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The roles of special issues in scholarly communication in a changing publishing landscape
« This paper aims to enhance the understanding of the role of special issues in the evolving landscape of academic publishing,…02.12.2024
Publier dans une revue en libre accès : fiche à redécouvrir
« Publier dans une revue en libre accès accroît la visibilité de vos résultats. Mais toutes les revues n’offrent pas…28.11.2024
Does Open Access Foster Interdisciplinary Citation? Decomposing Open Access Citation Advantage
« The existence of an open access (OA) citation advantage, that is, whether OA increases citations, has been a topic of…26.11.2024
17 grants to strengthen no-fee OA publishing in Africa
« EIFL, AJOL and WACREN announce the award of 17 grants to strengthen quality and sustainability of no-fee OA journals and…19.11.2024
PALOMERA Deliverable 4.2 – The PALOMERA Recommendations for Open Access Books
« (…) In Deliverable 4.2, PALOMERA has developed an extensive set of actionable and aligned recommendations on Open Access (OA) books…19.11.2024
The MIT Press releases report on the future of open access publishing and policy
« The comprehensive report is the outcome of a National Science Foundation-funded workshop, identifying critical issues in open access publishing and…14.11.2024
Webinar: Creating Community-Driven Pathways to Equitable Open Scholarly Publishing – Leading the way | November 6th 2024 (video)
« The three EU-funded projects CRAFT-OA, DIAMAS & PALOMERA work towards an equitable future for scholarly communication, with the scholarly community…14.11.2024
Two scholarly publishing cultures? Open access drives a divergence in European academic publishing practices
« The current system of scholarly publishing is often criticized for being slow, expensive, and not transparent. The rise of open…08.11.2024
National Cooperation Agreement: Redalyc and Portugal to Boost Quality and Visibility of Diamond Open Access Journals
« Cooperation Agreement between the Scientific Information System Redalyc, the Foundation for Science and Technology, and the University of Minho. We…05.11.2024
“Community over Commercialization” Theme Galvanizes Action for Second Year
« For a second year in a row, “Community over Commercialization” proved to be a powerful galvanizing theme for International Open…05.11.2024
You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone: the changing landscape of UK learned society publishing
« This study draws on a longitudinal dataset of 277 UK learned societies covering the period 2015–2023 to provide evidence-based insights…22.10.2024
Geographical and Disciplinary Coverage of Open Access Journals: OpenAlex, Scopus and WoS
« This study aims to compare the geographical and disciplinary coverage of OA journals in three databases: OpenAlex, Scopus and the…22.10.2024
New OCLC Research report on open access discovery launched
« Our research report on Improving Open Access Discovery for Academic Library Users has just been published. It…15.10.2024
cOAlition S announces the release of an independent study on the impact of Plan S
« (…) Titled “Galvanising the Open Access Community: A Study on the Impact of Plan S”, the report combines quantitative analysis…14.10.2024
Open access publications drive few visits from Google Search results to institutional repositories
« Given the importance of Google Search in generating visits to institutional repositories (IR), a lack of visibility in search engine…08.10.2024
Open Library of Humanities (OLH) annual report 2023-2024 (.pdf)
« The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is pleased to publish its 2023-2024 annual report. This covers the financial year from…08.10.2024
L’édition scientifique d’hier à aujourd’hui : regard éthique
« Quel que soit le domaine de recherche, les scientifiques sont aujourd’hui confrontés aux politiques liées à la science ouverte qui…03.10.2024
European Diamond Capacity Hub: The Future of Diamond OA
« On September 26th 2024, over 60 key stakeholders from the European Open Access community were invited to take a first…03.10.2024
Classifying open access business models
« The proliferation of open access (OA) business models has been rapid, presenting challenges for stakeholders in communicating and working effectively…01.10.2024
Transformative agreements, publication venues and Open Access policies at the University of Milan
« Starting from July 2020 at the University of Milan, one of the largest and most important Italian universities, the first…26.09.2024
OCLC: Improving Open Access Discovery for Academic Library Users
« Improving Open Access Discovery for Academic Library Users examines strategies for making scholarly, peer-reviewed open access (OA) publications more discoverable…04.09.2024
Open Access Australia welcomes the Chief Scientist’s Advice to government on open access models for Australia
« Open Access Australasia welcomes the public release of the Chief Scientist’s Advice to government on open access…03.09.2024
Open access in Ukraine: Characteristics and evolution from 2012 to 2021
« This study investigates the development of open access (OA) to publications produced by authors affiliated with Ukrainian universities and research…29.08.2024
Open Access Colors: An Opinionated Guide
« A central academic norm is the idea that knowledge should be free and accessible to all. Yet much of the…28.08.2024
Open Access in Germany
« Although Germany lacks a uniform Open Access (OA) policy, it has a sophisticated OA culture that involves various initiatives centred…22.08.2024
Knowledge Exchange | Call for Proposals – Innovating Scholarly Communication: Navigating the future of APP’s
« As part of its work on Open Science, Knowledge Exchange is exploring how to raise awareness of alternative publishing platforms…19.08.2024
Draft model legislation for Secondary rights, Copyright, Open access, Institutional policies, and Rights retention (SCOIR)
« We are delighted that the NORF-funded SCOIR project has a Draft model legislation to…13.08.2024
open-access.network publishes handout on information budgets and alternative funding models for Diamond Open Access
« Against the background that universities and research institutions are required to develop integrated information budgets, the BMBF-funded…07.08.2024
The Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, a paradigm-shifting open access reference work, officially launches with first articles
« Today the MIT Press announces the release of the first 50 articles in the Open Encyclopedia…05.08.2024
2nd Global Summit on Diamond Open Access | 8 – 14 December 2024, Cape Town, South Africa
« The purpose of the Global Summit on Diamond Open Access is to bring the diamond open access community and potential…29.07.2024
