tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:/hubs/oatp/user/Tonydlp/atom 2021-06-12T08:42:29-04:00 TagTeam social RSS aggregrator tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/3069197 2021-06-11T09:48:32-04:00 2021-06-12T08:42:29-04:00

<p>INTRODUCTION The observation that open access (OA) articles receive more citations than subscription-based articles is known as the OA citation effect (OACE). Implicit in many OACE studies is the belief that authors are heavily invested in the number of citations their articles receive. This study seeks to determine what influence the OACE has on the decision-making process of tenure-track science faculty when they consider where to submit a manuscript for publication. METHODS Fifteen tenure-track faculty members in the Departments of Biology and Chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill participated in semi-structured interviews employing a variation of the critical incident tecnique. RESULTS Seven of the fifteen faculty members said they would consider making a future article freely-available based on the OACE. Due to dramatically different expectations with respect to the size of the OACE, however, only one of them is likely to seriously consider the OACE when deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication. DISCUSSION Journal reputation and audience, and the quality of the editorial and review process are the most important factors in deciding where to submit a manuscript for publication. Once a subset of journals has satisfied these criteria, financial and access issues compete with the OACE in making a final decision. CONCLUSION In order to increase the number of OA materials, librarians should continue to emphasize depositing pre- and post-prints in disciplinary and institutional repositories and retaining the author rights prior to publication in order to make it possible to do so.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/3069195 2021-06-11T09:36:50-04:00 2021-06-11T09:36:50-04:00

<p><span>The advantages of the open science movement in democratising education, strengthening the continental education and science systems, enhancing economic development and addressing the many challenges of Africa are well recognised.</span></p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/3065034 2021-06-08T15:59:24-04:00 2022-06-09T06:48:37-04:00

Springer Nature has signed its first sponsorship agreement for open access books with LYRASIS, a US non-profit membership association of libraries, archives, and museums, starting in 2021. The agreement is set to lead to the publication of new open access book titles. The collaboration will focus on climate change, equity, peace, and justice and will provide free access to research in critical areas that support the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). 

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/3069123 2021-06-11T09:28:03-04:00 2021-06-11T09:29:06-04:00

<p>A new database of open access content on the OCLC FirstSearch service will help researchers easily find open access resources from familiar content providers. Developed in response to requests from FirstSearch users, the Open Access Content database expands on OCLC’s 20-year history of partnering with the world’s leading content providers to represent high-quality open content in WorldCat and OCLC services.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/3065012 2021-06-08T15:37:53-04:00 2021-06-09T08:50:00-04:00

<p>AIBS has joined a group of 110 publishers, scientific societies, associations, and research-related organizations in expressing a commitment to advancing scientific communication through high-quality publications and responsible and sustainable public access.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/3060092 2021-06-04T10:13:27-04:00 2021-06-04T10:13:27-04:00

<p>We are delighted to announce that the University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder) has established an institutional membership agreement for open access publishing with Frontiers. </p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/3046413 2021-05-28T09:13:35-04:00 2021-05-29T10:40:23-04:00

<p>The drumbeat of calls for scientific publishers to become less restrictive and allow the authors of research papers to more freely disseminate and reuse their findings is growing louder. In a new joint statement, 880 European universities, research organisations and science funders are urging publishers to allow researchers to deposit their accepted manuscripts in a repository with an open licence.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/3044153 2021-05-27T09:17:57-04:00 2021-05-27T09:42:27-04:00

<p>We studied journal articles published by researchers at all eight New Zealand universities in 2017 to determine how many were freely accessible on the web. We wrote software code to harvest data from multiple sources, code that we now share to enable others to reproduce our work on their own sample set. In May 2019, we ran our code to determine which of the 2017 articles were open at that time and by what method; where those articles would have incurred an Article Processing Charge (APC) we calculated the cost if those charges had been paid. Where articles were not freely available we determined whether the policies of publishers in each case would have allowed deposit in a non-commercial repository (Green open access). We also examined citation rates for different types of access. We found that, of our 2017 sample set, about two out of every five articles were freely accessible without payment or subscription (41%). Where research was explicitly said to be funded by New Zealand’s major research funding agencies, the proportion was slightly higher at 45%. Where open articles would have incurred an APC we estimated an average cost per article of USD1,682 (for publications where all articles require an APC, that is, Gold open access) and USD2,558 (where APC payment is optional, Hybrid open access) at a total estimated cost of USD1.45m. Of the paid options, Gold is by far more common for New Zealand researchers (82% Gold, 18% Hybrid). In terms of citations, our analysis aligned with previous studies that suggest a correlation between publications being freely accessible and, on balance, slightly higher rates of citation. This is not seen across all types of open access, however, with Diamond OA achieving the lowest rates. Where articles were not freely accessible we found that a very large majority of them (88% or 3089 publications) could have been legally deposited in an institutional repository. Similarly, only in a very small number of cases had a version deposited in the repository of a New Zealand university made the difference between the publication being freely accessible or not (125 publications). Given that most New Zealand researchers support research being open, there is clearly a large gap between belief and practice in New Zealand’s research ecosystem.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/3041990 2021-05-26T10:35:04-04:00 2021-05-27T08:37:53-04:00

<p>Khalid El Bairi discusses the problem of predatory journals, providing his personal experiences in challenging this issue in Africa.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/3040394 2021-05-25T16:44:15-04:00 2021-05-25T16:44:15-04:00

<p>cOAlition S is pleased to read the joint statement by CESAER, the European University Association (EUA) and Science Europe calling on all publishers to fully respect researchers’ rights and to end the use of restrictions and embargoes. The statement signed by the presidents of the three organisations that represent more than 880 universities, research-performing and research-funding organisations is a strong show of support for Open Science and Open Access.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/3040379 2021-05-25T16:32:00-04:00 2023-02-08T12:48:30-05:00

Project MUSE, the massive online collection of journal and book content based at Johns Hopkins University, has received a $75,000 planning grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Public Knowledge Program to study the innovative business model for open access journal publishing known as “Subscribe to Open.” The grant, called “MUSE Open: S2O” and led by Project MUSE director Wendy Queen, will focus on developing a financially sustainable approach to open journal publishing in the humanities and social sciences that offers an alternative to “author-pays” models, thereby expanding both author and reader access and equity.

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/3040355 2021-05-25T16:04:35-04:00 2021-05-25T16:04:35-04:00

<p>Universities and research institutes urge science publishers to stop imposing embargoes on manuscripts funded by agencies that make open access a condition of public grants</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/3033512 2021-05-21T14:51:09-04:00 2021-05-21T14:51:09-04:00

<p>Much of the material created by the United States Government is not copyrighted, but many historical publications are only available in physical formats. In order to make this material more accessible, the Government Publishing Office (GPO) has been working with Federal depository libraries (Milner Library is one) to digitize and make accessible these documents. In May 2015, Milner Library became a GPO partner for its digitized collection of World War I posters.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/3031031 2021-05-20T09:13:04-04:00 2021-05-20T16:40:54-04:00

<p>Direct to Open (D2O) is a new, collective action model, built to support the open access publication of digital monographs from the MIT Press. Open scholarship benefits authors, readers, and the academy at large. At the same time, the traditional, market‐based business model for scholarly monographs no longer works. D2O seeks to move digital scholarly books—monographs and edited volumes—from a gated purchase model to an open community‐supported approach. D2O brings libraries and the MIT Press together to open access to knowledge in a new way.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/3032968 2021-05-21T10:08:17-04:00 2021-05-21T10:08:17-04:00

