Open Access Developments
Open Access in Education Goes Beyond Textbooks, to Encompass Online Courses, International Partnerships and Journal Publishing
While the potential of online learning and open educational resources continues to unfold in developed and developing countries, in the field of education Open Access experiences dynamic development, as universities mandate Open Access to research results, integrate free online textbooks and launch online courses and […]
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 […]
Open Science Goes Mainstream, as Acquisitions of Open Source Platforms Based on Open Access and Collaboration Make Headlines
The acquisition of GitHub by Microsoft shows that not only small and medium-sized companies value open source, but also large corporations discover that software development, as a research activity, demands Open Access for the solutions of its problems. A Blog Article by Pablo Markin. While […]
Topical Spotlights
Open Science Resources
The unknown land of treasures – gold open access books
In the case of books, authors from the global peripheral countries are more likely to choose gold open access as a way to publish their research results. While in the global core countries only 21.5% of book authors have at least one gold open access […]
The World Academy of Sciences funds Open Access in developing countries
Funding remains one of the main problems associated with Open Access. If readers do not have to pay for access to scientific knowledge, someone else has to cover costs of publishing. There is a growing number of so-called author-pays journals that offer high quality editorial […]
Using JURN to find open access journals in arts and humanities
If you are looking for unrestricted scientific material, for example in the form of free editions of journals, the Internet is the place to look. Open Access enjoys the full benefits of the web, and I can venture to say that without the Internet there […]
An Interview with Francesco Stoppa on a Geoscience Article Dealing with the Volcanic Activity of Vesuvius
In early 2017, Open Geosciences has published Stoppa et al.’s research results on the historical eruption of Vesuvius in 1631, in which a novel, simplified model of its volcanic activity has been proposed. A Blog Interview by Pablo Markin. While the model proposed by Stoppa […]