« 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…
« OpenDissertations.org, the project from EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) and BiblioLabs, has gone live. More than 800,000 Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) are now available for public search and discovery, with more than one million expected by June. (…) »
« En 2018, Les chercheurs français ne liront plus les revues SpringerNature : le consortium Couperin.org ne renouvelle pas l’accord national passé avec cet éditeur
Les chercheurs des organismes de recherche et universités de France ne seront plus abonnés en 2018 aux revues Springer. Les accès jusque-là maintenus seront coupés le 1er…
« Developments in early 2018: Negotiations on the « read and publish » model to take place with academic publishers. Action plan for the implementation of the national open access strategy approved. Studies in Communication Sciences converts to open access; University of Zurich survey reveals that open access meets with approval. (…) »
« At the end of 2017, Knowledge Exchange published a groundbreaking study to analyse existing information about how OA monographs operate in the six KE countries, together with Norway and Austria.
Following suggestions received as part of the feedback to this study, we have now published a summary of the full report. The…
« Scholarly communication has become expensive, restrictive, and increasingly falls short of realizing its full potential to make scholarly information broadly accessible. The University of California Libraries are committed to working collaboratively with a variety of partners and stakeholders to provide leadership in transforming scholarly communication into a system that is…
« To learn more about the goals and implementations of the HIRMEOS project, you can now watch the animation video realized for us by Neue Big, a creative studio focused on textual/visual narratives and explanatory formats, in collaboration with Alpaca (Design) and Worth Knowing (Animation).
The video, which you can now…
« NHMRC supports the sharing of outputs from NHMRC funded research including publications and data. The aims of the NHMRC Open Access Policy are to mandate the open access sharing of publications and encourage innovative open access to research data. This policy also requires that patents resulting from NHMRC funding be…
« Pour donner une suite concrète à la signature de l’appel de Jussieu, il est nécessaire que les établissements et instances de l’enseignement supérieur de la recherche en général, se positionnent pour trouver des mécanismes de financement de l’open access (désabonnement à des bases ou bouquets sur budgets…
« Open Access (OA) is gaining momentum in China, an STM powerhouse with scholarly research output which now rivals that of the U.S. In 2016, China’s R&D expenditure reached c. $241b USD, with nearly 440,000 articles published by Chinese authors (as recorded in Clarivate’s Web of Science). As this market continues to grow, it’s vital for publishers to understand…
