« The traditional mechanisms for communicating research results have recently undergone profound changes as a result of the open access movement (Abadal, Ollé, & Redondo, 2018), which makes scientific information freely accessible and reusable. The movement began with research articles, but has recently…
« Research funders around the world have implemented open access policies that require funded research to be made open access, usually by self-archiving, within 12 months of publication. Elsevier is unique among major science publishers because it produces several journals with non-compliant self-archiving embargoes of more than 12 months. We used…
« The EUA Council adopted a statement on 26 October 2018 expressing its concern about the lack of transparency and competition in the scholarly publishing business sector in Europe. The statement, addressed to the European Commission, asks for an investigation to clarify if competition rules guarantee fair competition market conditions.
EUA…
« Two of the world’s largest biomedical research funders have backed a plan to make all papers resulting from work they fund open access on publication by 2020. (…) »
« Frontiers is the latest open access publisher to distribute content automatically to institutional repositories via Jisc’s Publications Router service. This enables institutions to capture, store, curate and showcase articles published in Frontiers journals that report research by their academics.
Frontiers publishes 61 journals covering…
« Dans un effort conjoint pour favoriser le développement des publications académiques en accès ouvert, et en résonance avec la semaine internationale de l’accès ouvert (Open Access Week) du 22 au 28 octobre 2018, l’Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 et OpenEdition officialisent leur partenariat.
Suite à la signature d’une convention le…
« Last month, European research funders collectively called for research publications to be made free, fully and immediately; so far, 14 funders have signed up. Before that, at least 50 funders and 700 research institutions worldwide had already mandated some form of open…
« La révolution numérique a considérablement modifié l’environnement du chercheur. Avec le développement du libre accès et des archives ouvertes, la surabondance d’informations, la diversité des supports et les mutations concomitantes des modèles juridiques et économiques appliqués à la publication scientifique, le chercheur est confronté à un environnement foisonnant en perpétuelle…
« Read & Publish models have been in the spotlight for some time in Europe, and in July they arrived in the US with MIT signing the first such deal with us, the Royal Society of Chemistry. This is significant as it signals the model has appeal to research intensive universities…
« The European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP), like many other research funders, requires its grantees to make papers available via open access (OA). This article investigates the effect of publishing in OA journals and international collaboration within and between European and sub-Saharan African countries on citation impact and…
