08/04/2022
« A lot has happened in the scholarly publishing landscape since LIBER published its Five Principles for Open Access Negotiations in 2017. At the time, avoiding subscription fee…
07/03/2022
« This post was co-written by Dan Bolnick (The American Naturalist, Editor), Tim Vines (DataSeer.ai), Bob Montgomerie (AmNat Data Editor). This blog post addresses the value and flaws in current open…
12/01/2022
« Replacing traditional journals with a more modern solution is not a new idea, but the lack of progress since the first calls more than 20 years ago has convinced an…
25/05/2021
« CESAER, the European University Association (EUA) and Science Europe call on all publishers to fully respect researchers’ rights and to end the use of restrictions and embargoes.
On 25…
18/05/2021
« This briefing paper issued by the Committee on Scientific Library Services and Information Systems (AWBI) of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) on the subject of…
05/05/2021
« While we still have a long way to go before our community is truly diverse, equitable, and inclusive, it’s been great to see a range of DEI initiatives flourish in…
24/03/2021
« The German DEAL agreements between German universities and research institutions on the one side and Springer Nature and Wiley on the other side facilitate easy open access publishing for researchers…
12/02/2021
« For decades, the supra-inflation increase of subscription prices for scholarly journals has concerned scholarly institutions. After years of fruitless efforts to solve this “serials crisis”, open access has been proposed…
05/02/2021
« (…) As of January 2021, a group of private funding agencies and European governmental funding agencies called “cOAlition S” has begun implementing a set of principles designed to ensure that…
12/01/2021
« Last week John Wiley & Sons announced its acquisition of open access (OA) publisher Hindawi Limited for $298M. While this announcement sparked several questions and conversations in…