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The government’s goal is that all pubclicly funded Norwegian research articles should be made openly available by 2024, and the government has established guidelines and measures for open access to research articles.
Consortium hopes to make all German-authored papers free to read by paying annual fee.
In the quest to make scientific publications free to read and free to publish, the million-dollar question is: how can it be sustainable?
The profit motive is fundamentally misaligned with core values of academic life, potentially corroding ideals like unfettered inquiry, knowledge-sharing, and cooperative progress.
Oxford researchers are advised that the University’s Research Committee has approved a revised policy for allocating funds from the RCUK Open Access block grant.
It’s a dirty open secret in academia. Scholars work very hard to prove their work is worth taxpayers’ money, but then publish it in journals that are prohibitively expensive—not just for taxpayers but academics themselves.
The infographic shows how to achieve 100% Open Access for free and legally.
A new project to convert PDF to XML with high accuracy by complementing existing tools with computer vision technology.
Consortium seeks country-wide licence for journals at reduced prices.
Large study of open research analysed reader data from Unpaywall tool, which finds freely available versions of articles.
German institutions and the publishing giant have still failed to agree a new deal. Could this become permanent?
Analysis finds website can fulfill 99% of requests for scholarly papers
From fungal networks sharing information and resources connecting all living things to the open source paradigm: Agroecology needs Open Access.
Open access looks set to shake up the humanities and social sciences book landscape for the better.
Openness requires trust in close peers, but not necessarily in research community or society at large.
A small change would open up a whole new class of works for which publishers could demand payment for the use of small snippets, apparently including works that the author had released under an open access license.
The Open Access Button directly reachs out to scholars who publish their work in paywalled journals to ask them to legally share their research.
These institutions join around 60 others that hope to put increasing pressure on the publishing giant in ongoing negotiations for a new nationwide licensing agreement.
The market is dominated by just a few publishers who exercise their power ruthlessly.
Group will explore opportunities to disseminate MIT knowledge as widely as possible.
Younger researchers may be particularly deterred by the fees associated with gold open access.
Stanford professor says $15 million lawsuit victory will not engender sympathy for publishing giant
Once again, the FWF is making the publication costs spent in 2016 (esp. for Open Access) publically available.
Carlos Moedas suggested a "decision" to create the platform had already been made.
The OA Journal Starter Kit has all the information you'll need to get a new open access journal up and running.
Recently, a new tool has come out that allows users to ‘jump the paywall’ and access research articles for free. It’s called Unpaywall, and it works by using information contained within papers.
Bastian Greshake has analysed the full Sci-Hub corpus and found that articles are being downloaded from all over the world, more recently published papers are among the most requested, and there is a marked overrepresentation of requested articles from journals publishing on chemistry.
Open-access mandates have the potential to significantly harm the publishing industry, writes the Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property.
Peter Suber and the Open Access Movement
Ahead of his address at Going Global 2017, Phil Baty looks at the relationship between the world’s best universities and their place in the world
