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…

« 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…

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

« (…) 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…

« 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…

« 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…

« 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…

« 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…

« Each year, the Public Knowledge Project* (PKP) posts a very large, and rather dry, dataset at the Harvard Dataverse Project. This open data provides…