« 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…
« Using existing budget and subscription processes without imposing paywalls, S2O provides a rapid route to open access that is applicable to research from all disciplines and all countries. cOAlition S encourages publishers to seriously consider the Subscribe to Open Model as a model for achieving full transformation to open access…
« Cyril Czernielewski, élève conservateur des bibliothèques de l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Sciences de l’Information et des Bibliothèques, s’est penché sur la question durant un stage de 4 semaines au sein de la mission d’appui à la recherche de la Direction de la Documentation et de l’Edition de l’Université de Lorraine,…
« (…) We are launching a survey of publishing organisations throughout Europe to identify and better understand existing and potential business models to support the open access publication of research monographs.
This is where we need the open access book community to step in: we invite you all to share…
« (…) The project develops a sustainable model of publisher-independent, quality-assured OA journals in small, transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary subjects. In this regard, it follows-up on a major result of the project “Innovative Open Access in Small Sciences” (2019-2021, DFG-funding). Furthermore, Scholar-led+ improves communication between central actors in the OA ecosystem: funding…
« (…) The Public Library of Science (PLOS) announced today it is using RightsLink® for Scientific Communications (RLSC) to manage its Community Action Publishing (CAP) model, which aims to eliminate author APCs in order to make its OA journals truly Open to Read and Open…
« Ces critères s’inspirent en grande partie d’un état de l’art international sur le sujet et ont fait l’objet d’une mise en correspondance des systèmes d’information internationaux qualifiants, Latindex et DOAJ (servant déjà depuis près de 20 ans des politiques nationales en terme d’analyse de la qualité des revues scientifiques), des…
« Last week John Wiley & Sons announced its acquisition of open access (OA) publisher Hindawi Limited for $298M. While this announcement sparked several questions and conversations in the industry, it was perceived by most to be quite a logical and somewhat intuitive move. Wiley and…
« Open access (OA) has widely been touted as a ‘radical’ alternative to the traditional scholarly publishing system, which has faced heavy criticism in the last twenty years for its oligopolistic market and high profit margins. Yet, this dissertation argues that – especially in scientific, technical and medical (STM) publishing –…
