Open Access Developments
Scholarly Initiatives Use Open Access to Primary Data to Stimulate Scientific Collaboration with and between Developing Countries
Global scholarly portals in areas as different as African poetry and disease epidemiology plan to utilize Open Access to original texts and health-related data sets respectively, in order to support data sharing and research collaboration across international borders. These initiatives will also allow researchers from […]
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 […]
Open Access May Involve Hidden Costs for Journal Publishers, as Conflicts over Subscription Agreements Indicate
Elsevier’s hard line in negotiations with German and Swedish universities over journal access and publishing contracts can follow from the limited financial attractiveness of Gold Open Access in the long term. A Blog Article by Pablo Markin. Since late July, 2018, Elsevier had cut off […]
Topical Spotlights
Open Science Resources
Publons turns peer review into a measurable research output
Publons is a startup project and a website focusing on the peer review process. Thus, it is the next attempt to solve the widely discussed problems concerning a crucial point of scientific publishing. “Just as the electron is the fundamental unit of electricity, the publon […]
Do You Want to Be Read? Use Social Media
Open Access is inseparably linked with the evolution of the Internet, which generates new forms of interpersonal and marketing communication. Books published in an OA model are of course freely available, but only to those who can find them. One of the indeed greatest concerns […]
Open Science Journals to make science more open
Last month, De Gruyter Open revealed the conversion of eight journals from the subscription model to open access. This announcement applies to the STM journals established by Versita, a publishing house based in Poland, which were until recently distributed by Springer. Now, Versita – since 2012, operates […]
Open Access Week – a personal list of events
Open Access Week is an international annual event during which universities, institutions and other organizations hold conferences, seminars, workshops and similar events to celebrate and promote the idea of Open Access. This year’s Open Access Week, which officially lasts from 21 to 27 October, is […]