Open Science Resources
The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository grows fast: 10 000 new OA papers in year!
The development of Open Access does has influenced not only universities but significantly other private and public institutions as well. Quite recently I have written here about special OA policy introduced by UNESCO, which only just published its guideline in French and Spanish. Today I […]
Emanuel Kulczycki: traditional publishing patterns waste the results of academic work
I am recommending to the governors the very same thing I do myself and that I suggest to my colleagues. It is absolutely necessary to publish all the outputs of publicly funded research in the open access model – says Emanuel Kulczycki, philosopher, communication specialist […]
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, new Open Access Funder, especially for low and middle income countries
Starting from January 1, 2015 all new funding agreements with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will be under the terms of its new open access policy, which requires all the research output to be discoverable and accessible on-line, under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 […]
Open Access app: Bookends On Tap
Today, almost everyone has a smartphone or tablet. With an instant access to the Internet and applications we can fully exploit the potential of these devices, also by means of using them in the process of searching for scientific sources. Recently I published a list […]
Open Access Developments
Despite Growth, Scientific Networking Sites Are Likely to Complement, Not Replace Open Access Repositories
Even though social media performance becomes increasingly important for scientists, questions about the implications that the business models of scholarly networking sites have persist, while leaving institutional repositories and Open Access publishers with a significant role to play in knowledge sharing. A Blog Article by […]
Despite Divided Opinions on their Practices and Prospects, Open Access Mega-Journals Command Significant Presence
A recent meta-analysis of mega-journal-related qualitative and quantitative findings by Valerie Spezi et al. (2017) indicates that Open Access mega-journals have become an established part of the scholarly publishing market, in spite of diverging views on their long-term effect on the marketplace. A Blog Article […]
As Journal Subscription Fees Exhaust Library Budgets, Universities Mandate Open Access Preprint Repository Publishing
Given that at some universities, such as the University of California San Francisco, journal subscriptions consume approximately 85% of collections budgets, switching to Open Access peer-reviewed pre-print repositories becomes an enticing alternative to toll-based scientific journals. A Blog Article by Pablo Markin. The financial data […]
