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Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, London, England, UK, December 4, 2007 | © Courtesy of Nick Garrod/Flickr.

De Gruyter is Among Top Five Open Access Book Publishers Internationally

A recent study based on the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) data indicates that, along with Frontiers Media SA, Presses universitaires de Rennes, Australian National University (ANU) Press and Springer, De Gruyter is among the five publishers with the highest cumulative Open Access book output around the world. A Blog Article by Pablo Markin. In recent years, the number of Open Access book titles published has continued to grow at an accelerating rate, while reaching 10,866 items in early 2018. As Keita Tsuji in his article on “Statistics on Open Access Books Available through the Directory of Open Access […]

Stockholms Stadsbibliotek, Stockholm, Sweden, May 28, 2009 | © Courtesy of Bruno Vanbesien/Flickr.

Elsevier Gets Blocked in Sweden After it Legally Requires Internet Providers to Make Sci-Hub Locally Inaccessible

Even though Elsevier, which had failed to sign journal subscription contracts with Swedish university libraries over their demands for Open Access, has won a battle against Sci-Hub, an illegal platform for sharing scientific articles, in local courts in Sweden, Bahnhof, a local internet service provider, both complied with the injunction not to offer access to pirated content and effectively counter-blocks local attempts at browsing the websites of Elsevier and the Swedish court. A Blog Article by Pablo Markin. As the largest player in the journal publishing market, Elsevier is significantly exposed to the risk that illegal file downloading, such as […]

Petri Art, the Wellcome Trust, London, England, UK, February 28, 2009 | © Courtesy of gwire/Flickr.

Though the Plan S May Significantly Affect Open Access Journals, it Can also Reduce the Publishing Market Concentration

As a formal complaint over the anti-competitive impact of Elsevier, a globally dominant scientific publisher, on the journal publishing market has been placed with the European Commission, such as due to the lacking transparency of its pricing practices, the Plan S is likely provide incentives to scholarly journals to change their models in the direction of making publication costs visible upfront in the Open Access sector. A Blog Article by Pablo Markin. In late October, 2018, the RELX Group, which holds Elsevier as part of its portfolio, was complained against, e.g., by the paleontologist Jonathan Tennant and the neurobiologist Björn […]

Art and Maths Workshop, University College London (UCL), London, England, UK, March 21, 2014 | © Courtesy of UCL Mathematical & Physical Sciences/Flickr.

With the Growing Number and Diversity of Mega-Journals, Exact Sciences Are at the Forefront of Open Access Adoption

As the majority of scientific publishers have been launching Open Access mega-journals in recent years, their impact on the journal publishing market remains uncertain. According to recent studies, however, biomedical research and mathematics appear to be leading the transition to various models of Open Access. A Blog Article by Pablo Markin. While a decade ago Open Access mega-journals have been a marginal phenomenon with total yearly article output hovering around 2,500 in 2008, by 2015 approximately 43,000 articles have been published in various scientific mega-journals. Whereas this sector has been largely dominated by PLOS One between 2006 and 2012, from […]

Prinz Friedrich von Homburg, Ein Schauspiel, 3X, Frank Stella, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA, June 6, 2009 | © Courtesy of Wally Gobetz/Flickr.

The European Union Promotes Open Access Amid Concerns Over Publishing Industry and International Policy Implications

As the European Commission seeks to obtain broad international support for its Plan S, such as in the United States, publishers may be significantly affected by the elimination of Open Access embargo periods on which Green and hybrid Open Access models critically depend for economic sustainability. A Blog Article by Pablo Markin. The core component of the Plan S championed by the European Commission (EC) is the immediate, free-of-charge availability of academic papers published with the support of the agencies responsible for funding the underlying research. Since the Plan S will be implemented in relation to the next 7-year Research […]

Ensure open access for internet service suppliers and ban roaming fees, say MEPs, European Parliament, Bruxelles/Brussels, Belgique/Belgium, September 10, 2014 | © Courtesy of European Union 2014/European Parliament/Flickr.

The Intention of the Plan S to Cap Article Processing Charges and Favour Gold Open Access Meets with Industry Criticism

Though the Plan S of European research funding organizations intends to promote Open Access and make it a default publication option by 2020, it has elicited critical responses from publishing industry representatives and European scientists concerned about the negative effects its rigid guidelines may have on the journal publishing market. A Blog Article by Pablo Markin. Though in a press interview, Carsten Buhr, De Gruyter’s Managing Director, has welcomed this Open Access initiative of the cOAlition of European Union-wide and country-level science funding bodies, he has also pleaded for flexibility as concerns the recommended level of article processing charges (APCs). […]