Despite New Journals Being Launched, the Viability and Effectiveness of Open Access Models Remain in Question

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 be uncertain. A Blog Article by Pablo Markin. As the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a non-profit journal publisher, has been seeking to diversify its revenue sources beyond paywalls to its scientific journals, such as Science, experimental metered access to its magazine-related news website, and Green Open Access to its journal archives, […]

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September 29, 2017

Though Arguments for Open Science are Aplenty, Institutional Barriers to Its Implementation Remain

As a latest Montreal-based initiative in neuroscience and the European “Horizon 2020” program show, despite efforts promoting it, Open Science continues to be exposed to budgeting and resources shortfalls. A Blog Article by Pablo Markin. As Giusppe Valiate reports, from 2016, based at Canada’s McGill University, the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital (MNIH) has been applying Open Science principles to its artificial intelligence research. As part of implementing Open Access in various fields of scientific inquiry, Open Science does not suffer from a lack of definitions, schools of thoughts or academic articles proffering arguments in its favor as Benedikt Fecher […]