contribution to Multilingualism and Biliodiversity
« Workshop from SIGs on Multilingualism and Advocacy discusses OA journals and the Ibero-American publishers landscape The workshop on “Publishers and…12.04.2021
A guide to Plan S: the open-access initiative shaking up science publishing
« In 2018, an influential group of research funders announced a bold pledge: the scientists they fund should publish their peer-reviewed…12.04.2021
Some considerations about reviewing and open-access in scientific publishing
« Scientific research changed profoundly over the last 30 years, in all its aspects. Scientific publishing has changed as well, mainly…09.04.2021
Attracting new users or business as usual? A case study of converting academic subscription-based journals to open access
« This paper studies a selection of 11 Norwegian journals in the humanities and social sciences and their conversion from subscription…07.04.2021
OPEN ACCESS IN GREECE by HEAL-Link
« A report with all publications, which were financially supported by HEAL-Link, the consortium of Greek academic libraries.02.04.2021
Exploring researcher preference for the version of record
« To what extent does article version matter to researchers? Does the version of record (VOR) offer significantly more value to…31.03.2021
Reflections on the OA Diamond Journals Study
« Earlier this month, cOAlition S and Science Europe published an in-depth study of diamond open access journals,…30.03.2021
What happens when a journal converts to Open Access? A bibliometric analysis
« In recent years, increased stakeholder pressure to transition research to Open Access has led to many journals converting, or ‘flipping’,…26.03.2021
Consortium Érudit : Notes de recherche
« L’équipe du volet recherche d’Érudit a réalisé quatre notes de recherche sur des enjeux qui touchent le milieu de la…26.03.2021
Preprints in Chemistry: An Exploratory Analysis of Differences with Journal Articles
« The exploratory analysis of the differences between preprints and the corresponding peer reviewed journal articles for ten studies first published…24.03.2021
Open access publishing should be the default
« (…) This month, 157 UK universities started negotiations with Elsevier, the world’s largest academic publisher. In these…22.03.2021
Les monographies en libre accès
« À mesure que le mouvement international de libre accès prend de l’ampleur, la question de savoir comment passer à libre…18.03.2021
Conférence #WACREN2021, 17 March: Open Science and Open Access [vidéo]
« Updates on UNESCO’s Global Open Science Partnership with international examples of national frameworks and lightning talks from African countries implementing…16.03.2021
Improving access to scientific research: Open Pharma resource available
« Open access publishing has been gaining momentum over recent years. A survey by the…15.03.2021
Publishing at any cost: a cross-sectional study of the amount that medical researchers spend on open access publishing each year
« Objective To estimate the financial costs paid by individual medical researchers from meeting the article processing charges (APCs) levied…11.03.2021
Digital Commons (Elsevier) Diamond Open Access Journals Conference, 13-15 April 2021
« (…) In recent years, the Diamond OA model has opened space for emerging research, innovative formats, and diverse voices. Spurred…09.03.2021
For a Change: Let’s Make a Change! OPERAS Survey on Collaborative Models for Open Access Books
« (…) We are launching a survey of publishing organisations throughout Europe to identify and better understand existing and potential business…09.03.2021
Diamond unearthed: shining light on community-driven Open Access publishing – cOAlition S and Science Europe
« cOAlition S and Science Europe are pleased to announce the publication of an in-depth report and…08.03.2021
Epi-Revel, la nouvelle plateforme d’édition accueille la revue scientifique Cycnos
« Depuis le 1er février 2021, la revue internationale d’études anglophones Cycnos soutenue par le Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Récits, Cultures et Sociétés…04.03.2021
Open Access to academic books creates larger, more diverse and more equitable readerships
« Drawing on findings from one of the largest surveys of its kind to date, Mithu Lucraft demonstrates how Open Access…04.03.2021
Princeton University Library (PUL) launches open access publishing program for scholarly publications
« In support of greater global access to the work of Princeton researchers, Princeton University Library (PUL) has launched the PUL…04.03.2021
A Plan S for books: Voices from the Community
« What should a Plan S for books look like? This is a question we’ve been thinking about at…openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org, Lucy Barnes, 25 février 2021
