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The following is a guest post by Musa al-Gharbi. In recent weeks, there has been significant turmoil around the journal…
The following is a guest post by Musa al-Gharbi. In recent weeks, there has been significant turmoil around the journal…
In this blog post, we examine key historical moments in research assessment, access to, and affordability of published research…
We all know the journals market has rapidly consolidated over recent years. But where's the data? I set out to find some…
The move to Open Access publishing has been driven in large part by a desire to make research publicly available and to make…
Copyright seems to be a fixture of our legal, economic and social systems. For 300 years, it has formed the backbone of the…
During the COVID-19 pandemic, preprint servers became a vital mechanism for the rapid sharing and review of vital research.
Por Naomi…
During the COVID-19 pandemic, preprint servers became a vital mechanism for the rapid sharing and review of vital research.
Techdirt has written many times about the dysfunctional state of academic publishing. The main issue is that academics do most…
As large commercial publishers adapt their business models to profit from an increasingly open access (OA) scholarly publishing…
by Virginia Barbour, Queensland University of Technology Last week, the United States announced an updated policy guidance on…
PLOS Note: we use this blog, on occasion, to highlight authors and their research. Today, we are shining a spotlight on this…
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The market power of academic publishers has been a concern for all those academic fields where publication in scholarly…
There’s no lack of academics and academe-adjacent people willing to publicly air their gripes about academic, or scholarly…
Techdirt's coverage of open access -- the idea that the fruits of publicly-funded scholarship should be freely available to all …
When modern copyright came into existence in 1710, it gave a monopoly to authors for just 14 years, with the option to extend…
To celebrate ten years offering a large proportion of the world's academic papers for free -- against all the odds, and in the…
By: Nancy K. Herther, writer, consultant and former librarian with the University of Minnesota…
Last month Techdirt wrote about some ridiculous scaremongering from Elsevier against Sci-Hub, which the publisher claimed was a …
Two years ago, Techdirt wrote about Plan S, an initiative from top research funders that requires all work they support to be…
After many years of fierce resistance to open access, academic publishers have largely embraced -- and extended -- the idea…
Por Dimity…
Stage one of the Open Access (OA) movement promoted the democratization of scholarly knowledge, making work available so that…
Stage one of the Open Access (OA) movement promoted the democratization of scholarly knowledge, making work available so that…
For Open Access Week 2020, Dimity Flanagan (Manager, Scholarly Communications) is speaking with researchers across the…
As Techdirt has reported many times, open access is a self-evidently great idea, but one that is still beset with many problems.
El 15 de diciembre de 2017, el Sistema Regional de Información en Línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina, el Caribe…
As Techdirt has reported, the open access movement seeks to obtain free access to research, particularly when it is funded by…
The culture of acceleration and quantification that arguably defines contemporary academic research is closely related to the…
This article by Professor Ginny Barbour
One of the most significant impacts of Plan S (the drive to initiate an open access transition in scholarly publishing) has…
Academic publishing hardly covers itself in glory, as Techdirt has reported over the years. It takes advantage of researchers…
Sci-Hub describes itself as "the first website in the world to provide mass
India has announced that it will not, after all, be joining cOAlition S. Instead it will focus on developing an open-access…
I contend that publishing articles in nearly all peer-reviewed journals amounts to a form of intellectual slavery. I defend my…
Interview conducted by Lizzie Sayer (International Science Council, Paris) and Dominique Babini (CLACSO, Buenos Aires). English…
Plan S launched by cOAlition S in September 2018 and updated after a round of consultation in May 2019, reflects the continuing…
Open access is often discussed as a process of flipping the existing closed subscription based model of scholarly communication…
In the early 1980s, Soviet intelligence began Operation Infektion—a campaign to erode trust in the U.S. government by…
For decades, the cost of subscription journals has been rising faster than inflation. Struggling with this serials crisis…
Accessing an academic journal no longer requires going to a periodicals room. (Photo: Newton W. Elwell/Boston Public Library/Flic…
An important justification for transitioning from a subscription based journal publishing system to an open access journal…
Por Shaun…
An important justification for transitioning from a subscription based journal publishing system to an open access journal…
The existing infrastructures of scholarship, both technological and institutional, are re-entrenching the dominance of research…
The progress of Open Access (OA) is often measured by the proportion of journals that have transitioned to OA publication models.
