« Elle avait été annoncée, et elle arrive vite : le revue « Gates Open Research » utilise le modèle de F1000Research, comme la revue du Welcome Trust qui s’appelle Wellcome Open Research. Les institutions de recherche lancent des plateformes et voudraient prendre le leadership…
« The OpenAIRE EC FP7 Post-Grant Open Access Pilot is pleased to announce a new call for bids, this time to support open access publishing initiatives (see definition below) that intend to experiment with sustainable funding models alternative to author facing article/book processing charges (APC/BPC, hereafter referred to as ‘author fees’).…
« Libraries frequently support their open access (OA) fund using money from their collections budget. Interest in assessment of OA funds is arising. Cost per use is a common method to assess library collections expenditures. OA article processing charges (APCs) are a one-time cost for global, perpetual use. Article level metrics…
« (…) Après avoir présenté l’état de la réflexion européenne dans le domaine du suivi des dépenses d’APC, l’étude s’attache à présenter trois méthodes de suivi qui peuvent être mises en place au sein d’établissements d’enseignement supérieur et de recherche : utilisation d’une base de données bibliographique ; sollicitation des éditeurs…
« LIBER, Europe’s leading association of research libraries, presents Five Principles for libraries to use when conducting Open Access negotiations with publishers.
The principles are based on the experiences of LIBER libraries in the past two years, and aim to guide libraries and consortia as they shift from a reader-pays model…
« Each year since 2013, Jisc Collections has asked UK institutions to submit data on their article processing charges (APCs). Last year, we published an analysis of APCs and subscription costs in the UK for the years 2013-2015.
Since then,
RCUK committed to extending their block grant…« AIAA achieves best-in-class author experience and efficient, compliant fee transaction process through new partnership with CCC
Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a global leader in content management, copyright licensing, discovery, and delivery solutions, announces that the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) now…
« Many academic publishers are adopting article processing charges (APCs) to fund the publication of open access (OA) research in their journals. Yet, as some of the burden of paying for article production shifts from library subscription fees to author-side fees, insight into how it’s affecting authors is somewhat limited. How…
« Since its launch in 2014, our newest journal, Royal Society Open Science, has operated a full waiver of all article processing charges (APCs) allowing all authors to publish their work with us completely free of charge. This is a fairly common way to get new open access…
« (…) To share a better understanding of author’s perspectives on APC payments, Knowledge Exchange has carried out a study among authors of six research organisations in the UK, France, Germany, Finland, Denmark and the Netherlands.
The study has produced two reports; An abridged report ‘Paying for Open Access the author’s perspective’ and…
