« Following a six-month review, we’re updating our open access (OA) policy. The changes will apply from 1 January 2020. Robert Kiley, Head of Open Research, explains what will be different and why. (…) »
« It is now six years since the publication of the Report of the Working Group on Expanding Access to Published Research Findings (Finch Group), “Accessibility, sustainability, excellence: how to expand access to research publications”. (…) »
« OA202-DE, the German National Contact Point Open Access, and Knowledge Unlatched (KU), the central platform for sustainable Open Access (OA) financing models, are working together to convert scientific journals from a subscription model to Open Access on a large scale. As many as 50 journals from ten publishers are to…
« (…) This white paper is the first deliverable of the OA task force. Its goal is to give MIT students, staff, and faculty an overview of the open access landscape at MIT, in the United States, and in Europe to help inform discussions at the Institute over…
« Welcome to the October issue
This issue is released to the echoes of the announcement of « Plan S » from Science Europe. 11 European funders, including UKRI, have signed up to a robust and game changing set of principles for scholarly communications,with the Plan saying « . . . the subscription-based…
« De Gruyter is in the process of removing a number of open access journals from our platform. The 70 journals in question are former De Gruyter Open journals from the “Emerging Science Journals Program”.
It is common practice to evaluate the success of all journals after a period and the…
« Over recent years, Knowledge Unlatched has harnessed the effectiveness of its consortial funding model to become the largest gatekeeper to open access for scholarly books. But as Marcel Knöchelmann describes, the changing of its status from that of a community interest company to a German GmbH or public limited company,…
« The long term preservation of open access journals is one of the 7 criteria for the DOAJ Seal because DOAJ believes that it is an extremely important business process which a publisher of academic content should commit to. This couldn’t be more applicable than in…
« Our presentation is centred on the description of the French higher education and research environment and the way it has developed in the scientific and technical information domain, up the recent presentation of the national open science policy by Minister Frédérique Vidal in July 2018. (…) »
« The license negotiations with scholarly publishers must advance the transition to open access publishing, the Finnish university rectors demand in a statement published today. Universities Finland UNIFI gives its full support to FinELib consortium’s negotiation goals. (…) »
