Open Access Developments
A Global Transition to Open Access May Be Stalemated by Standoffs between Publishers and University Libraries
On the background of Springer Nature’s stalled stock market launch, global journal publishers, such as Elsevier, could be digging in their heels in their negotiations with university associations over periodical subscription deals, as revenues and profit growth rates sag, while arguably slowing the expansion of […]
Preprint Repositories Gain in Institutional Legitimacy and Recognition, Reduce the Attractiveness of Subscription Journals
As Indonesian INA-Rxiv, a country-level preprint repository for papers across different scientific disciplines, is launched, scholars at German research universities and institutions rely on article preprint access during their transition from paywall-based publication models to Open Access. A Blog Article by Pablo Markin. Whereas in […]
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 […]
Publishing in Open Access
Open Science Resources
Global inequalities in science are bigger than those in the economy
Global inequalities in science are even bigger than those in the economy. Of course, to afford food is more important than to contribute to scientific discussion. Thus results of inequalities are less dramatic in case of scientific research, however, the case of Ebola might be […]
How to promote an Open Access Book? Part 2: Abstracting and Indexing
Are you, or would you like to become, a book author? Visit our other guides. Abstracting and indexing tools make finding scientific content easier and, what is more important for authors, make scientific content more discoverable. Some of these tools are more popular and some […]
Green OA vs. Gold OA. Which one to choose? – previous version
This is the old version of this post. You can find the improved version here. The advantages and disadvantages of Green and Gold OA are discussed by the scientific community all the time. Which one of these two models is more open and accessible? Which […]
Money for Open Access at the University of Virginia
Funding, funding, funding! It is not important whether we talk about Green or Gold OA, since Open Access cannot develop without financial backing. At some point in the publishing process someone has to pay, and for authors looking to publish their papers in OA journals […]