21.01.2025
Mot-clé : scholarly-publishing
16.01.2025
A collective commitment to strengthen Open Research Europe and amplify its impact in scholarly publishing
« In December 2024, ten prominent research funding and performing organizations in Europe signed a…14.01.2025
Aligning and Mutualizing Nonprofit Open Access Publishing Services Internationally (ALMASI)
« The objective of ALMASI is to provide the research community with an aligned, nonprofit, high-quality, and sustainable scholarly communication ecosystem…22.11.2024
Transforming scholarly publishing through the Publish, Review, Curate model
« On October 29-30, 2024, COAR organised a strategic meeting to discuss how to accelerate the adoption of the Publish, Review,…01.08.2024
Scoping the second phase of the Alternative publishing platforms work
« In 2022, KE’s task and finish (T&F) group on alternative publishing platforms (APPs) embarked on a project to create awareness…24.07.2024
Landscape of no-fee open access publishing in Africa
« This study provides an overview of open access (OA) journals in Africa that do not charge fees for either authors…18.07.2024
Announcing the Global Diamond Open Access Alliance – 10 July 2024 – UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France [video]
« The event marked the official announcement of the Diamond Open Access Global Alliance to…08.03.2024
Creating Community-Driven Pathways to Equitable Open Scholarly Publishing with CRAFT-OA, DIAMAS, and PALOMERA – Where Are We Now? WEBINAR Slides
« (…) Three projects. Over 40 partners. One goal: Community-Led Open Scholarly Publishing. (…) »01.03.2024
[EU publications] Study on scientific publishing in Europe: Development, diversity, and transparency of costs
« To support the Commission’s policies on open access, and subsequent to Council Conclusions to take concrete measures against the…05.12.2023
Open access: Dependence from article processing charges publishing in Portugal
« Conversely to diamond open access, gold open access is associated with article processing charges (APCs), which may represent an important…25.09.2023
Knowledge Exchange: Alternative publishing platforms. What have we learnt?
« Different alternative publishing platforms have appeared over recent years. But what are their pros and cons? Do they differ significantly…25.05.2023
Statement of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) on European Council Conclusions on “High-quality, transparent, open, trustworthy and equitable scholarly publishing” (.pdf)
« On 23 May 2023, the Council of the European Union adopted Council Conclusions on “High quality, transparent, open, trustworthy and…20.03.2023
The Landscape of Scholarly Book Publishing in Croatia: Finding Pathways for Viable Open Access Models
« Background: Open access to scholarly works is globally recognized as a goal to be achieved as soon as possible; however,…21.02.2023
Scholarly Publishing as a Global Endeavor: Leveraging Open Source Software for Bibliodiversity
« Each year, the Public Knowledge Project* (PKP) posts a very large, and rather dry, dataset at the…15.02.2023
Knowledge Exchange: Call for entries to explore Alternative Publishing Platforms
« Knowledge Exchange (KE) invites any platforms working in open access, publishing and communication who wishes…15.12.2022
Landscape study of small journal publishers for the Knowledge Exchange Task & Finish Group for « Small Publishers and the Transition to Open Access »
« The scholarly publishing landscape tends to be dominated by large corporate publishers that publish the majority of academic research. However,…11.10.2017
Appel de Jussieu pour la Science ouverte et la bibliodiversité
« Cet appel a été élaboré par un collectif français représentatif des chercheurs et des professionnels de l’édition scientifique regroupés notamment…01.12.2016
Relationships between Consumption, Publication and Impact in French Universities in a value perspective: A Bibliometric Analysis
« The study aims to investigate the relationships between consumption of e-journals distributed by Elsevier ScienceDirect platform, publication (articles)…17.11.2016
Towards an open science publishing platform
« The way science and research is done is rapidly becoming more open and collaborative. The traditional way of…microblogging.infodocs.eu, Hans Dillaerts, Vitek Tracz, Rebecca Lawrence, 16 novembre 2016
29.09.2016
How subscription-based scholarly journals can convert to open access: A review of approaches
« This article reviews the ways through which subscription-based scholarly journals have converted to open access. The methodology included…onlinelibrary.wiley.com, Mikael Laakso, David Solomon, Bo-Christer Björk, 19 septembre 2016
29.08.2016
A Large-Scale Analysis of Impact Factor Biased Journal Self-Citations
« Based on three decades of citation data from across scientific fields of science, we study trends in impact…journals.plos.org, Caspar Chorus, Ludo Waltman, 25 août 2016
01.07.2016
Scholarly Communication and the Dilemma of Collective Action : Why Academic Journals Cost Too Much
« Why has the rise of the Internet – which drastically reduces the cost of distributing information – coincided…18.05.2016
A longitudinal study of independent scholar-published open access journals
« Open Access (OA) is nowadays increasingly being used as a business model for the publishing of scholarly peer…microblogging.infodocs.eu, Bo-Christer Bjork, Cenyu Shen and Mikael Laakso, 10 mai 2016