Open Access Developments
As Open Access Continues to Sparkle Media Debates, Its Progress Transforms Business Models and Leads to Partnerships
Though tensions between global journal publishers, such as Elsevier, flare up during their negotiations with academic libraries, the widening adoption of Open Access, such as in Switzerland, does not seem to be incompatible with journal publisher partnerships, as the prominence of Green Open Access indicates. […]
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 […]
The Journal Publishing Market Between Supply- and Demand-Side Models: The Case of Open Access in Germany
Without significant support for Open Access journals, large-scale transitions to Open Access may be slow to come, as the German case indicates. A Blog Article by Pablo Markin. In their recent news item for the Science Magazine, Gretchen Vogel and Kai Kupferschmidt have expressed their […]
Topical Spotlights
Open Science Resources
OA Friday: Should CC do away with proprietary licences? #OpenAccess #CreativeCommons
This is something I’m going to try and do every Friday: take a topic on OA and then try and encourage some discussion via the usual outlets (Twitter, Facebook and our own comments section below). Today’s discussion concerns whether or not the new Creative Commons […]
New OA funds at the University of Warwick
The new policy on Open Access pursued by the British government still raises a lot of controversy and inspires fierce debate. Nevertheless, it is impossible not to notice that the action taken by the government has borne fruit in the shape of newly launched funds […]
Only gold counts – open access books
Green open access to academic books seems to be a marginal phenomenon. Among respondents of the Key Challenges of Research Communication De Gruyter Open Survey only 17 authors archived an open access copy of a book that was originally published in toll access, which is […]
How to promote an Open Access Book? Part 3: Publisher’s brand
Are you, or would you like to become, a book author? Visit our other guides. I have decided to write another post on choosing a publisher because I think it is an important step and I want to discuss a different aspect that was not […]