Open Science

Your guide to Open Access publishing and Open Science

Author: Witold Kieńć

WHERE DOES OPEN CULTURAL STUDIES COME FROM? Editorial by Toby Miller

Open Cultural Studies is the latest venture by De Gruyter Open. This new mega journal, entirely in open access, seeks to become a go-to publishing venue for research in culture. How does it fit into publishing landscape and what readers and authors can expect? Editorial by Toby Miller.   WHERE DOES OPEN CULTURAL STUDIES COME FROM? Our new journal draws on a venerable history, even as it takes its inspiration from new technologies and desires of publishing and new interdisciplinary modes of thought and research. The word ‘culture’ derives from the Latin colere, a verb to describe tending and developing […]

The year 2016 in open access. Cracks in the mainstream – a subjective review

Looking back on the past, we can be more optimistic when we talk about the future of openness in academic research. The end of December gives a natural opportunity to look back on the passing year. For me this is the fourth time that I write “The year in open access” summary for opensciece.com blog. And, as usual, I am really moved when I think about how much progress has been made by the open access community in last 12 months. For the first time I have decided to add a subtitle to this review. I think that at the […]

Daniel Altshuler: all research outputs, and especially books, should be published open access

The 2016 Emerging Scholar Monograph Competition is on and any fresh PhD holder can submit his or her book proposal until 31 January 2017. On this occasion I am pleased to present an interview with the winner of a previous edition, Dr Daniel Altshuler, whose book “Events, States and Times An essay on narrative discourse in English” has been recently published in open access by De Gruyter Open. You won a previous edition of the Emerging Scholar Monograph Competition by De Gruyter Open. Consequently, your book has been recently published. Congratulations! Could you tell me what convinced you to take […]

Who is feeding predators?

I really have my favorites among pseudo-journals discovered by Beall. One of them is the Integrated Journal of British. Well, I do not agree with Jeffrey Beall in many points and I generally think that the importance of the subject of psuedo-journals is overestimated in his blog. However I really have a good time reading Beall’s posts and I do it from time to time. His collection (or list as he calls it) is something like a freak show, presenting the most crazy ideas that some people have about how to make money off of scholars. Beall is not very […]

Get your ORCID today

From time to time somebody will ask me which on-line platform for academic researchers is, in my opinion, worth investing time in. Where does it pay to set up a personal profile up and share some information? This question is increasingly hard to answer, since a number of possibilities are growing. Recently I was writing a post about Kudos, which is another platform for researchers. I noticed that one of its big advantages is that it is integrated with ORCID. Only then, I suddenly realized that there is no post about ORCID on this blog. Yet, in my opinion, ORCID […]

Open access funding guide for researchers

This guest post was authored by Milena Dobreva.[1] Do you really need a load of gold to pay for a gold open access publication? Last week a colleague was asking how to find good quality open access journals with reasonable fees in his research domain. Having previous experience with submitting manuscripts to various journals, this researcher was feeling confused by the differences in the costs and policies related to Article Processing Charges (APCs).[2] We both work in universities which still do not have a regulated stream to support the publishing fees for gold open access publications. Could one conclude that […]

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