Big Ten Academic Alliance + Next Generation Library Publishing Announce the Launch of a Pilot Project
« The Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) is excited to announce a partnership with the Next Generation Library Publishing (NGLP) project.25.07.2024
Estimating global article processing charges paid to six publishers for open access between 2019 and 2023
« This study presents estimates of the global expenditure on article processing charges (APCs) paid to six publishers for open access…24.07.2024
Landscape of no-fee open access publishing in Africa
« This study provides an overview of open access (OA) journals in Africa that do not charge fees for either authors…09.07.2024
OECD data, publications and analysis become freely accessible
« The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has transitioned to open-access information model. The OECD began granting greater…08.07.2024
Canadian Open Access Legal (COAL) | Citation Guide now available
« Over the course of two years, law librarians from across Canada worked together to create the COAL-RJAL Guide. The English…03.07.2024
Achieving Global Open Access
« Stephen Pinfield, RoRI Senior Research Fellow, has published a new book on the need for scientific, epistemic and participatory openness…03.07.2024
« Towards Responsible Publishing »: Findings from a global stakeholder consultation
« Research Consulting and the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) were commissioned to…01.07.2024
Annual report on open access in Sweden
« As part of its mandate to coordinate, monitor, and promote collaboration in the work for open access to scholarly publications,…26.06.2024
Swissuniversities et le FNS présentent la stratégie nationale suisse sur l’Open Access actualisée pour un accès libre et immédiat aux publications scientifiques financées par des fonds publics
« La stratégie nationale suisse sur l’Open Access actualisée vise à rendre librement accessible toute publication scientifique financée par des fonds…26.06.2024
Updated Report to the U.S. Congress on Financing Mechanisms for Open Access Publishing of Federally Funded Research
« The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) prepared this report to the Appropriations Committees of the…18.06.2024
DIAMAS project | D5.2 National overviews on sustaining institutional publishing in Europe
« The richness of Diamond Open Access (OA) publishing is characterised by its diversity: from the wide-ranging disciplines it serves in…06.06.2024
Federation of Finnish Learned Societies | New policy component to advance open access to theses
« (…) The new policy has one stated goal: « All theses approved from 2025 onwards will be openly accessible. » This applies…06.06.2024
Effects of Open Access. Literature study on empirical research 2010–2021
« Open access — the free availability of scholarly publications — intuitively offers many benefits. At the same time,…03.06.2024
Open access to scholarly publications is essential, experts agree
« Publishing models designed to shift journals to open access are failing to deliver change or reduce costs. A just and…31.05.2024
Copim’s initial reflections on the REF 2029 open access policy for longform publications
« A collectively authored response by the Copim community, in which we welcome the principle of open access by…21.05.2024
Wikimedia and open research: a primer from UKRN
« The Wikimedia projects, like Wikipedia and Wikidata, are some of the most visited informational websites on the internet, with around…14.05.2024
Special January / April 2024 of Library Resources & Technical Services (LRTS)
« The editors of Library Resources & Technical Services (LRTS) are pleased to announce the publication of…13.05.2024
Open Access Projects in Europe : from a general perspective to monographs and ebooks
« The development of policies in favour of open science and the transformation of publication channels for academic literature and research…06.05.2024
Open Access, Scholarly Communication, and Open Science in Psychology: An Overview for Researchers
« (…) When it comes to scholarly communication, research practices and traditions vary greatly across and within disciplines. This monograph presents…03.05.2024
PALOMERA Knowledge Base
« The Knowledge Base is a collection of documents such as reports, policies, statistics, survey results and interview transcripts relevant to…02.05.2024
DIAMAS Conversation series for libraries: Advancing diamond OA in Europe
« Libraries are vital pillars of the Diamond Open Access (OA) ecosystem, providing infrastructure, services, and expert support to institutional publishers.29.04.2024
Dealing with multilingualism and non-English content in open repositories: Challenges and perspectives
« Several organizations and initiatives have recently called for more support of multilingualism in research to promote epistemic plurality and raise…22.04.2024
[Publications MDPI] Special Issue « Diamond Open Access » is open for submissions
« (…) Against the backdrop of the information introduced above regarding diamond OA, the aim of this Special Issue is to…22.04.2024
Benefits of open access to researchers from lower-income countries: A global analysis of reference patterns in 1980–2020
« The main objective of the open access (OA) movement is to make scientific literature freely available to everyone. This may…16.04.2024
IFLA Open Access Vocabularies
« (…) The purpose of IFLA’s Open Access vocabulary is to collate the most widely used terms and definitions, with reference…04.04.2024
VeriXiv Supports Gates-Funded Researchers to Comply with new Open Access Policy
« F1000 and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have announced plans to launch a new verified preprint platform that will…04.04.2024
DIAMAS Project | D5.1 IPSP Sustainability Research Report
« Understanding the sustainability of institutional publishers and service providers (IPSPs) constitutes a key step in the DIAMAS project. This…03.04.2024
The open access coverage of OpenAlex, Scopus and Web of Science
« Diamond open access (OA) journals offer a publishing model that is free for both authors and readers, but their lack…03.04.2024
[article+code+data]: A virtuous tryptic towards reproducible research
« Too often, the methods described in research papers are not reproducible because the code and/or data are simply not provided.28.03.2024
Advancing Equity and Innovation in Research Publishing: Time for a New Era in the Open Access Movement?
« Today marks a significant milestone as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) announces a new Open…28.03.2024
Knowledge Exchange | Framework for scaling up reproducibility practices in research organisations
« This framework is the main output of a Knowledge Exchange (KE) study titled Approaches to scaling up reproducibility in research…27.03.2024