« Open Access (OA) emerged as an important transition in scholarly publishing worldwide during the past two decades. So far, this transition is increasingly based on article processing charges (APC), which create a new paywall on the researchers’ side. Publishing is part of the research process and thereby necessary to perform…
« Research findings have traditionally been published as peer-reviewed academic articles, monographs and edited collection, proceedings, or theses, with academic publishing companies being the main venue for the publication of findings. In order for research organisations to make research findings available to their researchers and students, they…
« Academic publishing has witnessed major changes in the context of digitalisation. Driven by the academic community, the changeover to open access (OA) for research results has greatly progressed over the last twenty years, even though it has by no means been implemented across the board. When the “transformation” of academic…
We are pleased to announce that the CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, France) has pledged to support the EDP Sciences and SMAI Subscribe-to-Open (S2O) mathematics programme with a financial contribution. The S2O mathematics programme has been developed with the Société de…
In honor of the 20th anniversary of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI), Scholastica reached out to OA leaders to get their take on the progression of the OA movement over the last two decades and recommendations to help advance fully-OA publishing in the years to come.
Kicking off the…
« The Finnish Literature Society (SKS) was founded in 1831 and has a long tradition of supporting and advancing studies in the Finnish culture and language. It is a learned society, which, among its goals, states its desire for “conveying information about oral and written Finnish cultures and their study” (“About…
« Helsinki University Press (HUP) is a young press, founded in 2017. The first OA book was published by HUP at the beginning of 2020.
It is a fully open access press, publishing both books and journals in all academic disciplines. They publish three OA journals and two book series, alongside…
« The theme for the International Open Access Week in 2021 is ‘Building Structural Equity’. Equity for everyone is a challenge in publishing in general. However, it is a task that needs to be dealt with for open access publishers as their business models, in general, need to include equal opportunities…
« Après plusieurs sessions consacrées aux données de recherche, le groupe de travail DIALOGU’IST du réseau RENATIS propose un 11e atelier « Science ouverte : du modèle économique à l’évaluation des résultats » mardi 30 novembre de 9h à 12h30 en visioconférence .
Après un état de l’art des modèles…
« Liverpool University Press (LUP) and the COPIM project are pleased to announce a partnership with Jisc on their Opening the Future membership programme. (…) »
