Bibliodiversité

Open access is not only about barrier-free access to research by readers, it’s also about barrier-free access by researchers to publishing their research. Barriers to researchers publishing can include high author payment charges (APCs), lack of support to write and publish in one’s native language or about one’s local context,…

« The theme for the International Open Access Week in 2021 is ‘Building Structural Equity’. Equity for everyone is a challenge in publishing in general. However, it is a task that needs to be dealt with for open access publishers as their business models, in general, need to include equal opportunities…

« This report explores how publishers and authors can promote, nurture, and facilitate interaction with openly available books. (…)
The main communities we want to reach with this report are publishers and authors/scholars (or communities of scholars), to explore how they, by experimenting and often just making simple adjustments, can…

« As part of a webinar series on Open Research in Ireland, the National Open Research Forum (NORF) is presenting a webinar focused on Open Access to research publications.
NORF has been developing a National Open Research Landscape Report to summarise progress and challenges…

« Workshop from SIGs on Multilingualism and Advocacy discusses OA journals and the Ibero-American publishers landscape

The workshop on “Publishers and Publishing Stances: a Contribution to Multilingualism and Bibliodiversity” takes place on April 22nd, via Zoom. The event will present the results and recommendations provided by the first multi-institutional study on…

« In a statement, France commented on the first draft recommendation on open science published by UNESCO in October 2020. (…)
France would like the text to place more emphasis on the principle of bibliodiversity which promotes the plurality of actors, economic models, formats and languages of…

« « Les Principes fondamentaux ont beaucoup contribué à l’évolution de notre programme d’octroi de licences », selon Clare Appavoo, directrice générale du RCDR. « Pour notre plan stratégique 2019-2024, la transformation des communications savantes est le principal objectif. Afin d’y parvenir, nous avons étudié les approches fondamentales qui définissent notre façon de travailler…

« La francophonie scientifique est une sorte de chaîne de connaissances construite par des collaborations entre des chercheurs dont la langue maternelle est le français, bien évidemment, mais aussi avec d’autres scientifiques incarnant le multilinguisme scientifique mondial.
Par ailleurs, pour que cette chaîne de connaissances en français fonctionne, il est…

« (…) This contribution examines the distinctive, non-commercial approach to open access (OA) found in Latin America and reflects on how greater diversity in OA infrastructures helps to address inequalities in global knowledge production as well as knowledge access. The authors argue that bibliodiversity, rather than adoption of standardized models of…

« Over the next decade, Open Access (OA) is likely to become the default in scholarly publishing. Yet, as commercial publishers develop new models for capturing revenue (and as policy initiatives like Plan S remain reluctant to challenge their centrality), researchers,…