« A number of initiatives exist in European countries to support open scholarly communication in humanities and social sciences. This article looks at the work of Open Access in the European Research Area through Scholarly Communication (OPERAS), a consortium of 36 partners from all over Europe, including many university presses, that…
« Ce jeu de cartes pédagogique a été créé au sein du SCD de l’Université de Guyane par Marie Latour et Caroline Boiteux afin de permettre aux joueurs l’appropriation des grandes notions de l’Open Access, et d’ouvrir le débat sur les enjeux de celui-ci. Pour cela, les joueurs sont invités à…
« An unintended consequence of the open access movement, predatory publishers have appeared in many countries, offering authors a quick and easy route to publication in exchange for a fee and usually without any apparent peer review or quality control. Using a large database of publications, Marcelo S. Perlin, Takeyoshi Imasato…
« (…) Mardi 4 septembre 2018, 11 organismes nationaux de financement de la recherche, avec le soutien de la Commission européenne, dont le Conseil européen de la recherche (E.R.C.), ont annoncé le lancement de cOAlition S, une initiative visant à concrétiser l’accès libre aux publications de recherche. Il est construit autour…
« On 4th September 2018 ‘Plan S: Accelerating the transition to full and immediate Open Access to scientific publications ‘ was launched. STM has issued a statement on the plan »
« Today, Tuesday 04 September 2018, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), joined funders from across Europe to launch cOAlition S, a collective declaration of a commitment to open access publishing in academia.
UKRI and the ten national funders forming cOAlition S, together with the European Research Council, have agreed to implement…
« (Brussels. 4 September) Today, 11 national research funding organisation, with the support of the European Commission including the European Research Council (ERC), are announcing the launch of cOAlition S, an initiative to make full and immediate Open Access to research publications a reality. It is built around Plan S, which…
« OATP entered its all-volunteer phase on September 1, 2018.
To insure that it serves the OA community in this new phase as it did before, we invite you to participate as a tagger, and help us recruit other taggers.
OATP aims to cover OA comprehensively, and can best…
« In Amsterdam, the libraries of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) cooperate closely. In this cooperation, the differences between a research university (i.c. UvA) and a university of applied sciences (i.c. AUAS) become particularly clear when we look at the aim and implementation…
« The main contributors of scientific knowledge, researchers, generally aim to disseminate their findings far and wide. And yet, publishing companies have largely kept these findings behind a paywall. With digital publication technology markedly reducing cost, this enduring wall seems disproportionate and unjustified; moreover, it has sparked a topical exchange concerning…