<p>Springer Nature has announced that theMajor Reference Work African Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation, the most comprehensive publication on climate change adaptation in Africa ever produced, will now be available open access (OA). As the largest publisher of academic books, Springer Nature has brought together over 100 contributions from across Africa with papers prepared by scholars, representatives from social movements, practitioners and members of governmental agencies, undertaking climate change projects in Africa, and working with communities across the African continent.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/3032966 2021-05-21T10:02:47-04:00 2021-05-21T10:02:47-04:00

<p>The Berghahn Open Anthro initiative in partnership with Libraria, has entered its second year of providing full open access to all thirteen journals in the collection. The positive feedback and support from the library community open to alternative models of open access has made this groundbreaking pilot possible.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/3027252 2021-05-18T09:47:55-04:00 2021-05-18T09:47:55-04:00

<p>After four days of online debates, legal and technical experts representing over 100 Member States examined and adopted by consensus the draft text of the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science. The text of the Recommendation will now be submitted to the UNESCO General Conference, for final adoption by all 193 UNESCO Member States in November 2021.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/3029256 2021-05-19T09:15:05-04:00 2021-05-19T09:15:05-04:00

<p>HealthMAY 18, 2021 11:03 PM AESTShare ACS signs ‘read and publish’ transformative agreement with IReL consortium The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) is proud to announce a new transformative “read and publish” agreement with the IReL consortium in Ireland. With this agreement, ACS expands its read and publish program to over 390 institutions across 23 countries.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/3021224 2021-05-15T10:10:14-04:00 2021-05-15T10:11:16-04:00

<p>View a deep dive into the current model of scholarly publishing that highlights the challenges and limitations of this model of research dissemination. This deep dive also focuses on the value of open access and elaborates on different open access levels (Gold, Bronze, and Green), before discussing how preprints/postprints may be leveraged to promote open access. See the slides here.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/3021218 2021-05-15T10:03:07-04:00 2021-05-15T10:05:26-04:00

<p>The background to the negotiations and why they matter.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/3019300 2021-05-14T13:06:52-04:00 2021-05-14T13:06:52-04:00

<p>Taylor &amp; Francis Group has launched the pilot of a new book publishing concept, Open Plus Books, that fuses the traditional print and Open Access books model with F1000's Open Research publishing model.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/3019296 2021-05-14T12:44:18-04:00 2021-05-14T12:44:18-04:00

<p>How many times have students attempting research stumbled on a great research paper but have been unable to access it because of a paywall? They would usually go to other places and look for something they can access for free even though it might not be as good as the one they just left behind. It is with this idea to help students gain access to their thousands of research papers in a myriad of subjects that the folks at Sona Group of Institutions decided to create an online repository. Students, researchers from across the spectrum can now have access to Sona's entire arsenal of published works for free.  </p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/3021191 2021-05-15T09:35:05-04:00 2021-05-15T09:35:05-04:00

<p>Taylor &amp; Francis Group has launched the pilot of a new book publishing concept, Open Plus Books, that fuses the traditional print and Open Access books model with F1000’s Open Research publishing model.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/3015279 2021-05-12T16:54:57-04:00 2021-05-12T16:54:57-04:00

<p>Open access means free, immediate and permanent access to academic research, with re-use rights. OA is becoming increasingly important in academic research as most research funders request it. This webinar provides a comprehensive introduction to open access (OA) publishing.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/3015202 2021-05-12T16:25:19-04:00 2021-05-12T16:25:19-04:00

<p>MALVERN, Pa., May 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Accessible Archives, Inc.®, a digital publisher of primary source historical collections, announces the full-text upgrade to its World War I: American Military Camp Newspapers, Part II, and open access to The AMAROC News, 1919-1923.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/3019272 2021-05-14T12:37:13-04:00 2021-05-14T12:37:13-04:00

<p>The model of asking researchers to publish their research in open access journals hurt many researchers in the Global South. Copyright:.Credit: National Institutes of Health Open access publishing excludes scientists from many developing countries due to the inadequate complex fee-exempt system, according to key researchers.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/3019270 2021-05-14T12:35:31-04:00 2021-05-14T12:35:31-04:00

<p>San Francisco, USA and Nairobi Kenya, May 12, 2021 - The Open Access publisher PLOS, and the Training Center in Communication, based at the University of Nairobi, Kenya, (known as TCC Africa) today announced a partnership to ensure that the interests and values of African research communities are represented in PLOS publications, policies, and services. The two organizations will work together to study and co-create pathways to Open Research that work for African researchers and stakeholders within the scholarly community ecosystem, while preserving the core tenets of Open Research.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/3018995 2021-05-14T10:01:03-04:00 2021-05-14T10:08:06-04:00

<p>Open access publishing is excluding many developing world scientists as complex fee waiver systems fall short, say leading researchers.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/3015180 2021-05-12T16:10:02-04:00 2021-05-13T08:17:07-04:00

<p>Under the motto Participation, the organisers of this year's Open Access Days are calling for proposals for lectures and workshops. The motto stands for the fundamental vision of Open Access (OA) and refers to the great potential that underlies most OA initiatives.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/3005421 2021-05-07T09:43:12-04:00 2021-05-08T08:57:08-04:00

<p>Initiated in 2018 by 12 European countries, the plan, driven by funders, will impact South African institutions. Plan S substitutes barriers to reading with barriers to authorship.The 13 European funding agencies (known as cOAlition S) require research to be published in compliant open access (OA) journals from 2020 onwards.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/3002418 2021-05-05T09:39:50-04:00 2021-05-05T09:39:50-04:00

<p>Negotiations between university libraries and publishing company John Wiley &amp; Sons have come to a successful conclusion. With the new agreement, the services of all three major scientific publishers are now available in open access to UZH researchers.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2941114 2021-04-02T14:34:11-04:00 2021-04-08T16:29:20-04:00

<p>(paywalled; preprint available: <a href="https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/ye7sx">https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/ye7sx</a>)</p> <p>Free and open source software (FOSS) is any computer program released under a licence that grants users rights to run the program for any purpose, to study it, to modify it, and to redistribute it in original or modified form. Our aim is to explore the intersection between FOSS and computational reproducibility. We begin by situating FOSS in relation to other ‘open’ initiatives, and specifically open science, open research, and open scholarship. In this context, we argue that anyone who actively contributes to the research process today is a computational researcher, in that they use computers to manage and store information. We then provide a primer to FOSS suitable for anyone concerned with research quality and sustainability—including researchers in any field, as well as support staff, administrators, publishers, funders, and so on. Next, we illustrate how the notions introduced in the primer apply to resources for scientific computing, with reference to the GNU Scientific Library as a case study. We conclude by discussing why the common interpretation of ‘open source’ as ‘open code’ is misplaced, and we use this example to articulate the role of FOSS in research and scholarship today. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Reliability and reproducibility in computational science: implementing verification, validation and uncertainty quantification in silico’.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2991067 2021-04-29T13:02:41-04:00 2021-04-29T13:02:41-04:00

<p>April 29, 2021 – Hoboken NJ – John Wiley &amp; Sons, Inc. today announced a new four year read-and-publish agreement with swissuniversities to provide unlimited read access and to accelerate open access publishing among over 40 Swiss higher education and research institutions across Switzerland and Liechtenstein.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2990979 2021-04-29T12:27:37-04:00 2021-04-29T12:27:37-04:00

<p>PLOS is rolling out five new peer-reviewed OA journals this year. They all have “an emphasis on directly addressing the most pressing health and environmental issues facing society today” and “will have institutional business model options that do not require individual Article Processing Charges (APCs).”</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2992890 2021-04-30T09:29:57-04:00 2021-04-30T10:09:05-04:00

