« This article offers a reasoned call for urgent reform of the academic journal publishing system. It focuses on the ethical flaws of the current for-profit model. This model enables the transfer of public funds into the profit margins of private companies that add no meaningful value to research and even…
« This study examines academic monograph publishing in the humanities and social sciences across the United States and Europe to understand how current business models are functioning for their consumer base, namely libraries and authors. Through desk research and interviews with librarians, content aggregators, publishers, and authors, we gathered data on…
« Episciences represents an innovative and sustainable approach to Diamond Open Access (OA) publishing through its overlay journal platform. As a pioneer in the overlay journal ecosystem, Episciences demonstrates how diverse funding streams can create a resilient economic foundation for Diamond OA publishing while strengthening the scholarly commons through an academic-led,…
« Different alternative publishing platforms have appeared over recent years. But what are their pros and cons? Do they differ significantly from traditional scholarly journals? To better understand what individual publishing platforms do and how they fit in the open scholarly communication ecosystem, Knowledge Exchange invited platforms working in open access…
« The transition towards open access (OA) varies across publication type, research field, and geography. For example, in STEM publishing, Individual article processing charges (APCs) have given way to transformative agreements, which in turn now seem to be losing favor in some regions. It has been an even greater challenge to…
« This study is mainly based on a questionnaire survey which was sent to over a thousand
Diamond journals and to which 260 people responded. We have put together a matrix of
questions structured around 4 subjects, enabling us to understand their financial situation:
the journal’s financial configuration,…
« La publication d’articles scientifiques en accès ouvert immédiat s’accomplit de plus en plus souvent moyennant le paiement de frais de publication. D’autres frais de publication existent, augmentent, voire sont nouvellement créés et pèsent eux aussi sur le budget de la recherche. Décryptage de ce phénomène inquiétant avec Alain Schuhl, directeur…
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« Since the early 2010s, more than half of peer-reviewed journal articles have been published by the so-called oligopoly of academic publishers – Elsevier, Sage, Springer-Nature, Taylor & Francis and Wiley. These publishers are now increasingly charging fees for open access journals, especially given the rise of funder OA mandates. It…
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« Serge Bauin, expert en publications à la direction des données ouvertes de la recherche (DDOR) du CNRS, présente un état de lieux de l’édition scientifique : les risques et dérives du système auteur-payeur, les innovations portées par les scientifiques, les recommandations du CNRS, etc. (…) »
« Karger Publishers is piloting the new Open Access model Subscribe to Open to help pave the way for a broader, more equitable Open Science ecosystem. Two subscription journals are now Open Access for 2023.
Following the successful first phase of the Subscribe to Open (S2O) pilot,…
