« This study investigates the development of open access (OA) to publications produced by authors affiliated with Ukrainian universities and research organizations in the period 2012–2021. To get a comprehensive overview we assembled data from three databases: Dimensions, Web of Science (WoS), and Scopus. Our final data set consisted of 186,000…
« A central academic norm is the idea that knowledge should be free and accessible to all. Yet much of the academic literature is still held behind paywalls placed by commercial publishing houses. The open-access movement was born as a reaction to this state of affairs. At a meeting held December…
« Although Germany lacks a uniform Open Access (OA) policy, it has a sophisticated OA culture that involves various initiatives centred around developing robust strategies. Therefore, it is a leader in establishing international and institutional cooperation and advocating for a cautious and non-mandated approach. (…) »
« As part of its work on Open Science, Knowledge Exchange is exploring how to raise awareness of alternative publishing platforms (APP) among the research community and research supporting institutions.
We are commissioning a study to discover how APP functionalities can support innovation in scholarly communication and gain deeper insights…
« We are delighted that the NORF-funded SCOIR project has a Draft model legislation to ensure open access to major Research Outputs produced by researchers and academics at Irish Institutions. SCOIR aims to unharness the power of open research by assessing and presenting options for…
« Against the background that universities and research institutions are required to develop integrated information budgets, the BMBF-funded project open-access.network 2 has been organising the workshop series Finanzielle Gestaltung der Open-Access-Transformation an Hochschulen und Wissenschaftseinrichtungen (Financial Design of the Open Access Transformation at Universities and…
« Today the MIT Press announces the release of the first 50 articles in the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (OECS), a dynamic, comprehensive, and openly accessible web reference developed to guide the next generation of exploration in cognition and intelligence. (…) »
« The purpose of the Global Summit on Diamond Open Access is to bring the diamond open access community and potential communities together in a dialogue between journal editors, organisations, experts, and stakeholders from around the globe.
The envisaged outcome of this dialogue is the consolidation and growth of diamond open…
« The Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) is excited to announce a partnership with the Next Generation Library Publishing (NGLP) project. This collaboration aims to test and enhance infrastructure solutions for academy-owned scholarly publishing programs that are open source, community-led, and rooted in academic values. The pilot project will create a…
« This study presents estimates of the global expenditure on article processing charges (APCs) paid to six publishers for open access between 2019 and 2023. APCs are fees charged for publishing in some fully open access journals (gold) and in subscription journals to make individual articles open access (hybrid). There is…