<p>The comprehensive works of influential Urdu writer, social critic and political activist Sajjad Zaheer are now broadly accessible for scholarship and study thanks to a partnership between The University of Texas at Austin and Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD), with endorsement from the Indian writer’s estate.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2990653 2021-04-29T09:26:18-04:00 2021-04-29T09:26:18-04:00

<p>Jisc is inviting research managers from universities across the UK to attend a free webinar on 26 May In an unpredictable and fast-moving environment driven by a wide range of influences – including the Research Excellence Framework (REF), Plan S, and an increasingly diverse range of funder requirements – universities face a huge challenge to maintain and support a portfolio of research management systems that remain fit for purpose.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2993600 2021-04-30T16:15:17-04:00 2021-05-01T08:50:05-04:00

<p>swissuniversities has concluded a new Read&amp;Publish agreement with John Wiley &amp; Sons. It will provide students and researchers from over 40 Swiss higher education and research institutions access to the Wiley Online Library with over 1’450 journals. At the same time, this agreement enables authors affiliated to these institutions to make their scientific articles published in the hybrid journals openly accessible immediately upon publication.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2990652 2021-04-29T09:20:29-04:00 2022-06-23T08:00:15-04:00

Maine Policy Review, published by the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center at the University of Maine, is now being indexed in The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). 

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2990649 2021-04-29T09:09:49-04:00 2022-06-23T07:25:15-04:00

In April 2020, the OAPEN Library moved to a new platform, based on DSpace 6. During the same period, IRUS-UK started working on the deployment of Release 5 of the COUNTER Code of Practice (R5). This is, therefore, a good moment to compare two widely used usage metrics – R5 and Google Analytics (GA). This article discusses the download data of close to 11,000 books and chapters from the OAPEN Library, from the period 15 April 2020 to 31 July 2020. When a book or chapter is downloaded, it is logged by GA and at the same time a signal is sent to IRUS-UK. This results in two datasets: the monthly downloads measured in GA and the usage reported by R5, also clustered by month. The number of downloads reported by GA is considerably larger than R5. The total number of downloads in GA for the period is over 3.6 million. In contrast, the amount reported by R5 is 1.5 million, around 400,000 downloads per month.

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2988490 2021-04-28T09:28:28-04:00 2021-04-28T09:28:28-04:00

<p>In scientific publishing, the publication form Open Access, which ensures immediate, free and permanent availability of scientific publications on the Internet, is becoming increasingly important. This development can also be clearly observed at PTB: According to the PTB-Publica database, the proportion of open access gold and hybrid journal articles published has increased from 17.65% (2017) to 43.06% (2020) - with a further upward trend.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2988478 2021-04-28T09:19:18-04:00 2021-04-28T09:19:18-04:00

<p>For most students, the value of academia is highly regarded as the ultimate sign of success. Even more so, the definition of higher academia has become muddled with economic propositions that directly feed into capitalism rather than embracing the noble pursuit of knowledge.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2988462 2021-04-28T09:09:34-04:00 2021-04-28T09:09:34-04:00

<p>Measuring the impact of open access (OA) agreements is critical for developing sustainable open access business models, writes Tim Lloyd. And for an increasing number of funders, an important ingredient of impact is the audience. Yet existing analytics don’t do a good job of understanding how communities are engaging with OA content.  </p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2979320 2021-04-23T11:38:01-04:00 2021-04-23T11:38:01-04:00

<p>Newswise — April 23, 2021 – Wolters Kluwer, Health announced today the publication of two new, fully open access journals under its Lippincott® portfolio as part of an ongoing collaboration with the Chinese Medical Association (CMA). Cardiology Discovery and Infectious Diseases &amp; Immunity will accelerate the dissemination, exchange, and utilization of scientific research results in their respective fields.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2987048 2021-04-27T16:54:38-04:00 2021-04-27T16:54:38-04:00

<p>The online digital library project, “WikiLala,” which brings together and aims to digitize all the printed texts from the Ottoman Empire since the introduction of the printing press, has recently launched a full version of its website which had been in beta for a while. Since its launch, the website has attracted more than 200,000 visitors from 107 countries.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2987015 2021-04-27T16:42:55-04:00 2021-04-27T16:42:55-04:00

<p>The University Libraries Digital Initiatives and Scholarly Communications (DISC) has created a new online home for the New Mexico Historical Review. The journal is now open access for viewing previous issues from 1926 to 2013 in the UNM Digital Repository. The most recent six years will remain behind a moving paywall.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2987008 2021-04-27T16:35:39-04:00 2021-04-27T16:35:39-04:00

<p>APRIL 22, 2021 — UTSA researchers looking to publish open access scholarly articles may find it easier to do so thanks to a transformative agreement between UTSA Libraries and Cambridge University Press.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2986838 2021-04-27T15:01:20-04:00 2021-04-27T15:01:20-04:00

<p>Just over 5 years ago, Science Advances launched with great expectations. Small at the start—five deputy editors and about 30 associate editors—the journal received 1865 submissions the first year. Our focus was to publish groundbreaking Research Articles and Reviews on a range of topics in an open-access format, providing content to a broad audience. Over the years, small but mighty has morphed into large and strengthening. To support journal growth, the board has now expanded to 38 deputy editors, active scientists who are leaders in their fields, and more than 250 scientists and engineers as associate editors (https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/editorialboard). In 2020, the journal received 17,056 and published over 2100 papers. It is clear that Science Advances is well established and advancing brilliantly.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2979344 2021-04-23T12:25:34-04:00 2021-04-23T13:36:03-04:00

<p>When research is free for everyone, as it's been during the pandemic, scientific experts of all kinds can shine light on the many facets of a health crisis, writes Britt Glaunsinger.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2979343 2021-04-23T12:15:14-04:00 2021-04-23T12:15:14-04:00

<p>CRL and East View Information Services have opened the first release of content for Imperial Russian Newspapers, the fourth Open Access collection of titles digitized under the Global Press Archive (GPA) CRL Charter Alliance. This collection adds to the growing body of Open Access material available in the Global Press Archive by virtue of support from CRL members and other participating institutions.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2979324 2021-04-23T12:01:29-04:00 2021-04-23T12:01:29-04:00

<p>Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL Press) is exploring new types of online licensing arrangements with research institutions and libraries that build upon access to its collection of leading journals by incorporating an Open Access research publishing program for authors. These agreements combine, in a single annual payment, a “Read” fee for full access to the complete collection of CSHL Press subscription journals and a pre-set “Publish” fee for corresponding authors of accepted papers in all of its journals, including those which are currently fully Open Access. The goal, over time, is to maintain the highest standards of publishing in the biological sciences while reducing the reliance on traditional subscriptions and expanding the output of Open Access research.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2979321 2021-04-23T11:56:11-04:00 2021-04-23T11:56:11-04:00

<p>Monash University Publishing is delighted to announce that Kartini: The Complete Writings 1898–1904, edited and translated by Joost Coté, is now available through open access via Bridges, Monash University’s institutional research repository. With the open access release timed to coincide with the Indonesian national holiday Kartini Day on 21 April, Coté’s book is an essential resource for scholars and students around the world of Raden Ajeng Kartini (1879–1904) and her place in Indonesian history. Kartini is the latest Monash University Publishing scholarly title to be made available through open access soon after print publication, ensuring that the reach and readership of these works is maximised.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2966195 2021-04-16T16:01:17-04:00 2021-04-16T16:01:17-04:00

