« Open access (OA) publications play an important role for academia, policy-makers, and practitioners. Universities and research institutions set up OA policies and provide authors different types of support for engaging in OA activities. This paper presents a case study on OA publishing in a scholarly community, drawing on qualitative and…
« The last decade has seen two significant phenomena emerge in research communication: the rise of open access (OA) publishing, and evidence of online sharing in the form of altmetrics. There has been limited examination of the effect of OA on online sharing for journal articles, and little for books. This…
Menée par le consortium Couperin au printemps 2019 auprès de l’ensemble de la communauté française des chercheurs, enseignants-chercheurs et doctorants, une vaste enquête sur les pratiques de publication a permis de disposer d’informations encore inédites à cette échelle. Les résultats ont été rendus publics en janvier 2020 et les données…
« Researchers depend on consultation with previous work in their field, most of which is published in scientific journals. The open access movement has affected journals and articles, providing new alternatives for accessing scientific content, and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is the most specialized and multidisciplinary database of…
« Internet Archive has archived and identified 9 million open access journal articles– the next 5 million is getting harder
Open Access journals, such as New Theology Review (ISSN: 0896-4297) and Open Journal of Hematology (ISSN: 2075-907X), made their research articles available for…
» Le marché mondial de l’édition scientifique tend à se concentrer et à se développer sous la forme de monopoles anticoncurrentiels. Les coûts d’acquisitions des ressources électroniques s’envolent et les bibliothèques universitaires ne peuvent plus durablement soutenir ces augmentations exponentielles. Fondé sur le fonctionnement de la recherche et en particulier…
« The origins of this White Paper can be traced to a discussion started in mid-2019 between a number of scholarly publishers and the Publisher Coordinator for Research4Life (a role that is supported financially by the STM Association). These interlocutors voiced concern that while the publishing and research communities in the…
« Research data is/are getting a lot of airtime at the moment. 2020 is the STM Association’s ‘Research Data Year’. The upcoming Peer Review Week focuses on ‘Trust’, which for articles must often involve open data. There’s also been a flurry of action…
« The preservation of the scholarly record has been a point of concern since the beginning of knowledge production. With print publications, the responsibility rested primarily with librarians, but the shift towards digital publishing and, in particular, the introduction of open access (OA) have caused ambiguity and complexity. Consequently, the long-term…
« Dans son étude publiée aujourd’hui, « Mesurer le taux d’accès ouvert des publications scientifiques : le cas de la France », l’Observatoire des sciences et techniques (OST) propose un indicateur d’accès ouvert normalisé pour tenir compte des biais disciplinaires et permettre des comparaisons plus fiables. Cette parution inaugure la nouvelle…
