« In Part I of “Beyond Open Access: Make Academic Content Truly Accessible for All,” we stated that open access alone is not enough to ensure genuine accessibility. Scholarly communication must go beyond simply removing paywalls. It must also be designed so that everyone, including those with disabilities…
« Academic publishing stands at a critical juncture where accessibility has become more than just a compliance requirement. It’s an ethical imperative — and an opportunity for innovation.
While open access has revolutionized how research reaches readers, true accessibility encompasses a broader spectrum of considerations that institutions, publishers, and service…
« This study conducts a quantitative analysis of the inclusion of open access (OA) academic books in the OpenAlex and Web of Science (WoS) databases from 2004 to 2023. It explores the differences
and trends between the two databases in terms of the number of OA books, annual variations, and…
« This article uses a recent retroactive open access project undertaken by an Australian university library to reframe attitudes and approaches to author self-archiving. In addition to the view that open access is something to be sought for new research outputs – at the time of publication or immediately after an…
« Open-access (OA) publications are peer-reviewed research articles that are accessible online to any reader without requiring a journal subscription or payment. These publications allow global researchers and other readers access to scientific research and have reshaped the structure of scientific publishing. Government and private funders, institutions, and scientists…
« The Royal Society sets out plan to move journals to full open access in 2026 through Subscribe to Open
The Royal Society has agreed plans that would make its journals fully open access in 2026 by adopting the ‘Subscribe to Open’ model.
Under plans agreed in July 2025,…
« Large bibliographic databases highlight tangible and symbolic differences regarding the standards of quality attached to them, underlining diverging incentive structures for small and large academic publishers. To assess the academic differences associated with these, we explore bibliometric data for small publishers’ journals from the Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus.…
« Octopus, which was launched in 2022, is an open access research dissemination platform that allows researchers across disciplines to produce multiple “micro-publications” for a given research project, offering readers a realistic, detailed portrayal of the research process. (…) »
« The deposition of pre-peer-reviewed scientific articles in repositories as preprints has been practised for over 50 years. Recently, the popularity of this practice has surged, particularly in chemistry and physics disciplines. In the life sciences, bioRxiv is a popular preprint server; however, its usage varies greatly between fields. Preprinting is not…
« (…) Open Access (OA) is often celebrated as a global success story, but behind the promise of openness lies a persistent issue: licensing and copyright confusion. Nowhere is this more apparent than in many regions of Asia, where OA adoption is accelerating, yet the legal and structural underpinnings of this…
