« This paper examines issues relating to the perceptions and adoption of open access (OA) and institutional repositories. Using a survey research design, we collected data from academics and other researchers in the humanities, arts and social sciences (HASS) at a university in Australia. We looked at factors influencing choice of…
« (…) While libraries and funding bodies in German-speaking countries have been negotiating Open Access Agreements with large publishers for years through initiatives such as Project DEAL, small and medium-sized publishers are rarely involved. This focus on major publishers tends to promote market concentration at the expense of…
« The close of 2018 brought promising news for supporters of Plan S, a European initiative striving to make all publicly funded research freely available by January 2020. Librarians and funders in China have pledged to make the results of publicly funded…
» Premier titre d’une nouvelle collection de textes numériques, Les Études de l’Enssib, autour de questions vives du monde professionnel, Open Access et bibliothèques, d’Alain Caraco, fait un point très complet sur un enjeu majeur de la recherche et du savoir, la science ouverte. Définition, état des lieux, analyse des…
« The recent development from cOAlition S, giving information on issues of implementation, shows that the release of the Plan S principles really was just the first stage in its longer term development. It has become clear that these principles are now seen by many as being both…
« The publishing of scholarly peer reviewed journals has in the past 20 years moved from print to primarily digital publishing, but the subscription-based revenue model is still dominant. This means that the additional benefits of open access to all scholarly articles still remains a vision, despite some progress. A selection…
« (…) Many of the discussions surrounding Open Access (OA) revolve around how it affects publishing practices across different academic disciplines. It was a long-held view that it would be only a matter of time for all disciplines to fully and relatively homogeneously implement OA. Recent large-scale bibliometric studies show however…
« Open access to digital research output is increasing, but academic library policies can place restrictions on public access to libraries. This paper reports on a preliminary study to investigate the correlation between academic library access policies and institutional positions of openness to knowledge. Method. This primarily qualitative study used document…
« Officials pledge support for European-led ‘Plan S’ to make research papers immediately free to read — but it’s unclear whether China will adopt all the plan’s policies.
In a huge boost to the open-access movement, librarians and funders in China have said that they intend to make the results of…
« On October 22 we posted Eight routes towards Plan S compliance. Meanwhile, cOAlition-S, the group of funders responsible for Plan S, has put out a guidance document detailing implementation of the plan. Based on those details we updated our scheme of routes to achieve compliance.
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