« The rise in open access journals was followed by the proliferation of open access megajournals, which were once expected to become a major publication platform of the future. We analyzed the bibliometric parameters of 11 megajournals sensu stricto according to the definition by Björk and compared them with three control…
« A global Springer Nature survey of more than 2,500 academic book authors provides in-depth insights into attitudes towards open access.
The survey looks at researchers’ motivations for publishing a book, and analyses the parameters and key drivers which influence academics to publish OA or not. The white paper also…
« Les bénéficiaires de subsides du FNS sont tenus de donner libre accès à leurs résultats et pourtant, seulement 50% des publications sont en Open Access jusqu’à présent. Le FNS vérifiera donc désormais de façon systématique le respect de cette condition.
Le FNS considère que les résultats de recherche financés…
« An important justification for transitioning from a subscription based journal publishing system to an open access journal publishing system, has been that whereas printing and distributing physical copies of journals is an expensive process, the cost of digital publication and dissemination are marginal. In this post Shaun Khoo argues that…
« More than 250 authors at Utah State University published an Open Access (OA) article in 2016. Analysis of survey results and publication data from Scopus suggests that the following factors led authors to choose OA venues: ability to pay publishing charges, disciplinary colleagues’ positive attitudes toward OA, and personal feelings…
« L’édition scientifique connait une révolution depuis plusieurs années avec le développement de l’accès ouvert, ou open access, qui permet à tous de consulter gratuitement des articles ou des livres académiques. Mais dans cet environnement de liberté, lecteurs et bibliothécaires doivent pouvoir être orientés vers des ouvrages de qualité, certifiés par…
« Institutional repositories are archives for collecting and disseminating digital copies of the intellectual output of institutions. Linked open data is to expose and connect pieces of data, information, and knowledge on the Semantic Web. This paper studies how BIBFRAME 2.0 can be used to describe objects in institutional repositories, with…
« (…) Le modèle éditorial dominant issu des majors de l’édition scientifique a paradoxalement conduit les bibliothèques à se soumettre à des schémas contraires à ce que l’on attendrait d’elles : diffusion restreinte des savoirs, acquisition de bouquets imposés de ressources numériques et déséquilibre de la répartition des dépenses au détriment de…
« The progress of Open Access (OA) is often measured by the proportion of journals that have transitioned to OA publication models. However, a number of journals have made the opposite choice and moved from open to closed access models. In this post Lisa Matthias, Najko Jahn and Mikael Laakso report…
« The International Society for Medical Publication Professionals (ISMPP)’s first white paper, ‘A multistakeholder discussion on open access and medical publishing’, was announced at the 15th Annual Meeting of ISMPP. As described in a recent article for the
