« Today is the deadline for those universities in receipt of an RCUK grant to submit their reports on the spend. We have just submitted the Cambridge University 2015-2016 report to the RCUK and have also made it available as a dataset in our repository.
Compliance
…« Wellcome this week has published a set of requirements for open access publications, which will come into force next spring. Jisc as well as, SCONUL, ARMA, UKCoRR and RLUK are supportive of these requirements. (…) »
« Publishers who wish to provide open access publishing services based on APCs for Wellcome grantholders must commit to providing a service which meets our requirements.
(…) We recognise that relationships in the publication process are not straightforward – Wellcome has a grant-funding relationship with a researcher, who then…
« The Federal Trade Commission has charged the publisher of hundreds of purported online academic journals with deceiving academics and researchers about the nature of its publications and hiding publication fees ranging from hundreds to thousands of dollars. (…) »
« Researchers at Stockholm University can now publish articles open access without any fees in more than 1600 Springer journals.
Stockholm University has joined the pilot agreement between The National Library of Sweden and Springer until end of 2018. This agreement states that all publishing fees for…
« La stratégie du Lancet continue en créant encore une nouvelle revue, cette fois-ci dans le domaine de la gastro-entérologie et de l’hépatologie. Le numéro 1 se septembre 2016 (volume 1) vient de paraître (des articles avaient été mis en ligne à partir de juin). (…) »
« The FP7 Post-Grant Open Access Pilot has recently completed its first year of operation since its launch on May 30th 2015. This sixth progress report looks into the results for the period. Most figures shown in the report are however dated June 15th, as this marks…
« (…)The first half of this report looks at article processing charges and subscription payments from UK higher education institutions. It looks at national trends in the number of payments, overall expenditure, and average price. It then takes a closer look at APCs by institution, publisher, type…
« This paper reports analysis of data from higher education institutions in the UK on their experience of the open-access (OA) publishing market working within a policy environment favouring ‘Gold’ OA (OA publishing in journals). It models the ‘total cost of publication’ – comprising costs of journal subscriptions, OA…
