« The end of June 2021 marked the finishing line for the OPERAS-P project, a European Union funded giant, in which multiple institutions came together to carve a path forward for Open Science in Social Sciences and Humanities. As part of the Work Package focused on innovation we investigated innovative…
« There is no shortage of creative thought across publishers and librarians on new publishing business models. From my perch, where I lead society publishing at the American Mathematical Society (AMS), it is easy to be overwhelmed with the range of offerings – which are often backed by…
« Almost 50% of scholarly articles are now open access in some form. This greatly benefits scholars at most institutions and is especially helpful to independent scholars and those without access to libraries. It also furthers the long-standing idea of knowledge as a public good. The changing dynamics of open access…
« In collaboration with the Membership Advisory Board and arXiv’s leadership team, we’re pleased to announce arXiv’s updated sustainability model. This model, which is an expansion of the existing membership program, complements funding received from Cornell University, the Simons Foundation, and individual donors — and ensures that arXiv…
« Report details costs and prices related to the EDP Sciences-SMAI Subscribe-to-Open pilot program for mathematics journals
As advocates of open science, EDP Sciences and the Société de mathématiques appliquées et industrielles (SMAI) are pleased to share the first annual report relating to their Subscribe-to-Open…
« The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is pleased to announce that we have renewed our agreement with Jisc Collections to provide options to the UK library community that will sustain our publishing activities while offering the possibility of expansion. (…)
The new agreement with Jisc Collections cements our commitment…
« This report tackles a simple question: how can open access books be more successfully integrated into scholarly libraries? While there are some important practical efforts being made to address this question in a variety of different contexts, we explore the areas where further work is required to progress from a…
« In this brief note, we formulate 6 arguments that articulate why cOAlition S Organisations will not financially support the hybrid model of publishing. We define a hybrid Open Access journal as a subscription journal in which some of the original research papers are Open Access while others are only accessible…
« The third CHORUS Forum meeting, held last week, is a relatively new entrant into the scholarly communication meeting calendar. The meeting has proven to be a rare opportunity to bring together publishers, researchers, librarians, and research funders. I helped organize and moderated a session during the Forum,…
« (…) Volcanica (www.jvolcanica.org) has been accepting submissions for two years now, and at this time of writing has published 37 peer-reviewed manuscripts. Being a fully Open Access journal, Volcanica does not generate revenue from reader/library subscriptions, nor does it charge article processing charges to the authors. This…
