Scholarly Publishing

« In 2022, KE’s task and finish (T&F) group on alternative publishing platforms (APPs) embarked on a project to create awareness about APPs among the research community and research-supporting institutions. It aims to provide a clearer picture of what APPs look like in terms of functions, similarities, and differences. (…) »

« This study provides an overview of open access (OA) journals in Africa that do not charge fees for either authors or readers (often referred to as Diamond OA journals). It is based on survey responses from 199 journals, 21 institutional, national and continental platforms that host Diamond OA journals, and…

« The event marked the official announcement of the Diamond Open Access Global Alliance to engage stakeholders to a collaborative consultation effort to promote Diamond Open Access. (…) »

« (…) Three projects. Over 40 partners. One goal: Community-Led Open Scholarly Publishing. (…) »

« To support the Commission’s policies on open access, and subsequent to Council Conclusions to take concrete measures against the proliferation of insufficiently transparent contractual arrangements with publishers, this study was commissioned to provide a deeper understanding of the issues around practices and costs of scholarly publications, offer an analysis…

« Conversely to diamond open access, gold open access is associated with article processing charges (APCs), which may represent an important burden in research budgets. The aim of this study was to identify the level of dependence of Portuguese scholarly publications from the five major APC-based publishers: BMC, Frontiers, Hindawi, MDPI,…

« Different alternative publishing platforms have appeared over recent years. But what are their pros and cons? Do they differ significantly from traditional scholarly journals? To better understand what individual publishing platforms do and how they fit in the open scholarly communication ecosystem, Knowledge Exchange invited platforms working in open access…

« On 23 May 2023, the Council of the European Union adopted Council Conclusions on “High quality, transparent, open, trustworthy and equitable scholarly publishing”.
The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) welcomes the Council Conclusions and supports the landmark recommendations they put forward for the academic publication system. (…) »

« Background: Open access to scholarly works is globally recognized as a goal to be achieved as soon as possible; however, there is not yet a general understanding of how to achieve open access for books. In considering the most appropriate models of transition, an accurate and detailed insight into national…

« Each year, the Public Knowledge Project* (PKP) posts a very large, and rather dry, dataset at the Harvard Dataverse Project. This open data provides a summary of the known installations of PKP’s open source publishing software around the world (OJS for journals, OMP for…