Vested interests and insufficient sustainability may slow the international progress toward Gold Open Access, as a standard for the publication of scientific articles, despite philanthropic funding, even though in the European Union policy-based mandates may effect a wide-ranging switch from subscription-based models to Open Access […]
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 […]
As recent news on the HAU and Springer Machine Intelligence journal show, Open Access needs to be paired with sustainable publishing models to serve scholarly communities and deliver on its promise of unrestricted access to knowledge. A Blog Article by Pablo Markin. While interface barriers […]
As the growing availability of the self-archived and preprint versions of articles published in paywall-protected journals widens the gray zone between subscription-based and Open Access publishing models, the scientific journal publishing market undergoes a sea change with possibly momentous consequences. A Blog Article by Pablo […]
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 […]
Without significant support for Open Access journals, large-scale transitions to Open Access may be slow to come, as the German case indicates. A Blog Article by Pablo Markin. In their recent news item for the Science Magazine, Gretchen Vogel and Kai Kupferschmidt have expressed their […]
Scientific journals switching to Open Access that seek to diminish the impact of traditional publishers on access to knowledge incidentally make libraries and foundations more central to the publication workflow. A Blog Article by Pablo Markin. As Open Access becomes an increasingly central requirement with […]
As Open Access becomes a mainstream rather than a marginal phenomenon, a book-length argument in its favor Peter Suber (2012) proposes is validated by more recent findings. A Book Review by Pablo Markin. Few formats fit better Marshall MacLuhan’s dictum that “the medium is the […]
An increasing number of traditional and open access journal publishers are adding open peer review options, despite debates on their viability. A Blog Article by Pablo Markin. In 2006, Nature, an international weekly journal of science, has piloted open peer review, while admitting that open […]
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 […]