How Freely Should Scientists Share Their Data?
How Freely Should Scientists Share Their Data?
The Open Science movement champions transparency, but how much and how quickly is a matter of dispute.
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DOAJ Under Attack from an Unknown Third Party
After much investigation and active measures, we can state that the DOAJ is effectively under attack from an unknown third party.
Affordable Open Access: There's a Way, Now We Need a Will
What will it take to make the majority of scholarship open access so anyone can read it without a paywall?
It Just Got a Lot Harder to Ignore Predatory Publishing
Thanks to a major new international research study, it's no longer possible to pretend that predatory journals are not a serious problem that needs serious attention.
Open Access Journals Have a Clear Citation Advantage over Subscription Journals
Open Access Journals Have a Clear Citation Advantage over Subscription Journals
This Frontiers blog post from presents a journal analysis contrasting open access journals and subscription journals based on data from SCImago (Scopus).
Russia Is Building a New Napster - but for Academic Research
Over the last decade, Russian academics and activists have built free, remarkably comprehensive online archives of scholarly works.
Free Access to Research Papers by 2020? "Impossible Without Radical Steps", Says Robert-Jan Smits
Free Access to Research Papers by 2020? "Impossible Without Radical Steps", Says Robert-Jan Smits
"It's not that difficult to flip the system," Smits continued. "The measures we are thinking about are not rocket science - they're straightforward. The main component: if you get a grant in the future, you can only publish in open access journals," he said.
Science Journals End Open-Access Trial with Gates Foundation
A pilot experiment has seen 26 papers published under open-access terms so far and should yield a report by the end of the year.
Understanding Open Knowledge in China: A Chinese Approach to Openness?
Understanding Open Knowledge in China: A Chinese Approach to Openness?
This paper examines the development of open knowledge in China through two case studies: the development of Chinese open access (OA) journals, and national-level OA repositories.
Funders Joining up to Speed Move to Open Access
A group of European funders, including the European Commission, will soon require researchers to publish only in open-access outlets that the funders consider high quality, the Commission’s open-access envoy has said.
GetTheResearch.org: A New Tool for Open-Access Research
A new search engine that aims to connect nonacademics with open-access research will be launched this fall. Get the Research will connect the public with 20 million open-access scholarly articles. The site will be built by Impactstory in conjunction with the Internet Archive and the British Library.
France Has Its OA Mandate
Frédérique Vidal, Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, launched the national open science plan at the annual congress of the Association of European Research Library (LIBER).
Funder Open Access Platforms: A Welcome Innovation?
Funder Open Access Platforms: A Welcome Innovation?
An examination of the ethical, organisational, and economic strengths and weaknesses of funder OA platforms to scope the opportunities and threats they present in the transition to OA.
Elsevier Serves the Global Research Community to Deliver Open Science?
Elsevier Serves the Global Research Community to Deliver Open Science?
A response to an article by Elsevier which critiqued a piece by Dr. Jon Tennant about them corrupting Open Science in Europe.
Guerrilla Open Access
In the 1990s, the Internet offered a horizon from which to imagine what society could become, promising autonomy and self-organization next to redistribution of wealth and collectivized means of production. While the former was in line with the dominant ideology of freedom, the latter ran contrary to the expanding enclosures in capitalist globalization.
Enago Open Access Journal Finder
This free tool helps you shortlist verified open access journals from DOAJ for publishing your manuscript thereby safeguarding you from predatory journals.
The Worst of Both Worlds: Hybrid Open Access
The Open Access movement was meant to provide universal access to knowledge, however the hybrid model seems to defeat this point by hindering the discoverability of hybrid Open Access articles, and creating more difficulties to disseminate knowledge.
Will Europe Lead a Global Flip to Open Access?
There appears to be no realistic path forward that achieves Europe's 2020 open access targets without resulting in substantial revenue reductions for existing publishers. Will Europe miss its OA target? Or will publishers miss their revenue targets?
Guest Post: Time to Check Out of the Hybrid Hotel?
Rob Johnson looks at the growth of hybrid open access, and questions whether it will remain a reliable revenue stream for publishers.
Q&A about the Cancellation of the Agreement with Elsevier Commencing 1 July
Why was the agreement with Elsevier not renewed?
Introducing the Free Journal Network: a Community-Controlled Open Access Publishing
Introducing the Free Journal Network: a Community-Controlled Open Access Publishing
The Free Journal Network was established earlier this year in order to nurture and promote journals that are free to both authors and readers and run according to the Fair Open Access Principles.
Why Open Access Publishing Is Growing in Latin America
Latin American researchers have a specific social commitment to ensure that their work is accessible and contributing to the good of their communities, says Victoriano Colodrón.
Trends for Open Access to Publications
European Commission data and case studies covering access to scientific publications. Bibliometric data as well as well as data on the policies of journals and funders are available.
Open Science Support as a Portfolio of Services and Projects: From Awareness to Engagement
Open Science Support as a Portfolio of Services and Projects: From Awareness to Engagement
Reaching higher uptake and acceptance of open science practice at the University of Göttingen.
Open Access Tools and Resources
A list with some open tools and resources, which hopefully, someone will find useful.
EU Set to Snub Hybrid Open-Access Journals
Horizon Europe will pay article processing charges only "for purely open-access publishing venues (i.e. not 'hybrid' journals)". The change would be controversial as it could prevent researchers from publishing in their first-choice locations.
Hybrid OA Journal Monitor
An open source dashboard presenting the uptake of hybrid open access for 3,347 different journals from 42 publishers between 2013 and 2018.
CORE Becomes the World’s Largest Aggregator
As of May 2018, CORE has aggregated over 131 million article metadata records, 93 million abstracts, 11 million hosted and validated full texts and over 78 million direct links to research papers hosted on other websites.
Sweden Commits to Open Science with New Open Access Publishing Deal
Swedish researchers can now publish their articles in Frontiers’ Open Access journals through a simplified process that covers publishing fees, thanks to a national agreement announced today between Frontiers and the National Library of Sweden.
Germany's Scientific Texts Were Made Free During and After WWII; Analyzing Them Today Shows the Negative Effect of Paywalls on Science
Germany's Scientific Texts Were Made Free During and After WWII; Analyzing Them Today Shows the Negative Effect of Paywalls on Science
In 1942, the US Book Republication Program permitted American publishers to reprint "exact reproductions" of Germany's scientific texts without payment; seventy-five years later, the fate of this scientific knowledge forms the basis of a "natural experiment" analysed by Barbara Biasi and Petra Moser.
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