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 […]
Whereas the American Association for the Advancement of Science enters into partnerships with Chinese research organizations and universities to launch peer-reviewed Open Access mega-journals, the economic foundations of the Open Access models for book publishing and the public benefit from funding preprint servers continue to […]
As academic conferences become increasingly important vehicles for scientific collaborations and partnerships, Open Access can further the dissemination of cutting-edge findings, especially in the Global South. A Blog Article by Pablo Markin. Non-profit scientific organizations, such as the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), perceive international […]
As hybrid Open Access models fuel the uptake of Open Access among researchers, publishers roll out experimental agreements that combine subscription charges with Gold Open Access, as part of institutional memberships, while adding to model sustainability. A Blog Article by Pablo Markin. A recent publishing […]
August scientific journals flipped into Open Access and Open Science mandates’ expansion plans, such as in the European Union and United States, create a momentum not only for journal subscription deal cuts, but also for the recognition that paywalls hinder access to critical knowledge and […]
In their recent working paper, published at ArXiv on March 16, 2018, Alberto Martín-Martín et al. have found that effective Open Access to articles indexed by Google Scholar can reach more than 54% with important variation in findings for different access formats, subject areas and […]
As the London School of Economics is in the works to launch its own Open Access publishing platform, country-level associations of university libraries may be deciding to flip to Open Access on the basis of cost-benefit analyses of this model vis-à-vis subscription contract costs, as […]
Paradoxically, though the 2017 levels of Open Access article output have markedly declined across geographic regions and academic fields, the underlying trends tentatively point to the growing or stable levels of Gold Open Access over the last decade with rising levels of hybrid Open Access […]
While free-access and bronze Open Access articles from traditional publishers have been predominant in the Open Access market a decade ago and, according to some estimates, may continue to be more prevalent than other Open Access types, in recent years the number of articles published […]
Though press coverage tends to treat Gold Open Access as the goal of Open Science, a recent report by the University of California Libraries systematically reflects on alternative avenues for transitioning to Open Access as a bundle of different approaches and strategies that academic and […]