« The Alliance of Science Organizations in Germany recommends scientific institutions to disclose payments of Open Access publication fees to make the cost structure of the Open Access publication market clearly recognizable. (…) »
« On 28 May 2016, the International Association for Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM) issued a response to the EU Competitiveness Council’s Conclusions on Open Science. Although welcoming the move to Open Science, STM noted its concern at a number of Conclusions which the Council has reached.
…« Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a firm dedicated to creating global licensing and content solutions that make copyright work, announces that ECS (The Electrochemical Society) has chosen to manage Article Processing Charges (APCs) for its Open Access publications using CCC’s
« The promise of Open Access is colored by concerns over financial models and their potential to disrupt established academic publishing. In this installment, we take a closer look at the issues surrounding the APC-supported Gold publishing model.
In the first article in this series,…
« Elsevier is now the world’s largest open access publisher as measured by the number of fully open access journals published. Elsevier has 511 fully open access journals. De Gruyter is second with 435, Hindawi third with 405. These figures are based on data from the publishers’ own websites.…
« OpenAIRE webinar led by Pablo de Castro, from LIBER, about FP7 post-grant Open Access publishing funds pilot with a special focus on the alternative funding mechanism being launched to support Open Access journals and platforms which do not charge any Article Processing Charges to their authors. (…) »
« The Wellcome Trust has warned big publishers than unless they improve their service and lower their costs it could refuse to provide researchers with funds to publish in certain types of their journals.
Elsevier and Wiley have been singled out as regularly failing to put papers…
« INTACT aims at establishing transparent and efficient procedures to manage article processing charges (APC) for open access publications. The project is based on the understanding that the transition from a subscription based market towards open access can only be achieved if higher education and research institutions and their…
» Annoncé depuis quelques mois sur Twitter, RIO pour “Research Ideas and Outcomes” se présente comme un “journal” d’un genre nouveau publié par Pensoft. Fondé en 1992 en Bulgarie , “par des universitaires , pour les universitaires”, initialement concentré sur l’édition de livres, cet éditeur est depuis 2010…
« On débat vigoureusement de la transition vers l’accès libre, depuis la contribution de la bibliothèque Max Planck. J’ai traduit,ici même, cette contribution, non parce que j’y adhérais sans réserve, mais parce qu’elle constituait une prise de position claire dans une discussion qui me passionne.…
