« Since 2013, the Open Access Team has been helping Cambridge researchers, funded by Research Councils UK (RCUK) and the consortium of biomedical funders which make up the Charity Open Access Fund (COAF), to meet their Open Access obligations. Both RCUK (now part of UKRI) and COAF have Open Access policies…
« Lancée en février 2018 auprès des organismes de recherche puis en avril 2018 auprès des universités, l’enquête sur les dépenses en APC 2017 (Article Processing Charges) coordonnée par le consortium Couperin.org, est toujours en cours. Étendue à un périmètre d’établissements plus large que lors de la précédente vague de 2015,…
« The Italian Association for the promotion of Open Science wishes to draw the attention of researchers, students, librarians and administrators of universities and research institutions on an add on of the CARE license with the Elsevier publisher covering the period 2018-2022, the so-called ”…
« The OpenAPC initiative releases data sets on fees paid for open access (OA) journal articles by universities, funders and research institutions under an open database licence. OpenAPC is part of the INTACT project, which is funded by the German Research Foundation and located at Bielefeld University Library. This article provides…
« With the ongoing open-access transformation, article processing charges (APCs) are gaining importance as the dominant business model for scientific open-access journals. This paper analyzes which factors determine the level of an APC by means of multivariate linear regression. (…) »
« The announcement of Plan S by 11 European funding agencies has rocked the scholarly publishing community.
In a nutshell, these funders (and others that may join them) are banding together to impose Open Access (OA) publishing on their researchers. Most contentiously, the funders plan to cap…
« Les bibliothécaires de l’Université de Vienne, en Autriche, ont publié une analyse fort intéressante des différents contrats qu’ils ont négociés avec les éditeurs contenant une dimension « open access » ; plus précisément, ils se sont attachés à décrire les différents workflows à l’oeuvre pour couvrir le cycle complet…
« EIFL has renewed an agreement with Taylor & Francis that guarantees no – or highly reduced – Article Processing Charges (APCs) for authors from EIFL partner countries who publish in a Taylor & Francis open access journal. (…)
The agreement benefits authors from 37 EIFL partner countries:
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus,…
« The importance of post-publication peer review (PPPR) as a type of knowledge exchange has been emphasized by several authorities in research publishing, yet biomedical journals do not always facilitate this type of publication.
Here we report our experience publishing a commentary intended to offer constructive feedback on a previously published…
« ESAC (Efficiency and Standards for Article Charges) est une initiative qui a pour objectif de suivre les évolutions des frais de publication des articles dans les revues scientifiques, de recenser les bonnes pratiques et faire des recommandations sur la gestion des APC et les workflows associés.
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