« Thousands of smaller publishers in Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom play a key role in scholarly communication. These publishers offer vital channels of communication for all subject areas but are particularly important for scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. Additionally, they provide academics who…
« Open access outputs—particularly of journal articles—have grown considerably over the last 25 years, from a few percent of articles being openly available in the early 2000s to around 30 percent of published papers becoming accessible without paywalls by the 2010s (Heidbach et al., 2022). (…) »
« Le présent document a pour objectif de fournir aux scientifiques d’INRAE impliqués dans le processus de publication scientifique quelques recommandations pour une pratique intègre de la publication dans un contexte de science ouverte, en complément du document précédemment cité . Ce texte est le fruit de la réflexion d’un groupe…
« This year, we at Portland Press (publishing on behalf of the Biochemical Society) will convert our hybrid journals to Subscribe to Open (S2O). Going forward, if we receive sufficient renewal commitment from our library funder base, the contents of each annual volume will be published open access…
« The decade since the “Bottlenecks in the Open Access System” special issue of JLSC in 2014 has been an expansive one for open access (OA) and OA books in particular. The creation of a scholarly publishing ecosystem that enables works to be freely accessible for readers has been successful in…
« (…) In open access book publishing, there are a variety of PIDs in use, with different ways in which they can be created and managed. Their adoption and implementation rates across the open access publishing landscape differ widely, but as of now Thoth natively supports and integrates ORCID, ROR, and…
« The goal of this post is twofold:
to provide insights into key facts and figures; to raise awareness among authors about their rights and agency. (…) »
« Recent years have seen an increase in publishers exploring open access for monographs and book chapters. Programs like the Direct to Open from MIT Press and JSTOR’s Path to Open have provided avenues for libraries and authors to support open access monographs generally, but not campus authors specifically. On our…
« The CSIR-National Institute of Science Communication and Policy Research, New Delhi (CSIR-NIScPR), in collaboration with the CNRS- Department for Open Research Data, Open Science, Publications, Research Data and High Performance Computing, Paris (CNRS-DDOR), organized a two-day Indo-French Seminar on “Open Horizons: Integrating Open Access, Open Data, and Computational Innovation” on…
« The IOAP (Irish Open Access Publishers), of which I am manager and co-founder, was established in 2021 as a national community of practice to advance sustainable diamond open access (OA) publishing in Ireland. Its aim is “to unite and strengthen communication and knowledge sharing among a diverse range of Diamond…