<p>In 2019, Portland State University partnered with OpenStax to provide students with free, peer-reviewed online textbooks. At the time, PSU was one of 10 schools nationwide selected to participate in the OpenStax Institution Partnership Program designed to increase the use of open-licensed online textbooks. </p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2965502 2021-04-16T09:43:02-04:00 2021-04-16T09:43:02-04:00

<p>In December 2020, the UVM Libraries made the decision to end their contract with Elsevier, a publishing company whose online database, ScienceDirect, contains many important medical and scientific journals. </p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2965435 2021-04-16T09:16:30-04:00 2021-04-16T09:16:30-04:00

<p>Several organizations have composed a thoughtful answer to the "why" of Open Access.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2966194 2021-04-16T15:55:50-04:00 2021-04-16T15:55:50-04:00

<p>The Henry Madden Library invites you to join us for two guest presentations on Open Science. Many in the Fresno State community are familiar with Open Access, the free dissemination of the published results of research and scholarship. Open Science includes additional practices, such as sharing research data, pre-registering methods, and more, that are aimed at making research more efficient, more transparent, more reliable, and more accessible to the general public. Please mark your calendar and register to attend these important presentations.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2966181 2021-04-16T15:43:58-04:00 2021-04-16T15:43:58-04:00

<p>PHILADELPHIA, April 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The American College of Physicians (ACP), publisher of Annals of Internal Medicine (Annals), one of the most influential peer-reviewed clinical journals in the world, and the American Heart Association (AHA) today announce a new partnership to jointly publish Annals of Internal Medicine: Clinical Cases (AIMCC). The digital, open access, peer-reviewed journal will publish case reports relevant to clinicians across the spectrum of medicine.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2958977 2021-04-13T10:29:21-04:00 2021-04-13T10:29:21-04:00

<p>Taylor &amp; Francis Group and Jisc have signed a three-year transitional agreement combining access and open access (OA) publishing to Taylor &amp; Francis Group’s portfolio of journals.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2958976 2021-04-13T10:26:37-04:00 2021-04-13T10:26:37-04:00

<p>The European Commission has now officially launched Open Research Europe, the open access publishing platform for scientific articles that present the results of research funded by Horizon 2020, and soon Horizon Europe. Open Research Europe is an open access publishing platform for the publication of research stemming from Horizon 2020 funding across all subject areas. The platform makes it easy for Horizon 2020 beneficiaries to comply with the open access terms of their funding and offers researchers a publishing venue to share their results and insights rapidly and facilitate open, constructive research discussion.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2959167 2021-04-13T12:29:25-04:00 2023-02-08T12:48:30-05:00

The MIT Press has launched MIT Press Open Architecture and Urban Studies, a robust digital collection of classic and previously out-of-print architecture and urban studies books, on their digital book platform MIT Press Direct. The collection was funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as part of the Humanities Open Book Program, which they co-sponsored with the National Endowment for the Humanities.

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2951508 2021-04-09T10:00:52-04:00 2023-02-08T12:48:31-05:00

Funded by Andrew W. Mellon and the National Endowment for the Humanities foundations as part of the Open Book Program, a collection of classic books, published between 1964 and 1998 are now available online as open access e-books through the MIT Press Open Architecture and Urban Studies book collection.

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2951493 2021-04-09T09:58:10-04:00 2021-04-09T09:58:10-04:00

<p>Karger is the first scientific publisher to sign a transformative Open Access (OA) agreement in Iceland. </p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2950204 2021-04-08T16:46:48-04:00 2021-04-09T08:26:19-04:00

<p>In 2018, an influential group of research funders announced a bold pledge: the scientists they fund should publish their peer-reviewed papers outside journal paywalls. The initiative, called Plan S, caused an instant uproar over its aim of ending journal subscription models — the means by which many scholarly publications have financed their existence. Its intended start date in 2020 was delayed, and its details were tweaked. But after much sparring over policy, the project formally began in 2021, with 25 funding agencies rolling out similar open-access (OA) mandates.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2948219 2021-04-07T15:01:07-04:00 2021-04-08T08:26:28-04:00

<p>To make all content across the Science family of journals more integrated, discoverable, and visually compelling for the reader, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world's largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals, will move its full suite of online content to Atypon's online publishing platform, Literatum, in the summer of 2021.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2947765 2021-04-07T09:14:13-04:00 2021-04-07T09:14:13-04:00

<p>The MIT Press has announced the launch of MIT Open Publishing Services, a scholar-focused, MIT-branded hosting and publishing services operation.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2950296 2021-04-08T17:00:28-04:00 2021-04-08T17:00:28-04:00

<p>New Delhi, Apr 4 (PTI) Global publishing major Wiley has said that open access is a key way to advance scientific discovery and knowledge-sharing in the post-pandemic world, and the firm remains deeply committed to expanding its open access offerings, but maintained that it plans to do so in a "legally and sustainable" way.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2946377 2021-04-06T12:24:25-04:00 2023-02-08T12:48:31-05:00

The MIT Press, a university press affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has launched the MIT Press Open Architecture and Urban Studies, an exhaustive digital collection of rare, sought-after, and previously out-of-print books on the subject of the built environment.

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2939020 2021-04-01T10:04:23-04:00 2021-04-01T10:04:23-04:00

<p>Wageningen University &amp; Research is strongly committed to the accessibility of research results and knowledge. Open Access publication of research results makes it possible to read these publications (online) without restrictions. In 2020 84% of the scientific articles, of which a WUR researcher is the corresponding author, was published Open Access. The efforts of WUR researchers and the strong Open Access policy bring the national goal of 100% Open Access a lot closer.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2937612 2021-03-31T13:34:33-04:00 2022-05-11T03:20:06-04:00

CCC announced that RightsLink for Scientific Communications (RLSC), its market-leading, comprehensive scholarly communications workflow solution trusted by more than 30 leading publishers representing 2,400 journals, is now being used to simplify the management of Open Access (OA) agreements between publishers and more than 800 institutions and funders in 40+ countries.

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2937611 2021-03-31T13:30:24-04:00 2023-02-08T12:48:32-05:00

CAMBRIDGE, MA, USA, March 31, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Today, the MIT Press launched MIT Press Open Architecture and Urban Studies, a robust digital collection of classic and previously out-of-print architecture and urban studies books, on their digital book platform MIT Press Direct. The collection was funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as part of the Humanities Open Book Program, which they co-sponsored with the National Endowment for the Humanities.

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2937232 2021-03-31T09:32:02-04:00 2021-03-31T09:32:02-04:00

<p>Wageningen University &amp; Research is strongly committed to the accessibility of research results and knowledge. Open Access publication of research results makes it possible to read these publications (online) without restrictions. In 2020 84% of the scientific articles, of which a WUR researcher is the corresponding author, was published Open Access. The efforts of WUR researchers and the strong Open Access policy bring the national goal of 100% Open Access a lot closer.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2937251 2021-03-31T09:40:49-04:00 2021-03-31T09:40:49-04:00

<p>In an effort to cut costs for college students, the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire is working to encourage instructors to move away from traditional textbooks and build classes around open-source educational materials.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2937494 2021-03-31T12:28:32-04:00 2021-03-31T12:28:32-04:00

<p>As groups consider an open-access model for their publications and other resources, three associations recently made the decision to offer their joint project for free online. The move is expected to benefit members, while not negatively impacting finances.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2928174 2021-03-25T08:33:03-04:00 2021-03-25T10:38:13-04:00

<p>The United States has mobilized the full force of its clinical research enterprise to address the Covid-19 pandemic, allocating billions of dollars to support timely research. As of January 2021, for example, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) had issued nearly a thousand awards cumulatively worth roughly $2 billion to support Covid-19 projects ranging from the development of medical products (including diagnostics and vaccines) to evaluations of population-specific risk factors and outcomes.1 Such initiatives, which have yielded new technologies and important evidence, illustrate the value of robust scientific infrastructure.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2928177 2021-03-25T08:44:51-04:00 2022-06-23T07:25:15-04:00

Jisc, the not for profit for research and education, is launching a toolkit that will help new university presses to find sustainable ways to publish open access.

