« 14 scientific institutions have joined the national opt-in consortium for the central payment processing of APCs for articles of all journals of the open-access publishing house Copernicus Publications. This is an important signal for the open-access community and libraries because it makes it clear that open-access transformation – in this…
« The newly released refine option of Open Access on the Web of Science platform makes it possible to analyze the article-level OA content across the whole Web of Science database, including more than sixty million documents. In this study, employing the OA filter option of Web of Science, we perform…
« This chapter focuses on the analysis of current publication trends in gold Open Access (OA). The purpose of the chapter is to develop a full understanding on country patterns, OA journals characteristics and citation differences between gold OA and non-gold OA publications. For this, we will first review current literature…
« A new report outlines how Springer Nature has been able to deliver rapid growth in gold open access (OA) articles in the UK. (…)
The rapid growth in UK articles published via the gold OA route has been driven by a number of factors:
1. A strong uptake of…
« Purpose: The present study explored tendencies of the world’s countries—at individual and scientific development levels—toward publishing in APC-funded open access journals.
Design/Methodology/Approach: Using a bibliometric method, it studied OA and NOA articles issued in Springer and Elsevier’s APC journals during 2007–2011. The data were gathered using a wide number of…
« (…) An independent evaluation group has been studying the effects of the agreement and compiled recommendations to guide the upcoming renegotiations. The group also reviewed Springer Natures other existing offset agreements and found interesting differences in the agreements piloted. The review is presented in a transparent table, facilitating an international…
« Across the world there is growing interest in open access publishing among researchers, institutions, funders and publishers alike. It is assumed that open access levels are growing, but hitherto the exact levels and patterns of open access have been hard to determine and detailed quantitative studies are scarce. Using newly…
« (…) With this release, the open access identification has been expanded beyond the traditional 100% gold open access journals as identified from DOAJ and indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection to include the following:
• Gold open access articles are identified as fully published articles available from the…« Each year since 2013, Jisc Collections has asked UK institutions to submit data on their article processing charges (APCs). Last year, we published an analysis of APCs and subscription costs in the UK for the years 2013-2015.
Since then,
RCUK committed to extending their block grant…
