« L’enquête APC, lancée à l’initiative de Couperin.org avec le soutien de la CPU et des organismes, est le seul exemple à ce jour d’enquête nationale menée sur cette question. S’inscrivant dans la dynamique européenne en faveur d’une plus grande transparence des coûts de l’édition scientifique, elle a pour objectif de…
« (…) This study is meant to shed light on the various determinants ofAPC. Based on data from the OpenAPC Initiative, the Directory of Open Access Journals,the Journal Impact Factor and the Essential Science Indicators of Web of Science, weemploy ANOVA and multivariate regressions. The results show that market power plays…
« Open Access (OA) publishing has created new academic and economic niches in contemporary science. OA journals offer numerous publication outlets with varying editorial philosophies and business models. This article analyzes the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) (N=12,127) to identify characteristics of OA academic journals related to the adoption of…
« Author/Article Processing Charges (APC) have established themselves as the standard form of financing open-access journal articles for the promotion of open-access publications. These are being supported by an increasing number of funding institutions. In addition, the funding of book publications according to a similar scheme by means of book-processing charges…
« For-profit subscription journal publishers recently have extended their publishing range from subscription journals to numerous open access journals, thereby strengthening their presence in the open access journal market. This study estimates the article processing charges for 509 medical open access journals using a sample selection model to examine the determinants…
« Les principaux résultats de cette étude mettent en évidence que le modèle hybride tend à s’imposer de plus en plus chez les éditeurs (pour 83,6% des 923 articles étudiés , les auteurs avaient la possibilité de choisir l’option hybride). Concernant l’option hybride, même si —– lorsqu’elle était proposée aux auteurs …
« The 2019 International Open Access Week will be held October 21-27, 2019. This year’s theme, “Open for Whom? Equity in Open Knowledge,” builds on the groundwork laid during last year’s focus of “Designing Equitable Foundations for Open Knowledge.” (…)
On the programme this year:
– Monday October 21st at 11…
« Open Access is often considered as particularly beneficial to researchers in the Global South. However, research into awareness of and attitudes to Open Access has been largely dominated by voices from the Global North. A survey was conducted of 507 researchers from the developing world and connected to INASP’s AuthorAID…
« Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, announces the release of RightsLink® for Scientific Communications, formerly RightsLink Author, which builds on a market-leading platform to help publishers quickly model and support a wide variety of transformative agreements. (…)
In building RightsLink…
« Earlier this year, we shared some exciting changes that will make it easier and more affordable for UC authors to publish open access with Cambridge University Press. Those changes are now here. Beginning on September 19, 2019, authors will see UC’s discounted open access publishing option…