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2927004 2021-03-24T15:39:18-04:00 2021-03-24T15:39:18-04:00

<p>Today (24 March), the European Commission launches its Open Research Europe publishing platform for scientific papers. The site will provide free-of-charge access to everyone: researchers, businesses and citizens alike. The platform will publish the results of research funded by Horizon Europe, the EU research and innovation programme for 2021-2027, and its predecessor, Horizon 2020.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2926982 2021-03-24T15:27:59-04:00 2021-03-24T15:28:38-04:00

<p>U of G is participating in a new agreement between SAGE Publishing and the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN). The CRKN-SAGE Agreement combines elements of a traditional subscription with increased open access to research articles published by authors from CRKN member institutions. The result is a reduced cost to researchers and increased access to Canadian research. The library is committed to increasing open access options for U of G researchers and this agreement represents a transitional step towards fully open access agreements.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2928239 2021-03-25T09:30:11-04:00 2021-03-25T09:30:11-04:00

<p>Since 2014, scientists at the University of Innsbruck have been conducting intensive research in the field of metascience – the science about science. Their goal is to better understand the process of knowledge generation and to make scientific research more transparent and open. In this way, scientific studies should deliver more valid results in the future.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2927003 2021-03-24T15:34:47-04:00 2021-03-24T15:34:47-04:00

<p>Springer Nature has signed its first ever institutional open access (OA) book agreement with the University of California, Berkeley Library. The agreement will cover a broad range of book titles across all disciplines -- from humanities and social sciences to sciences, technology and mathematics and, starting in 2021 and running for at least three years, will provide open access funding to UC Berkeley affiliated authors. The open access book titles will publish under the Springer, Palgrave, and Apress imprints, with initial titles set to publish later this year.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2928242 2021-03-25T09:39:51-04:00 2021-03-25T09:39:51-04:00

<p>March 23, 2021 - Enhanced data sharing and increased diversity will help accelerate precision medicine efforts and establish a more equitable healthcare industry, according to a new commentary published in Cell.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2928237 2021-03-25T09:22:14-04:00 2021-03-25T09:22:14-04:00

<p>The MIT Press announced today the launch of MIT Open Publishing Services, a scholar-focused, MIT-branded hosting and publishing services operation.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2927012 2021-03-24T15:51:35-04:00 2021-03-24T15:51:35-04:00

<p>Open access is a goal, not a methodology, and publishers, authors, readers, and funding institutions all continue to explore various options to offer creators that can remove barriers to accessing their works. While creators are often limited to the options offered by publishers and institutions, two recent developments in open access provide a new way forward and show an ongoing commitment to making scholarship more publicly accessible.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2920931 2021-03-20T09:38:39-04:00 2021-03-20T09:38:39-04:00

<p>University Libraries Digital Initiatives and Scholarly Communications (DISC) has archived over 300 videos of The University of New Mexico’s athletic games spanning from 1947 to 2004. The UNM Sports History Digital Archive has been added to the UNM Digital Repository making them available to the public just in time for March Madness.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2920197 2021-03-19T13:23:16-04:00 2021-03-19T16:27:33-04:00

<blockquote> <p>The new deal between the University of California System (the UC) and Elsevier was announced earlier this week with much fanfare, the UC <a href="https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/uc-news-uc-secures-landmark-open-access-deal-world-s-largest-scientific-publisher">declaring</a> it a “breakthrough,” Elsevier <a href="https://www.elsevier.com/connect/uc-and-elsevier-sign-transformative-agreement?dgcid=_TW_O_Connect&amp;sf243983401=1">touting</a> it as a “win for researchers,” and the LA Times columnist Michael Hiltzik <a href="https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-03-16/uc-wins-battle-with-elsevier">calling it</a> “a leap forward for the open-access movement.” The UC has been a trailblazer in supporting open access in a variety of ways, and they deserve a huge amount of credit for that. Their <a href="https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/scholarly-publishing/uc-open-access-policies-background/presidential/">system-wide open access policy</a> and their work <a href="https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/for-authors/open-access-policy/deposit/">supporting self-archiving</a> in the UC repository is awe-inspiring, as is their investment in surfacing and supporting many <a href="https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/uc-publisher-relationships/resources-for-negotiating-with-publishers/pathways-to-oa/">pathways to OA</a>. Their <a href="https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/uc-publisher-relationships/resources-for-negotiating-with-publishers/negotiating-with-scholarly-journal-publishers-a-toolkit/">negotiating toolkit</a> was a major help as we organized our own efforts with Elsevier.</p> <p>While libraries in the US <a href="https://news.library.virginia.edu/2019/03/07/six-things-uva-researchers-need-to-know-about-the-uc-system-walking-away-from-elsevier/">expressed solidarity</a> with the UC’s fight with Elsevier over pricing and open access when they walked away from negotiations in 2019, some US <a href="https://libraries.mit.edu/news/libraries-faculty/31888/">libraries</a>, librarians, and even some OA <a href="https://blog.frontiersin.org/2020/03/10/current-transformative-agreements-are-not-transformative/amp/">publishers</a> seem to be skeptical of the UC’s approach to ‘transforming’ scholarly publishing through its new deal with Elsevier. Why? I can only speak for myself, but here, in a nutshell, are some key things that make me hesitate to cheer this new deal</p> <p>[...]</p> </blockquote>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2919079 2021-03-18T09:56:21-04:00 2021-03-18T16:24:29-04:00

<p>More than two years after negotiations began, the University of California and the academic publisher Elsevier announced on March 16 that they had finally secured an open-access deal.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2919452 2021-03-18T15:45:33-04:00 2021-03-18T15:46:19-04:00

<p>After a very public feud two years ago, the University of California (UC) system has reached an open access deal with Dutch scientific publishing giant Elsevier. The four-year agreement is being billed as the largest such arrangement to date in North America. UC accounts for nearly 10% of all US publishing output, and Elsevier is the world’s largest academic publisher. The deal is valued at around $11 million (£7.9 million) in the first year, growing by 2.6% annually.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2919291 2021-03-18T12:25:46-04:00 2021-03-18T12:25:46-04:00

<p>March 18, 2021 - Hoboken, N.J. - John Wiley &amp; Sons, Inc. today announced a new four-year open access agreement with IReL, an e-resource licensing consortium for Irish institutions, to accelerate open access publishing and increase visibility for more than 150,000 students and researchers across Ireland.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2919078 2021-03-18T09:52:07-04:00 2021-03-18T09:52:07-04:00

<p>March 18, 2021 – Hoboken, N.J. – John Wiley &amp; Sons, Inc. today announced a new four-year open access agreement with IReL, an e-resource licensing consortium for Irish institutions, to accelerate open access publishing and increase visibility for more than 150,000 students and researchers across Ireland.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2919077 2021-03-18T09:49:13-04:00 2021-03-18T09:49:13-04:00

