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Tag: Open Access in Sciences

Not only journals – open access to academic book chapters

The results of the Key Challenges of Research Communication De Gruyter Open Author Survey suggest that gold open access to academic book chapters is far from being a marginal phenomenon, despite its absence in the debate on open access. Similarly to the case of academic articles, gold open access is more popular among researchers from the global periphery, however the disciplinary differences are shaped here by a totally different pattern. The dominant voice in discussion on open access (OA) comes from the community of life scientists, who welcomed the success of numerous open access journals in the recent decade. These […]

Solving the monograph crisis with Open Access

Book processing charges for open access monographs may potentially bring more equality among authors, but this model needs to find some good funding solutions. “Open access is dear to our hearts, but it can’t lead to inequality among scholars” – claimed one of the scholars participating in a research project aiming to explore opportunities for direct author subventions on open access monographs. (S)he expressed the popular apprehension that the model in which the cost of book publishing is covered by the institution hiring a book author (or his/her research funder), will exclude scholars from less wealthy institutions and independent ones. […]

Abstracting & indexing services for open access journals in humanities: beginner’s guide

How to make an academic journal in the humanities visible to an international community? Open access is the first and very important step. But to create more opportunities to be read, cited and to attract more manuscripts, Abstracting & Indexing is essential. In this post by Marzena Falkowska and Peter Golla from the De Gruyter Online Marketing team we provide a step-by-step guide to Abstracting & Indexing for new open access journals in the humanities. So you’ve decided to launch an open access journal in the humanities – congratulations! You must already have some ideas about how to make it […]

Horizon 2020 and the social sciences: an overview

I am pleased to present a guest post written by Martin Donnelly from the Digital Curation Centre, University of Edinburgh*. As part of a shared commitment to transparency and public engagement in the research endeavour, the European Commission has recently begun an open data pilot as part of the Horizon 2020 (H2020) framework programme. This covers around 20% of the entire programme, and includes the ‘Innovation Actions’ and ‘Research and Innovation Actions’. Therefore, much of the H2020 work carried out in universities and other research institutions will be covered by the pilot, and it’s important to understand not only the […]

Copyright to third-party content and open access: Are all authors equal?

Recently published Guide to open access monograph publishing by OAPEN UK discuss very important issue for open access publishing in humanities: In many disciplines images, lyrics and music scores (just a small example of the variety) are critical to and underpin the monograph (in its many forms). Just as in the traditional print format, authors will be required to secure permission from the rights holder for inclusion of the content in the monograph that is to be published open access. Whilst there is no intrinsic reason why permission should be withheld, you may encounter resistance from rights holders due to […]

Jeremy Huggett, Davide Tanasi: What we want from open?

Thanks to digitalization, open data, open source and citizen science can play a huge role in contemporary archaeology. But researchers should first of all answer the question: “what do we want from open?”. I am pleased to present the interview with Jeremy Huggett, and Davide Tanasi, the coordinating editors of “Challenging Digital Archaeology”, a Topical Issue for Open Archaelogy, an open access journal by De Gruyter Open. Could you tell me a little bit about what digital techniques have already been used in archaeology and what is the possible future development in this field? Jeremy Huggett: Digital archaeology has been […]