« Last week John Wiley & Sons announced its acquisition of open access (OA) publisher Hindawi Limited for $298M. While this announcement sparked several questions and conversations in the industry, it was perceived by most to be quite a logical and somewhat intuitive move. Wiley and…
« The journal brand has proven to be the great intangible asset of the scholarly publisher. It signals trust and authority to authors and readers alike. So even as libraries came to license bundles rather than discrete titles and users came to discover and access content through platforms,…
« For all its faults, 2020 appears to have locked in momentum for the open access movement. But it is time to ask whether providing free access to published research is enough – and whether equitable access to not just reading but also making knowledge should be the global goal. (…) »
« This study explores early career researchers’ (ECRs) appreciation and utilisation of open access (OA) publishing. The evidence reported here results from a questionnaire-based international survey with 1600 participants, which forms the second leg and final year of a four year long, mixed methods, longitudinal study that sought to discover whether…
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« Suite à la vente de la Revue d’intelligence artificielle au printemps 2019 et à la démission du comité de rédaction, des membres de celui-ci ont œuvré à la création d’une nouvelle revue, aux critères de publication conformes à leurs valeurs et à leur éthique scientifique. La perspective d’un modèle de…
« The open access (OA) publication movement aims to present research literature to the public at no cost and with no restrictions. While the democratization of access to scholarly literature is a primary focus of the movement, it remains unclear whether OA has uniformly democratized the corpus of freely available research,…
« A l’occasion de la 13e édition de l’Open Access Week, les bibliothèques universitaires de Nouvelle-Aquitaine (université de Bordeaux, Université de Bordeaux Montaigne, Bordeaux Sciences Agro, Sciences Po Bordeaux, Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, Université de La Rochelle) proposent un jeu sérieux Journey to Open Science (JOS) sur…
« Harvard’s open access (OA) policy, which has become a template for many institutional OA policies, intrinsically undermines the rights of scholars, researchers, authors and university staff, and it adulterates a principal tenet of open access, namely, that authors should control the intellectual property rights to their material. Assessing the implications of Harvard’s open…
« In recent years there has been increasing support for data sharing and transparency within scientific publishing to improve the quality of research and expedite scientific advancements. Indeed the need to make research freely and rapidly available has become particularly apparent during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The…
