Add to ORKGhe problem of how we should transition to open access is now urgent. The current situation is one of exorbitant subscription journals and expensive open-access ones, and to address it requires organised action from academics. The Fair Open Access Alliance, set up to facilitate the conversion of existing subscription journals to open access, is an example of such organisation. Alex Holcombe and Mark C. Wilson outline the group’s five Fair Open Access Principles and encourage all librarians, researchers, and administrators to work together to secure agreement to cancel subscriptions and to pool funds to pay for open access infrastructure
Funding organisations commissioning their own open access publishing platforms is a relatively recen...
Data sharing is a key part of the drive towards greater openness in scientific research, allowing re...
As the "megajournal" has become more familiar as a concept, the term itself has come to feel more ne...
Open access debates are increasingly focused on “how” rather than “why”. Tony Ross-Hellauer and Bene...
One of the proposed advantages of open access publication is that it increases the impact of academi...
More than two decades of work towards liberating scholarly publishing from paywalled constraints has...
Discontent with the scholarly publishing industry continues to grow, as the prevailing subscription ...
As part of Academic Book Week 2018, last week Springer Nature hosted an event exploring open access ...
Where previously authors would typically assign rights in a scholarly work to an academic publisher,...
Open Access initiatives promise to extend access to scholarly conversations. However, the dominant m...
Open science is about increasing the reuse of research, and making sure that publicly funded researc...
A fundamental principle of open access is that publication technology enables the widest possible au...
The recent announcement by the U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) set out a require...
The peer review process has been subjected to a steady stream of criticism in recent years. This has...
The open access movement has failed. Self-archiving and open-access journals are struggling to deliv...
Funding organisations commissioning their own open access publishing platforms is a relatively recen...
Data sharing is a key part of the drive towards greater openness in scientific research, allowing re...
As the "megajournal" has become more familiar as a concept, the term itself has come to feel more ne...
Open access debates are increasingly focused on “how” rather than “why”. Tony Ross-Hellauer and Bene...
One of the proposed advantages of open access publication is that it increases the impact of academi...
More than two decades of work towards liberating scholarly publishing from paywalled constraints has...
Discontent with the scholarly publishing industry continues to grow, as the prevailing subscription ...
As part of Academic Book Week 2018, last week Springer Nature hosted an event exploring open access ...
Where previously authors would typically assign rights in a scholarly work to an academic publisher,...
Open Access initiatives promise to extend access to scholarly conversations. However, the dominant m...
Open science is about increasing the reuse of research, and making sure that publicly funded researc...
A fundamental principle of open access is that publication technology enables the widest possible au...
The recent announcement by the U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) set out a require...
The peer review process has been subjected to a steady stream of criticism in recent years. This has...
The open access movement has failed. Self-archiving and open-access journals are struggling to deliv...
Funding organisations commissioning their own open access publishing platforms is a relatively recen...
Data sharing is a key part of the drive towards greater openness in scientific research, allowing re...
As the "megajournal" has become more familiar as a concept, the term itself has come to feel more ne...