Published in a recent issue of Open Theology, an article by Kristóf Oltvai, a graduate student at the University of Chicago’s Divinity School, indicates that, upon a close reading, the apostolic exhortations of Jorge Bergoglio, the current, 266th Pope Francis of the Roman Catholic Church, […]
Code Ocean, an Open Source data and algorithm sharing platform, assists large journal and book publishers to improve the reproducibility and transparency of scientific research results. A Blog Article by Pablo Markin. Global publishers, such as Taylor & Francis in January 2018, have been partnering […]
Prof. Toby Miller, the Editor-in-Chief of Open Cultural Studies, discusses how this Open Access, per-review journal has evolved since its launch, its positioning as a mega-journal in its academic field and its prospects in the years to come. A Blog Article by Pablo Markin. The […]
While the potential of online learning and open educational resources continues to unfold in developed and developing countries, in the field of education Open Access experiences dynamic development, as universities mandate Open Access to research results, integrate free online textbooks and launch online courses and […]
Open Access publishing grows in popularity internationally, due to the enabler role of digital infrastructures for social networking, global visibility, transparent peer reviews and low-cost solutions, such as national-level preprint repositories, built on top of them. A Blog Article by Pablo Markin. According to some […]
In the preprint version of her chapter on the performance of Twitter as a metric of scholarly impact that scientific articles have, which Stefanie Haustein wrote for the Handbook of Quantitative Science and Technology Research, a discussion on the validity of altmetrics is broached. A […]
Given that digital humanities, as a minor but growing academic domain, promote scholar collaboration, cross disciplinary boundaries and demonstrate public-mindedness, the celebration of its achievements, such as in research, underlines the centrality of Open Access to its public relevance. A Blog Article by Pablo Markin. […]
In a recent special issue of Open Archaeology edited by Barry Molloy, an interdisciplinary researcher with a doctoral degree from the University College Dublin School of Archaeology and extensive post-doctoral archeological fieldwork experience, such as in Cycladic Islands of Greece, 3D object scanning and modeling […]
While Canadian universities begin to make significant reductions in the number of scholarly journals to which they subscribe, large publishers, such as Elsevier, partner with scientific forums to provide at-cost publishing services for newly launched Open Access journals. A Blog Article by Pablo Markin. As […]
In the process of launching a new journal in social sciences at De Gruyter, an interesting and disconcerting statistic came to light. A Blog Article by Beata Socha. As part of assembling an editorial board for the journal, an equal number of invitations was sent […]