« De Gruyter and a consortium led by the Göttingen State and University Library (SUB Göttingen) have launched a project to transform humanities titles into Open Access books by providing consortium-derived financing for selected monographs or collected volumes from De Gruyter’s front-list. (…) »
« EMBO and EMBO Press are making their journals’ finances public to provide transparency and clarity about what it costs to publish articles in high quality, selective journals.
By EMBO Director Maria Leptin
The current debate on the appropriate costs for article-processing charges (APCs) in Open Access (OA) publishing is…
« This is Open Access Week, an opportunity for concentrated information sharing and reflecting on issues and policies. This year’s theme is “Open for Whom? Equity in Open Knowledge” which seems an apt theme for exploring open access (OA) and books, and particularly…
« Au sommaire de ce numéro : le site CoopIST évolue pour prendre en compte de nouveaux thèmes et de nouveaux usages ; 5 nouvelles fiches CoopIST sont proposées sur la gestion des données, l’article de synthèse, les modèles économiques des revues et la diffusion du preprint. (…) »
« Wellcome, UKRI, and the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) commissioned Information Power Ltd to undertake a project to support society publishers to accelerate their transition to Open Access (OA) in alignment with Plan S and the wider move to accelerate immediate OA. This project is part of…
« (…) The subscription monopoly has been broken. Content is a commodity; it is ubiquitous. What we are paying for by subscribing to journals is as much convenience now as it is access, and the valuation paradigm has to change. The cost per use model is too simplistic a measure as…
« …Or is it just one important among many others?
That is an open question. To approach it, we looked into available figures on open-access journals.
Out of the 13,337 journals that are listed in the DOAJ, a broad majority (9,752 journals) do not charge APCs (there…
« Open access is often discussed as a process of flipping the existing closed subscription based model of scholarly communication to an open one. However, in Latin America an open access ecosystem for scholarly publishing has been in place for over a decade. In this post, Eduardo Aguado-López and Arianna Becerril-Garcia discuss open access…
« (…) In this article we look at the main features of the existing monograph publication and distribution ecosystem, and question the suitability of this for open access monographs. We look specifically at some of the key economic characteristics of the monograph publishing market and consider their implications for new infrastructures…
« All of Pearson‘s 1,500 higher education textbooks in the U.S. will now be « digital first. » The company announced its big shift away from print today, calling the new approach a « product as a service model and a generational business shift to be much more like apps,…
