« The existence of an open access (OA) citation advantage, that is, whether OA increases citations, has been a topic of interest for many years. Although numerous previous studies have focused on whether OA increases citations, expectations for OA go beyond that. One such expectation is the promotion of knowledge transfer…
« EIFL, AJOL and WACREN announce the award of 17 grants to strengthen quality and sustainability of no-fee OA journals and journal platforms (…) »
« (…) In Deliverable 4.2, PALOMERA has developed an extensive set of actionable and aligned recommendations on Open Access (OA) books for eight stakeholders: (1) Research Performing Organisations (RPOs) and research institutes, (2) Public and private Research Funding Organisations (RFOs), (3) National policymakers, (4) Academic and national libraries, (5) Researchers, (6)…
« The comprehensive report is the outcome of a National Science Foundation-funded workshop, identifying critical issues in open access publishing and how to address them.
Today, the MIT Press is releasing a comprehensive report that addresses how open access policies shape research and what is needed to maximize their positive…
« The three EU-funded projects CRAFT-OA, DIAMAS & PALOMERA work towards an equitable future for scholarly communication, with the scholarly community at the centre. In this third instalment of the cross-project webinar series, which took place online on the 6th of November 2024 (…) »
« The current system of scholarly publishing is often criticized for being slow, expensive, and not transparent. The rise of open access publishing as part of open science tenets, promoting transparency and collaboration, together with calls for research assesment reforms are the results of these criticisms. The emergence of new open…
« Cooperation Agreement between the Scientific Information System Redalyc, the Foundation for Science and Technology, and the University of Minho.
We are pleased to announce the signing of a new cooperation agreement in Portugal, the first to be established with institutions of national significance. This agreement, which has a duration of…
« For a second year in a row, “Community over Commercialization” proved to be a powerful galvanizing theme for International Open Access Week, held on October 21-27, 2024. All around the world, advocates hosted creative events, shared research, and produced resources to help move open scholarship forward in the public interest.…
« This study draws on a longitudinal dataset of 277 UK learned societies covering the period 2015–2023 to provide evidence-based insights into the changing landscape of society publishing. It identifies a rapid decline in the number of self-published societies and an increasingly complex outsourcing landscape. New publishing partnerships are emerging with…
« This study aims to compare the geographical and disciplinary coverage of OA journals in three databases: OpenAlex, Scopus and the WoS. We used the ROAD database, managed by the ISSN International Centre, as a reference database which indexes 62,701 OA active resources (as of May 2024). Among the 62,701 active…
