« Project MUSE offers nearly 300 “HTML5” open access books on re-designed platform
More searchable and discoverable than PDFs, the improved new format represents the “next chapter” in OA publishing in the humanities and social sciences (…) »
« The announcement of Plan S by 11 European funding agencies has rocked the scholarly publishing community.
In a nutshell, these funders (and others that may join them) are banding together to impose Open Access (OA) publishing on their researchers. Most contentiously, the funders plan to cap…
« Self-archiving in Institutional Repositories (IRs) is playing a central role in the success of the Open Access initiatives. Deposited documents are more visible and probably they get more downloads and citations, but making them freely available in a local repository is not enough. Social tools, both public and academic targeting,…
« Les bibliothécaires de l’Université de Vienne, en Autriche, ont publié une analyse fort intéressante des différents contrats qu’ils ont négociés avec les éditeurs contenant une dimension « open access » ; plus précisément, ils se sont attachés à décrire les différents workflows à l’oeuvre pour couvrir le cycle complet…
« (…) International Open Access (OA) week has become a regular feature in the global OA calendar and the wide variety of innovative events popping up always generates plenty of interest. Here at Oxford University our first real participation was back in 2012, prompted by the Finch Report, with…
« Knowledge Unlatched (KU), the Open Access Marketplace, and IntechOpen, one of the leading providers of Open Access academic books, form a partnership to support researchers working in engineering. Over the next three years, they will publish around 300 open access books in the engineering sciences. Using the Knowledge Unlatched crowdfunding…
« Une modification du droit d’auteur belge permet désormais aux auteurs d’articles scientifiques financés par le secteur public de conserver le droit de rendre leur article disponible en libre accès, même s’il en est autrement stipulé dans leur contrat avec l’éditeur. (…) »
« The Directory of Open Access Journals is the world’s the most detailed directory of quality, peer-reviewed, open access journals. Being indexed in DOAJ is an internationally recognised hallmark of quality. To be indexed, journals must meet or prove that they partake in a series of standards common to the scholarly…
« On September 4, 2018, a coalition of research funders in Europe published Plan S, an ambitious plan to accelerate Open Access in Europe.
COAR welcomes the strong stance taken towards open access by a coalition of 11 European Funders, coordinated by Science Europe as outlined in Plan…
« Comment le FNS encourage-t-il le libre accès aux publications ? Un nouveau site web fournit des informations détaillées aux chercheuses et chercheurs sur son offre de financement et sur l’open access (OA) en général. (…) »
