Open Access Developments
European Science Funding Agencies Form a Coalition for the Promotion of Gold Open Access in Journal Publishing
On September 4, 2018, the European Commission and 11 European research funding organizations have created a cOAlition or Plan S initiative, as part of their intent to use their spending power to ensure that by 2020 all articles they support financially are immediately accessible via […]
The Directory of Open Access Books’ Growth Accelerates Despite Download Format and License Heterogeneity
As the Directory of Open Access Books has reached 10,000 titles in its catalogue in late 2017, it reflects an accelerated pace at which publishers join this Open Access initiative and make available their books and chapters to international audiences. Yet, only a minor share […]
Subscription-Based Journals May Be Facing the Music Industry Predicament due to File-Sharing Platforms
As large publishers fight via legal means illegal scientific article downloading, such as via Sci-Hub, empirical findings show that over 85% of paywall-protected article catalogues are accessible through no-fee, controversial repositories. A Blog Article by Pablo Markin. While legislative initiatives seek to strike a balance […]
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Parliamentary committee criticizes current policy on open access in the UK
The Finch Report and the policy on open access in the UK are under the fire of criticism. The present solutions that promote and favor Gold OA were met with numerous voices of dissatisfaction from within the scientific community. The House of Commons’ Business, Innovation […]
How Assyriology became Open Science? – Interview with Gábor Zólyomi on Open Access and his recent book
Your Academia.edu profile is really impressive. You uploaded more than 50 articles, which have been visited more than 13 thousands times. It has to be an important source of information for those interested in Assyriology. Why have you decided to make these works freely available? […]
Open Science dot com Recommends: Berlin Open Access Week Event
In Berlin on 22 October? Eager to learn and share about Open Access? Join the Open Access Week event co-organized by De Gruyter Open. We invite you to prepare your own short presentation. To participate, up to five image based slides should be sent to […]
DOAJ announced new rules
DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) is a well-known organization with the aim to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals. Right now you can find 9642 journals and 1120611 articles on the website.