<p>AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS / ACCESSWIRE / March 18, 2021 / Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, and the Kooperation E-Medien Österreich (KEMÖ) / The Austrian Academic Library Consortium, including the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), have agreed on a three-year pilot to support continued reading and open access (OA) publishing for Austrian researchers. This pilot allows OA publishing in Elsevier's hybrid journals together with an additional one-year agreement that will support Austrian researchers to publish in fully gold open access journals. This agreement complements Elsevier's transformative and pilot agreements across many European countries and represents libraries, the funder and the publisher coming together to support open access.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2919076 2021-03-18T09:45:21-04:00 2021-03-18T09:45:38-04:00

<p>Marking a large step toward making research freely available to all, the UC system struck an open publishing deal with research publishing giant Elsevier.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2920929 2021-03-20T09:31:02-04:00 2021-03-20T09:31:02-04:00

<p>We are delighted to announce that Emerald Publishing has signed its first transformative open access agreement with the Bibsam Consortium. This progressive deal will run from 2021 until 2023, and it will enhance the publishing journey for researchers from 29 of its academic members institutions through access to more than 200,000 articles from 310 journals as well as publishing vouchers to accommodate all of their needs.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2920082 2021-03-19T09:24:08-04:00 2021-03-19T09:24:08-04:00

<p>March 18, 2021 – Hoboken, N.J. – John Wiley &amp; Sons, Inc. today announced a new four-year open access agreement with IReL, an e-resource licensing consortium for Irish institutions, to accelerate open access publishing and increase visibility for more than 150,000 students and researchers across Ireland.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2919993 2021-03-19T09:04:19-04:00 2021-03-19T09:04:19-04:00

<p>Nineteen years ago, a group of international researchers met in Budapest to discuss a persistent problem. While experts published an enormous amount of scientific and scholarly material, few of these works were accessible. New research remained locked behind paywalls run by academic journals. The result was researchers struggled to learn from one another. They could not build on one another's findings to achieve new insights. In response to these problems, the group developed the Budapest Open Access Initiative, a declaration calling for free and unrestricted access to scholarly journal literature in all academic fields.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2919981 2021-03-19T08:54:32-04:00 2021-03-19T08:55:38-04:00

<p>Today, the University of California announced a landmark, four-year open access publishing agreement with Elsevier, the world’s largest scientific publishing company. It’s the largest such agreement to date in North America and makes more of the UC’s research freely available to anyone, anywhere in the world.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2918190 2021-03-17T10:48:53-04:00 2021-03-17T10:48:53-04:00

<p>  On March 17th, the most comprehensive and authoritative biographical dictionary yet published for Ireland, the Royal Irish Academy’s Dictionary of Irish Biography (DIB), is moving to an open access model, making its entire corpus of nearly 11,000 biographies, spanning over 1,500 years of Irish history, freely available to all through a new website at dib.ie.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2917288 2021-03-16T12:18:59-04:00 2021-03-16T13:36:14-04:00

<p>Two years after a high-profile falling out, the University of California (UC) system and the academic publishing giant Elsevier have patched up differences and agreed on what will be the largest deal for open-access publishing in scholarly journals in North America. The deal is also the world’s first such contract that includes Elsevier’s highly selective flagship journals Cell and The Lancet.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2917313 2021-03-16T12:43:09-04:00 2021-03-16T12:44:43-04:00

<p>The University of California is declaring victory in its long battle with the world’s largest publisher of scientific, technical and professional journals</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2919075 2021-03-18T09:37:54-04:00 2021-03-18T09:39:08-04:00

<p> Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, and the University of California (UC) have signed a ground-breaking memorandum of understanding to support open access (OA) publishing across the 10-campus UC system.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2917312 2021-03-16T12:36:17-04:00 2021-03-16T12:36:17-04:00

<p>WARRENDALE, Pa., March 15, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- SAE International announced today the launch of SAE MobilityRxiv™, a first-of-its-kind, free online preprint server and sharing service for English-language preprints dedicated solely to the mobility and transportation field. The server will allow authors to upload and share manuscripts, such as preliminary, non-published research articles and papers, white papers, theses, and dissertations, that have not yet been peer reviewed, published or under consideration for publishing. MobilityRxiv is free for all users to browse, download, cite and use all papers according to the license associated with each paper.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2917289 2021-03-16T12:29:39-04:00 2021-03-16T12:29:39-04:00

<p>MELVILLE, N.Y., March 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- AIP Publishing, a leading not-for-profit scholarly publisher in the physical sciences, is pleased to announce a Read and Publish three-year agreement with Austria's prestigious Technische Universität Wien (TU Wien).</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2917202 2021-03-16T10:13:16-04:00 2021-03-16T10:13:16-04:00

<p>The Dystonia Medical Research Foundation (DMRF) has officially selected Frontiers as the publishing partner of its new Gold Open Access journal, Dystonia. The journal will shine a spotlight on the global research effort for a greater understanding of dystonia, as well as breakthroughs in basic, clinical and translational research in the field.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2913900 2021-03-12T16:47:38-05:00 2021-03-12T16:47:38-05:00

<p>Within nearly two decades after the open access movement emerged, its community has drawn attention to understanding its development, coverage, obstacles and motivations.To do so, they depend on data-centric analytics of open access publishing activities, using Web information space as their data sources for these analytical activities. Open access repositories are one such data source that nurtures open access publishing activities and are a valuable source for analytics. Therefore, the open access community utilises open access repository infrastructure to develop and operate analytics, harnessing the widely adopted Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) interoperability layer to develop value-added services with an analytics agenda. However,this layer presents its limitations and challenges regarding the support of analytical value-added services.To address these practices, this research has taken the step to consolidate these practices into the ‘open access analytics’ notion of drawing attention to its significance and bridge it with data analytics literature. As part of this, an explanatory case study demonstrate show the OAI-PMH service provider approach supports open access analytics and also presents its limitations using Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR) analytics as a case study. The case study reflects the limitation of open access registries to enable a single point of discovery due to the quality of their records and complexity of open access repositories taxonomy, the complexity of operationalising the unit of analysis in particular analytics due to the limitations in the OAI-PMH metadata schemes, the complex and resource-intensive harvesting process due to the large volume of data and the low quality of OAI-PMH standards adoptions and the issue of service provider suitability due to a single point of failure.Also, this doctoral thesis proposes the use of Open Access Analytics using Open Access Repository Data with a Social Machine (OAA-OARD-SM) as a conceptual frame work to deliver open access analytics by using the open access repository infrastructure in acollaborative manner with social machines. Furthermore, it takes advantage of the web observatory infrastructure as a form of web-based mediated technology to coordinate the open access analytics process. The conceptual framework re-frames the open access analytics process into four layers: the open access repository layer, the open access registry layer, the data analytics layer and open access analytics layer. It also conceptualises analytics practices carried out within individual repository boundaries as core practices for the realisation of open access analytics and examines how the repository management team can participate in the open access analytics process.To understand this, expert interviews were carried out to investigate and understand the analytics practices within the repository boundaries and the repository management teams’ interactions with analytics applications that are fed by the open access repository or used by repository management to operate open access analytics. The interviews provide insight into the variations in the types of analytic practices and highlight the active role played by the repository management team in these practices. Thus, it provides an understanding of the analytics practices within open access repositories by classifying them into two main categories: the distributed analytical applications and locally operated analytics. The distributed analytics application includes cross repository OAI-based analytics, cross-repository usage data aggregators, solo-repository content-centric analytics and solo-repository centric analytics. On the other hand, the locally operated analytics take forms of Current Research Information System (CRIS),repository embedded functionalities and in-house developed analytics. It also classifies the repository management interactions with analytics into four roles: data analyst,administrative, data and system management, and system development and support.Lastly, it raises concerns associated with the application of analytics on open access repositories, including data-related, cost-related and analytical concerns.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2913899 2021-03-12T16:37:56-05:00 2021-03-12T16:37:56-05:00

<p>An ambitious open-access publishing initiative backed by some of the world’s largest research funders came into effect in January. Plan S, as it’s known, has already started to transform the scientific world. But its success depends on continued pressure on big publishers and on getting more influential countries like Switzerland to sign up.   </p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2912205 2021-03-11T16:43:35-05:00 2022-06-23T06:28:55-04:00

De Gruyter was an early champion of open access and an advocate of opening content to all researchers. We published our first open access book in 2010 and launched our first fully gold open access journal in 2013. Today De Gruyter’s open access portfolio comprises more than 2,000 open access books and around 90 fully open access journals – published in-house or on behalf of learned societies.