03.03.2021
CSIRO moves towards Open Access for national benefit
« Research aimed at solving Australia’s greatest challenges will be made increasingly accessible as part of a shift towards ‘Open Access’…26.02.2021
Webinar: International and national copyright policy action for OA – Monday, 8 March 2021, 14-16 CET
(…) Target audience Open Science policymakers, Research Funding Organizations and Research Performing Organizations managers, librarians, repository managers and academic…25.02.2021
A joint project of Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) and Knowledge Unlatched receives funding from BMBF
« (…) The project develops a sustainable model of publisher-independent, quality-assured OA journals in small, transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary subjects. In this…24.02.2021
Academic Libraries and Open Access Books in Europe. A Landscape Study
« The last fifteen years have witnessed the emergence of a new role for academic libraries. Besides fulfilling their fundamental task…22.02.2021
Comments made by France on the First draft of the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science
« In a statement, France commented on the first draft recommendation on open science published by UNESCO in…22.02.2021
Plan S Rights Retention Strategy, Copyright and the Academic Community – Part One
« As a society publisher, I have been struggling to understand how best to serve our mathematical community on issues of…scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org, Robert Harington, 18 février 2021
22.02.2021
Plan S Rights Retention Strategy, Copyright and the Academic Community – Part Two
« In Part two of this interview post, I continue to grill an eloquent group of stakeholders with a wide range…scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org, Robert Harington, 19 février 2021
18.02.2021
The costs of non-access: why we should talk about the impacts of not investing in libraries
« A lot of advocacy for libraries focuses on showing the return that our institutions provide on investment. Through this, we…17.02.2021
Publier dans une revue en libre accès (mise à jour)
« Publier dans une revue en libre accès accroît la visibilité de vos résultats. Mais toutes les revues n’offrent pas les…16.02.2021
The Big Ten Academic Alliance Announces Collective Action Agreement with DOAJ
« The Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)…11.02.2021
Transparency to hybrid open access through publisher-provided metadata: An article-level study of Elsevier
« With the growth of open access (OA), the financial flows in scholarly journal publishing have become increasingly complex, but comprehensive…arxiv.org, Najko Jahn, Lisa Matthias, Mikael Laakso, 9 février 2021, arXiv:2102.04789
08.02.2021
UvA (University of Amsterdam) open access policy and Diamond Open Access Fund
« The Executive Board recently adopted the UvA Open Science programme 2020 – 2024. The programme includes an overview of new…05.02.2021
CORE & PubMed collaborate for further full text dissemination
« CORE provides access to freely available full text papers which were previously unavailable in PubMed to enhance the experience of…05.02.2021
cOAlition S response to the STM statement: the Rights Retention Strategy restores long-standing academic freedoms
« The statement published earlier today (3rd February) by the STM Association and signed by a number of…coalition-s.org, Robert Kiley, Johan Rooryck, 3 février 2021
05.02.2021
Signatories publish statement on Rights Retention Strategy
« (…) As of January 2021, a group of private funding agencies and European governmental funding agencies called “cOAlition S” has…02.02.2021
Publishing Philosophy Open Access Without a Particle Collider
« Open Access often appears to be a monolithic concept, covering all fields of research and publication. However, in practice its…blogs.lse.ac.uk, Bryan W. Roberts, David Teira, 29 janvier 2021
01.02.2021
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Sets a New Course for Open Access
« Funding of publication costs and targeted support for research-friendly publication infrastructures / Topics and background information on the DFG website…01.02.2021
Welcome to openjournals.nl
« Openjournals provides a professional OpenAccess publishing platform for scholarly, peer-reviewed journals. This platform is made possible by a collaboration between…29.01.2021
SPARC Europe publishes new strategy 2021-2024
« SPARC Europe’s new strategy continues to strive to make Open research and education the default for the Higher Education community,…29.01.2021
Preservation of open access articles – is long-term storage guaranteed?
