« (…) L’Open Access a une action positive dans de nombreux domaines en comparaison aux publications qui sont uniquement imprimées : les monographies librement accessibles bénéficient d’une visibilité accrue, leur portée internationale est plus large et elles sont plus fréquemment utilisées. Dans le même temps, on ne constate d’un point de…
« COAR is pleased to announce a webinar session with Prof. Leslie Chan, University of Toronto Scarborough entitled “Open Access in the global South: Perspectives from the Open and Collaborative Science in Development Network“.
Date & Time: 3 May, Thursday at 15h CEST/ 9h EDT
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As with science in general,…
« As part of the project Austrian Transition to Open Access (AT2OA) this event is focussing on Open Access monitoring and the (different) international approaches towards this topic. We aim to bring together different experiences and perspectives on the topic of the measurement of the Open Access share. Therefore definitions, processes…
« Hybrid open access options were introduced almost from the very start of the open access movement and play an important role in the transition. STM publishers urges funders and other institutions to continue to support authors’ academic freedom to select the journal of their choice by continuing to allow payments…
« Permettre l’accès le plus large possible à la connaissance scientifique et favoriser une communication ouverte entre chercheurs sont des objectifs qui figurent dans le projet de l’Université de Lorraine pour les cinq années à venir. L’université a pris plusieurs décisions qui marquent son engagement en faveur de la science ouverte.…
« The British Library intends to establish a research repository infrastructure to support a number of services, including a new institutional repository for our own research outputs, a new solution for two or more research-supporting digital collections managed by the Library, and as a shared service for the research outputs of…
« ICOA’18 a pour objectif de promouvoir l’Open Access par la mise en évidence de ses fondements épistémologiques, ses avancées et les réticences rencontrées. Les questions étant : quels sont les processus, les approches et les enjeux de l’Open Access ? Quels modèles adopter pour sa mise en œuvre ? Comment…
« Purpose: The present study explored tendencies of the world’s countries—at individual and scientific development levels—toward publishing in APC-funded open access journals.
Design/Methodology/Approach: Using a bibliometric method, it studied OA and NOA articles issued in Springer and Elsevier’s APC journals during 2007–2011. The data were gathered using a wide number of…
« It’s always frustrating to hit a paywall when you stumble across an exciting article.
Until recently, for many of us the only legal way of getting hold of the publication was to purchase the paper in question. But that is no longer the case for millions of scientific publications thanks…
