« Elizabeth Knowles, Associate Editorial Director at Taylor & Francis, explains the principles of open access and the different licence options and open access models, and touches briefly on open data. (…) »
« Sixty one per cent of research outputs known to be in scope for the REF 2021 are meeting open access deposit, discovery and access requirements, with a further twenty per cent reporting a known exception, a report published today shows.
The report details the findings of a…
« Experiment aims to shift publishing models toward open access
The MIT Libraries and the Royal Society of Chemistry have signed a groundbreaking license agreement that incorporates elements of a traditional subscription purchase and open access to scholarly articles. The experimental two-year agreement is seen as an important…
« Support for the open access movement has grown in recent years, and today more than a quarter of scholarly literature is freely available. Yet, despite years of advocacy work and countless policies and mandates promoting openness, the majority of researchers are still not compelled to make their…
« Today, researchers benefit from an extremely powerful electronic distribution system for scientific articles, which allows any researcher (whose institution has paid the subscription fees) to access, via the internet, most of the articles they need, instantaneously and regardless of one’s location. Electronic publishing has indeed enabled libraries to subscribe electronically…
« CORE, a global aggregator of full text open access scientific content from repositories and journals, has been growing at a fast pace over the last few months. As of May 2018, CORE has aggregated over 131 million article metadata records, 93 million abstracts, 11 million hosted and validated full texts…
« Le présent article est issu d’un travail collectif réalisé lors de l’Action Nationale de Formation 2017 du Réseau National des Bibliothèques de Mathématiques destiné à proposer des pistes d’action réalistes et concrètes en faveur de l’accès ouvert.
Un dépliant reprenant les principaux points développés dans cet article…
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« Preprints are here!!! Starting today authors submitting their manuscript to most PLOS journals* can also choose to post their article on bioRxiv, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s preprint server for the life sciences. This is an important development for both PLOS, for bioRxiv, for the authors we serve, and for the…
« LSE has unveiled a new open access publishing platform in partnership with Ubiquity Press.
‘LSE Press’, managed through the LSE Library, will provide a platform for high quality, open access research in the social sciences; supporting the development of publications that are innovative in terms of format, content and reach.
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