« You have followed the mandate from your funding body and published your prized research in an open access (OA) journal,…26.01.2021
DFG – Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft – New website on open access
« The DFG supports open access. Important with respect to DFG funding is the stated benefit of this publishing method in…20.01.2021
Science ouverte et accès ouvert, petit manuel pour chercheurs et chercheuses (épisode 2)
« (…) Choix en matière d’open access et open data Lorsqu’un chercheur ou une chercheuse s’engage dans la science ouverte,…18.01.2021
Science ouverte et accès ouvert, petit manuel pour chercheurs et chercheuses (épisode 1)
« Qu’il s’agisse de publier un article, de répondre à un appel à projet ou d’archiver des données, les chercheurs et…14.01.2021
UCT Libraries’ new platform supports publishing of African-centric research
« The University of Cape Town (UCT) Libraries has developed a new continental platform for open access publishing…12.01.2021
Wiley Acquires Hindawi: An Interview with Judy Verses and Liz Ferguson
« Last week John Wiley & Sons announced its acquisition of open access (OA) publisher Hindawi Limited for $298M. While…12.01.2021
Eleanor Masterman. « ‘Communists of Knowledge’? A case for the implementation of ‘radical open access’ in the humanities and social sciences »[thesis]
« Open access (OA) has widely been touted as a ‘radical’ alternative to the traditional scholarly publishing system, which has faced…07.01.2021
Can Publishers Maintain Control of the Scholarly Record?
« The journal brand has proven to be the great intangible asset of the scholarly publisher. It signals…scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org, Danielle Cooper, Oya Y. Rieger, Roger C. Schonfeld, 6 janvier 2021
06.01.2021
Open Bioeconomy—A Bibliometric Study on the Accessibility of Articles in the Field of Bioeconomy
« Open access (OA) to scientific information is one of the major challenges and objectives of actual public research policy. The…05.01.2021
Wiley Announces Acquisition of Hindawi
« John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (NYSE:JWA) (NYSE:JWB) today announced the acquisition of Hindawi Limited, an innovator in open access (OA)…05.01.2021
2020 locked in shift to open access publishing, but Australia is lagging
« For all its faults, 2020 appears to have locked in momentum for the open access movement. But it is time…05.01.2021
zbMATH Open
« Starting 1st January 2021, zbMATH is becoming an open access database. The mathematical community is invited to participate in its…22.12.2020
Muthu Madhan: ‘One nation one subscription’ is an elusive goal
« (…) Muthu Madhan is a long-time crusader for open access (OA) to scholarly literature in India. He has been…15.12.2020
The 2019/20 Barometer for the Academic World: New Insights for Open Science?
« What is the state of science in Germany these days? The Barometer for the Academic World has been dedicated to…15.12.2020
Physics societies unite in support of open access
« Major physics societies, which support physical science researchers with the publication of more than 75,000 peer-reviewed journal articles each year,…14.12.2020
Scopus filters for Open Access type and 5.5 million more OA articles (17 million in total!)
« Key points: As of 9th December, Scopus has new Open Access filters, providing greater clarity on the type of open…10.12.2020
Adoption of the Open Access Business Model in Scientific Journal Publishing: A Cross-disciplinary Study
« Scientific journal publishers have rapidly converted during the past 25 years to predominantly electronic dissemination, but the reader-pays business model…crl.acrl.org, Bo-Christer Björk, Timo Korkeamäki, 2020, https://doi.org/10.5860/crl.81.7.1080
09.12.2020
Jisc launches next-generation, Plan S-compliant repository
« Jisc is launching a new multi-content repository for storing research data and articles that will make…07.12.2020
Transformative agreements: Do they pave the way to open access?
« Transformative agreements, also known as ‘offsetting’, ‘read and publish’, or ‘publish and read’ agreements, have shifted the focus of scholarly…03.12.2020
UK collaborates with new body to accelerate global open access
« UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), Wellcome and Jisc are among the first organisations…03.12.2020