More than 1,800 researchers have endorsed the plan by science funding bodies to transition to Open Access their models of disbursing funds to researchers, as the European Plan S continues to garner international backing, such as from China. A Blog Article by Pablo Markin. Launched […]
As the European Plan S joins numerous research funding institutions in mandating the adoption of Open Access, empirical data for Western Europe and North America do not demonstrate dramatic spikes in Open Access article outputs after mandates come into force between 2009 and 2017, due […]
As the United States’ Congress writes into law Open Access to federally funded research findings, recent survey results indicate that Open Access continues to be misunderstood in the scientific community. A Blog Article by Pablo Markin. In early April 2018, research reports prepared on behalf […]
For research university libraries faced with dwindling budgets and rising costs integrating Open Access into their journal subscription can assist with negotiating better contract conditions, especially since recent studies suggest that academic faculty consult recent studies less intensively than assumed. A Blog Article by Pablo […]
In retrospect, the year 2017 demonstrates the staying power of Open Access, despite possible budget cuts, such as in the United States. Likewise, international foundations, Open Access publishing platforms, and European academic institutions have been fueling the transition to Open Access models internationally in 2017, […]
A recent empirical study by Néhémie Strupler and Toby C. Wilkinson demonstrates that openly accessible digital tools, such as open-source Git and R platforms, can increase the transparency of archaeological fieldwork, while adding methodological rigor to its procedures. A Blog Article by Pablo Markin. While […]
Though converting scholarly journals into Open Access continues to involve financial uncertainty, a Harvard-funded report shows that thousands of journals have flipped into Open Access in recent years through a variety of approaches. A Blog Article by Pablo Markin. In their study first published on […]
As Open Access journals gain in recognition across scholarly communities, Canadian universities voice increasingly vocal support for Open Access journals. A Blog Article by Pablo Markin. While the Budapest Open Access Initiative was launched in 2002, had Canadian co-signatories, such as representatives of the Universities […]