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2912203 2021-03-11T16:36:13-05:00 2021-03-11T16:36:13-05:00

<p>Unlimited access to our three subscription journals – Development, Journal of Cell Science and Journal of Experimental Biology – is available to researchers at these institutions, and corresponding authors can publish an uncapped number of Open Access research articles at no cost to them.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2912179 2021-03-11T16:24:41-05:00 2021-03-11T16:26:27-05:00

<p>The MIT Press has announced the launch of Direct to Open (D2O). A first-of-its-kind sustainable framework for open-access monographs, D2O moves professional and scholarly books from a solely market-based, purchase model where individuals and libraries buy single e-books to a collaborative, library-supported open-access model. </p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2910312 2021-03-10T14:48:28-05:00 2021-03-10T14:48:28-05:00

<p>In February 2021, EBSCO became a sustaining contributor of DOAJ. I sat down with EBSCO’s Tamir Borensztajn, Vice President of Saas Strategy, to chat about EBSCO’s role as a discovery service, what Tamir thinks about “open” and where he thinks scholarly publishing is heading.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2910302 2021-03-10T14:45:30-05:00 2021-03-10T14:45:30-05:00

<p>Canadian Science Publishing (CSP)--a not-for-profit publisher of peer-reviewed STEM journals--is excited to announce a new transformative open access publishing agreement with the University of California (UC) that will offer unlimited open access publication for UC researchers publishing with its journals.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2920100 2021-03-19T09:33:04-04:00 2021-03-19T09:33:04-04:00

<p>A new study of open access journals which are free for readers and authors, known as “diamond journals” has been published. The in-depth report and its recommendations cover diamond journals across the world and provide a better understanding of the open access diamond landscape.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2897392 2021-03-02T16:01:56-05:00 2021-03-02T16:02:54-05:00

<p>Research aimed at solving Australia’s greatest challenges will be made increasingly accessible as part of a shift towards ‘Open Access’ models at the national science agency, CSIRO.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2897408 2021-03-02T16:19:42-05:00 2021-03-02T16:22:00-05:00

<p>Florida State University Libraries is launching FSU’s first open-access publishing program.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2897322 2021-03-02T15:44:30-05:00 2021-03-02T15:44:30-05:00

<p>Beginning in July 2021, the Journal of Veterinary Medical Education (JVME) will adopt a hybrid print and online publishing model that will incorporate open access of all published content.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2897178 2021-03-02T13:47:33-05:00 2021-03-02T13:47:33-05:00

<p>The MIT Press has announced the launch of Direct to Open (D2O). A first-of-its-kind sustainable framework for open access monographs, D2O moves professional and scholarly books from a solely market-based, purchase model where individuals and libraries buy single eBooks, to a collaborative, library-supported open access model.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2897324 2021-03-02T15:48:16-05:00 2021-03-02T15:48:16-05:00

<p>The Tulane University Libraries have signed two Publish and Read agreements with two major scholarly journal publishers. Under these recent agreements, newly published articles by Tulane researchers appearing in any of nearly 500 academic journals from Cambridge University Press and the American Chemical Society (ACS) will now be freely available to all readers under an Open Access model.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2886536 2021-02-24T12:13:51-05:00 2021-02-24T12:13:51-05:00

<p>Swedish institutions will benefit from a comprehensive OA transformative agreement that will accelerate open access publishing and extend access to high quality research</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2918233 2021-03-17T12:07:01-04:00 2021-03-17T12:07:01-04:00

<p>February 24, 2021 - Hoboken, N.J. - John Wiley &amp; Sons, Inc. today announced a new four-year open access agreement with the Conference of Italian University Rectors (CRUI) to accelerate open access publishing among a growing list of more than 65 universities across Italy.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2886356 2021-02-24T10:02:38-05:00 2021-02-24T10:02:38-05:00

<p>Michele Avissar-Whiting outlines the course of post-pandemic preprinting </p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2886334 2021-02-24T09:37:19-05:00 2021-02-24T09:37:19-05:00

<p>Curious about publishing in an OA journal but worried about the quality of the publication? Confused over article processing fees, and the different types of open access formats currently available (ex., Gold, green, and hybrid)? This workshop will provide an overview of OA Publishing, including types of OA policies, resources to evaluate publishers and journals, and how OA can promote your research. ** The Zoom link will be provided immediately following registration at https://tulane.libcal.com/event/7333491?hs=a . ** Read the related Library Guide, Open Access Publishing by Raquel Horlick, at https://libguides.tulane.edu/c.php?g=925528 .</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2886330 2021-02-24T09:33:05-05:00 2021-02-24T09:33:05-05:00

<p>February 24, 2021 – Hoboken, N.J. – John Wiley &amp; Sons, Inc. today announced a new four-year open access agreement with the Conference of Italian University Rectors (CRUI) to accelerate open access publishing among a growing list of more than 65 universities across Italy.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2885346 2021-02-23T13:55:12-05:00 2022-05-11T03:20:06-04:00

DANVERS, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, announces that RightsLink for Scientific Communications (RLSC), its market-leading, comprehensive scholarly communications workflow solution trusted by more than 30 leading publishers representing 2,400 journals, is now being used to simplify the management of Open Access (OA) agreements between publishers and more than 800 institutions and funders in 40+ countries.

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2886257 2021-02-24T09:25:03-05:00 2021-02-24T09:25:03-05:00

<p>Yale University Library has signed two innovative agreements that will allow Yale-affiliated authors to publish in any PLOS open access journal without paying article processing charges (APCs).</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2919380 2021-03-18T13:32:25-04:00 2021-03-18T13:32:25-04:00

<p>ROCKVILLE, MD - Biophysical Reports, the new fully Gold Open Access journal offered by the Biophysical Society (BPS), is now accepting submissions. The newest addition to the BPS's family of journals will feature short contributions (Letters and Reports) with rapid turnarounds as well as Research Articles and Reviews.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2886537 2021-02-24T12:16:38-05:00 2021-02-24T12:16:38-05:00

<p>AGU’s books program is adapting and growing with a number of new initiatives designed to improve the quality and expand the reach of our publications. We published a range of new titles across the Earth and space sciences in 2020, many of them aligned with AGU’s new strategic goals.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2886397 2021-02-24T10:53:17-05:00 2021-02-24T10:53:17-05:00

<p>The University of Bremen is developing an Open Science and Open Innovation Training in cooperation with eight partner universities from Europe for young scientists. The project is funded by the EU with a total of € 250,000 and started in early 2021.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2927021 2021-03-24T15:56:15-04:00 2021-03-24T15:56:15-04:00

