Are publisher profits justifiable?
It’s widely recognised that the established scholarly publishers skim an awful lot of money off the top of research budgets.
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Researchers to take on publishers over new EU copyright laws
Intense lobbying by scientists and journal publishing companies between now and the autumn is expected.
Disrupting the subscription journals' business model for the necessary large-scale transformation to open access
Disrupting the subscription journals' business model for the necessary large-scale transformation to open access
This paper makes the strong, fact-based case for a large-scale transformation of the current corpus of scientific subscription journals to an open access business model.
Area-wide transition to open access is possible
The Max Planck Digital Library has put forward a study on the transformation of the subscription-driven system for scientific publications to an Open Access model. For the first time, quantitative parameters are presented showing that the liberation of scholarly literature is possible at no extra costs..
How to comply with funders' open access policies
Navigating the various requirements can be difficult and time consuming for authors. Every funding agency seems to have slightly different specifics to their OA policies and each paper has multiple authors with multiple funding agencies supporting their research.
Don't think Open Access is important? It might have prevented much of the Ebola outbreak
Don't think Open Access is important? It might have prevented much of the Ebola outbreak
Open access isn't just some "free culture" refrain. It really matters and can save lives.
The open access advantage considering citation, article usage and social media attention
The open access advantage considering citation, article usage and social media attention
Study comparing the difference in the impact between open access and non-open access articles.
RCUK publishes first independent review of its open access policy
The first of a number of independent reviews of the policy during the transition period (five years from the policy being introduced), and covers the first 16 months, April 2013 to July 1014, of the policy’s implementation.
The Hague Declaration
The Hague Declaration aims to foster agreement about how to best enable access to facts, data and ideas for knowledge discovery in the Digital Age. Following a period of public comment, our global experts are now preparing the final version of the text.
NSF unveils plan to make scientific papers free
Scientific journal articles will become freely available, thanks to new policies at major U.S. science agencies.
On the importance of being negative
Negative findings matter too and new OA publications are helping researchers to give a fuller account of themselves.
An analysis of Wellcome Trust OA spend
To help make the costs around open access more transparent, the Wellcome Trust has published details on how much it spent on article processing charges in the year 2013-14.
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Scholarly articles are distributed almost exclusively in digital form. While there is an increasing number of journal articles freely available via green or gold open access, the majority of them still can only be read if the reader works at an institution with a subscription to the journal..
Why scholarly communication can't be free
The ‘no costs’ fallacy is based on the idea that for a commercial publisher, manuscripts are free, peer review is free, editorial boards are free, and electronic dissemination is free.
Open discussion with Michael Eisen
Michael Eisen co-founded the Public Library of Science, publisher of open access journals including PLOS ONE.
Taxpayers spend $140 billion funding science each year - but can't access many of the results
Taxpayers spend $140 billion funding science each year - but can't access many of the results
The British commentator George Monbiot once compared academic publishers to the media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, concluding that the former were more predatory.
Dutch universities dig in for long fight over open access
Institutions 'unbending' on fee-free demand as talks with Elsevier resume. Meanwhile, a deal that meets the universities’ requirements was made with Springer.
India's major science funders join open-access push
Two of India's science funding agencies are joining the push to make the results of the research they fund freely available to the public.
The direction of travel in scholarly publishing
Recent moves by established journals to make research papers freely available signpost the direction of travel in academic publishing
Nature makes all articles free to view
Nature will make its articles back to 1869 free to share to be read online but not to be printed or downloaded.
Counting the costs of OA
The estimated cost to UK research organisations of achieving compliance with OA mandates in 2013/2014.
Incentives for researchers
Each country, scholarly field, and institution has developed responses to new scholarly communication systems, and those policies and responses influence the behavior of the scholars within those systems.
Counting the Costs of OA in the UK
SPARC Europe and London Higher have jointly commissioned a study by Research Consulting into the overhead costs to universities of complying with the RCUK OA policy.
Gates Foundation to require immediate free access for journal articles
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation plans to require that the researchers it funds publish only in immediate open-access journals.
Aaron Swartz was no criminal
One of Swartz' lawyers, writes about the spiteful and unreasonable charges that led to his suicide—and MIT's gutless support of his prosecutors.
Why isn't academic research free to everyone?
Scholarly articles, filled with indubitable knowledge and analysis, only exist for the general public behind pricey paywalls. So one lecturer is advocating for them to be free of charge.
France prefers to pay (twice) for papers by its researchers
France may not have any money left for its universities but it does have money for academic publishers.
California leads to publicly funded research
California has become the first state to mandate open access for the products of taxpayer-funded research.
Engagement für mehr Öffnung
Er gründet eine Online-Zeitschrift ohne jegliche Schranke, twittert die Mitteilungen des Bundesgerichts und bemüht sich hartnäckig darum, dass alle Gerichte ihre Urteile zugänglich machen: Daniel Hürlimann rüttelt am Justizapparat.
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