L'universalité est un principe majeur en Science. La création de nouvelles connaissances, les découvertes et les discussions ne…
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Balázs BodóIntroduction In 2016, Science published a short report on the usage of SciHub, a piratical scholarly journal article…
Plan S raises challenging questions for the Global South. Even if Plan S fails to achieve its objectives the growing…
You may recall that the Open Journal of Astrophysics recently published a paper by Syksy Räsänen of the University of Helsinki.
Source: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2019/01/02/welcome-to-the-great-acceleration Welcome to The Great…
Happy New Year! Does it feel like everything is happening at once? Welcome to The Great Acceleration. The post Welcome to The…
What exactly is Open Science? Its lack of an appropriate common definition has meant Open Science can be a variety of things; a…
When in 1915 the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) was formed, and published its Declaration of Principles…
A lot of our researchers put their work on ResearchGate, Academia.edu, their own web spaces or wherever. It’s perfectly…
In the current academic journal publishing system, a handful of corporate publishers control over 50% of the scholarly…
Kia ora! Haere mai! Welcome back to the second podcast in the series, SOAP (Scholarly and Open Access Publishing). This series…
Those who take on the global industry that traps research behind paywalls are heroes, not thievesNever underestimate the power…
Open Science is a strange concept. Depending on who you speak to, it can be a set of scientific practices, a social justice…
*** This article was originally posted on the OpenAIRE Blog *** ** Thank you to Mikael Laakso for the excellent feedback ** A…
Por Thaiane…
Scholarly communication has undergone great transformations in the last two decades, mainly due to the popularization of new…
Il PARCO DELLE BUFALE – Aspiranti scienziati costretti a saltare un pranzo su due tre speravano nel reddito di cittadinanza per…
LSE Press launches today, the latest in a succession of new university press initiatives and one that will support the…
Haggling for cheaper content today will certainly have hidden and unpleasant costs -- large and small -- down the road. The…
The cost of…
As Techdirt has pointed out a number of times, attacking the huge free online repository of academic papers, Sci-Hub, is wrong…
As I have previously reported, more and more countries in the global North are coming to the conclusion that if universal open…
Techdirt has written many stories about the publisher Elsevier. They have all been pretty negative: the company seems…
On a superficial reading open access is intended to do no more than what it says on the can: provide an internet-based…
Tech Dirt: “The open access movement believes that academic publications should be freely available to all, not least because…
Un papier, publié en 2016 sur arXiv, analyse les différences entre la version d’un papier sur un serveur de prépublication…
The open access movement believes that academic publications should be freely available to all, not least because most of the…
Over half of all research, according to one study, is now published by the big five of academic publishing: Reed-Elsevier, Wiley…
Posted in: en.hypothesesBehind the lawsuit-backed fines and media bruhaha around Sci-Hub, a controversial scientific article...
Behind the lawsuit-backed fines and media bruhaha around Sci-Hub, a controversial scientific article-sharing website operated…
The world of scholarly publishing is in upheaval. As the open science and open research movements rapidly gain momentum, the…
Scientific search engines are the Napster of academic papers—and they're only getting more powerful.
Image from shutterstock.com This article by Virginia Barbour was originally published on 27/10/17 on The Conversation. There is…
This blogpost was written by Danny Lämmerhirt, research coordinator at Open Knowledge International, and originally appeared on…
Scholarly communication has undergone a seismic shift away from closed publishing towards an ever-growing support for open…
So I celebrate my 10th anniversary in Academic librarianship at the end of this month - Aug 2017.Yes, I have been a academic…
Scholarly publishing faces daunting challenges. Rising journal costs have seen many universities have to make strategic cuts to…
Much of the rhetoric around the future of scholarly communication hinges on the “open” label. In light of Elsevier’s recent…
As a kind of quick follow up to my long ago post on Some perspective on “predatory” open access journals (presentation version…
In a previous Impact Blog post, Benedikt Fecher and colleagues envisioned a European Open Access Platform, an innovative public…
by Nancy K.
(A print version of this interview is available here)Fifteen years afterthe launch of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI…
In this post—adapted from a recently published piece making the case for open access in media scholarship—I argue that media…
Source: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2017/02/01/who-isnt-profiting-off-the-backs-of-researchersWho Isn’t Profiting…
ResearchGate-gate isn’t quite as catchy as other scandals, but it is something we might be hearing more about in the future. A…
Researchers’ choices are inevitably affected by assessment systems. This often means pursuing publication in a high-impact…
We finished an amazing year at ScienceOpen by celebrating our Open Science Stars, people truly working to make research a…