« Dès 2020, tous les articles issus de recherches financées par le FNS devront être publiés en libre accès après six mois. Dans une lettre ouverte, le FNS invite les principaux éditeurs à réduire leurs délais d’embargo. (…) »
« Un groupement de quelques-uns des plus puissants éditeurs scientifiques de la planète, comprenant notamment Elsevier, Springer Nature et Wiley, a mis en ligne GetFTR, ou Get Full Text Research, une plateforme destinée aux chercheurs. Cet outil doit permettre à ces derniers d’accéder plus rapidement et facilement à des résultats de…
« Scholarly publishers can help to increase data quality and reproducible research by promoting transparency and openness. Increasing transparency can be achieved by publishers in six key areas: (1) understanding researchers’ problems and motivations, by conducting and responding to the findings of surveys; (2) raising awareness of issues and encouraging behavioural…
« Universities UK has convened a new group to support and enhance the mandate of Jisc in negotiating publishing agreements with major academic publishers.
The formation of this new, high-level group recognises the importance of involving senior leaders from UK institutions in order to achieve sustainable, affordable and…
« Between July and September 2019 UNSILO carried out a survey of academic publishers. They were asked questions about their current and expected use of AI, following which they were asked questions about their attitudes to AI. (…) »
« (…) Yale University supports its researchers in making their research more widely available. As part of this support, Yale University Library has entered an institutional agreement with Frontiers. Under the terms of this agreement, Yale-affiliated corresponding authors will benefit from a 15% membership discount on article processing charges (APCs) when…
« The relationship between libraries and society publishers has not previously been a close one. While transactions have in the past been mediated by third parties, larger commercial publishers or agents, there is now an opportunity for strategic new collaborations as societies seek to transition to open access (OA) and deploy…
« Several publishers are concerned about the timeline for implementing Plan S, the European initiative that will make all research papers free to access (see Nature 561, 17–18; 2018). Their main concern is whether their markets will be ready for a ‘pay…
« There is a new class of scholarly journal. These journals are not open-access. You can’t purchase their articles individually. Individuals cannot subscribe to them. The only way to access their content is through a very small number of academic libraries.
I call these Super Closed Access Journals. Their purpose is clearly…
« This is an interesting question and one that early career researchers commonly ask. You’ve worked long and hard on your PhD thesis and achieved your doctorate. Congratulations! Your thesis is deposited in your institution’s open access repository and the findings are published and freely available worldwide. Can you work on…