<p>While Wikipedia is intended to be a general knowledge encyclopedia created by volunteers and reviewed by the general community of users, there are efforts to more closely integrate the contents with academic journal articles. This effort is being spearheaded by the WikiJournal User Group which seeks to “provide free, quality-assured knowledge” and enable “expert contributions in the traditional academic publishing format to improve Wikipedia content” through the Wiki Journal Project.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2882166 2021-02-18T16:09:12-05:00 2021-02-18T16:12:11-05:00

<p>In a world of paywalls, dubious business models and debatably illegal forces of change, three writers set out to make sense of it all.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2882165 2021-02-18T16:07:06-05:00 2021-02-18T16:07:06-05:00

<p>MELVILLE, N.Y., Feb. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- AIP Publishing, a leading not-for-profit scholarly publisher in the physical sciences, is pleased to announce a Read and Publish agreement with Graz University of Technology (TU Graz), located in Austria. Through this agreement all researchers at TU Graz will have access to 19 journals from the AIP Publishing portfolio (including select journals published on behalf of partners), from 1999 through the end of 2023. In addition, articles by TU Graz-affiliated corresponding authors accepted for publication in select hybrid journals (subscription-based titles that offer an open-access option) may be published open access without the payment of an article-processing charge (APC).</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2881859 2021-02-18T10:22:45-05:00 2021-02-18T10:22:45-05:00

<p>The integration of the Ex Libris Esploro solution with Oable, the open access workflow solution from Knowledge Unlatched, will help institutions manage article processing charges and facilitate open access publishing</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2886566 2021-02-24T12:45:00-05:00 2021-02-25T08:18:20-05:00

<p>ShareShare In a world of paywalls, dubious business models and debatably illegal forces of change, three writers set out to make sense of it all. Now it’s time to conclude our quest for knowledge by taking a look at the future of the scientific community and better yet, to gain those insights from researchers.  To that end, we interviewed dr. Bert Bakker on the issues of Open Science, the scientific landscape in the Netherlands and the future of scientific research.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2881176 2021-02-17T13:16:59-05:00 2021-02-20T10:59:27-05:00

<p>A proposed new Open Access (OA) policy from funding body UK Research &amp; Innovation (UKRI) could see UK universities and journals take a huge financial hit, a new report for the Publishers Association warns.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2880296 2021-02-16T11:16:38-05:00 2021-02-18T09:53:19-05:00

<p>Science and data are interwoven in many ways. The scientific method has lent a good part of its overall approach and practices to data-driven analytics, software development, and data science. Now data science and software lend some tools to scientific research.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2878764 2021-02-13T15:41:58-05:00 2021-02-17T13:18:58-05:00

<p>"Colorado State University researchers who want to make their work freely available, increase the visibility of their work, and create a global impact now have a powerful channel to do just that. Through the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries, the CSU Libraries has negotiated an <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/open-access-policies/read-and-publish-agreements/oa-agreement-carl">open access “Read and Publish” agreement</a> with Cambridge University Press...."</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2886394 2021-02-24T10:47:21-05:00 2021-02-24T10:47:21-05:00

<p>Sharing knowledge and expertise to create a healthier world BMJ is a champion of open access as a way to promote knowledge and accelerate discoveries. We place a great deal of importance on increasing the reach and use of what we publish, and we are actively reshaping the way medical research is conducted and disseminated.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2881155 2021-02-17T12:48:15-05:00 2021-02-17T12:50:01-05:00

<p>Milner Library is pleased to announce a three-year open access agreement with Cambridge University Press. The deal, known as a Read and Publish agreement, allows research published by Illinois State University corresponding authors to be made open access in Cambridge’s open access and hybrid journals, without having to pay an article processing charge (APC).  </p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2881135 2021-02-17T12:28:22-05:00 2021-02-17T12:30:00-05:00

<p>K C Gangadhar, FEB 05 2021, 01:48 ISTUPDATED: FEB 05 2021, 02:18 IST Representative image. The academic journal subscription model is pretty old and has been accepted by the academic community for decades. But, unfortunately, some publishing giants have become too greedy. Everyone wants free access to scholarly information, but no one thinks of publishing in open-access journals or adopting alternative models. They publish in commercial journals despite the hefty Article Processing Charges (APC). Ultimately, it is the knowledge creators (authors), and not librarians, who have to tame the big publishers to bring down journal subscription prices.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2872574 2021-02-04T16:24:38-05:00 2021-02-04T16:24:38-05:00

<p>ScienceFEBRUARY 4, 2021 10:18 AM AEDTShare UvA open access policy and Diamond Open Access Fund University of Amsterdam The Executive Board recently adopted the UvA Open Science programme 2020 – 2024. The programme includes an overview of new and well-established initiatives with regard to open access, research data management and FAIR data and also creates a policy framework for investments in open science at the UvA. With the adoption of the Open Science programme, an open access policy was introduced for researchers and funding became available for a Diamond Open Access Fund with effect from 1 January 2021.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2881144 2021-02-17T12:33:51-05:00 2021-02-17T12:35:05-05:00

<p>The Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), also known as the Spanish National Research Council, signs up to the Biochemical Society and Portland Press’ pilot Read &amp; Publish transformative deal. Corresponding authors at CSIC institutions will receive unlimited open access (OA) publishing across the entire journal portfolio.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2871754 2021-02-03T16:35:08-05:00 2021-02-03T16:35:08-05:00

<p>New Rochelle, NY, February 3, 2021--Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers and Genetic Engineering &amp; Biotechnology News (GEN) announce the launch of Re:GEN Open, the new multidisciplinary open access journal for scientifically rigorous research in the life and medical sciences.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2871750 2021-02-03T16:28:19-05:00 2021-02-03T16:29:52-05:00

<p>Brooklyn, NY, &amp; Oxford, U.K., February 3rd, 2021: Berghahn Journals, the social sciences publisher that flipped 13 of its anthropology journals to Open Access (OA) in 2020 by asking subscribing libraries to renew their subscriptions on a Subscribe-to-Open (S2O) basis, is pleased to announce the three-year initiative is now successfully entering its second year. Libraries still have the opportunity to join the initiative, by either subscribing to the entire collection of journals or renew existing subscriptions at the select title level.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2871736 2021-02-03T16:14:13-05:00 2022-04-13T10:42:16-04:00

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.—As part of the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA), Penn State University Libraries recently entered into two agreements that will help to expand access to scholarly content, promote open access (OA) publishing and increase visibility of Penn State research.

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2866679 2021-01-27T16:43:58-05:00 2021-01-27T16:43:58-05:00

<p>In efforts to advance our increasingly datafied and technology-driven world, we have created an unusual paradox: Knowledge is now easier than ever to be disseminated, yet disadvantaged communities are systematically denied access to it.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2866667 2021-01-27T16:38:06-05:00 2022-05-11T03:20:06-04:00

DANVERS, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, announces new functionality in RightsLink® for Scientific Communications (RLSC), its market-leading, comprehensive scholarly communications workflow solution. RLSC now can inform authors of available Open Access (OA) publication funding throughout the manuscript lifecycle, starting with submission.

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2865792 2021-01-26T14:01:11-05:00 2021-01-26T14:01:11-05:00

<p>Should academic research be available to everyone? How should such a flow of information be regulated? Why would the accessibility of information ever be controversial?</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2865791 2021-01-26T13:57:18-05:00 2021-01-26T13:57:18-05:00

<p>AMSTERDAM, Jan. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics and the Royal Danish Library have agreed on a four-year contract to support continued reading and open access (OA) publishing for Danish researchers. This is the first time the Danish consortium led by the Royal Danish Library has signed an open access transformative agreement with any publisher and this agreement complements Elsevier's transformative agreements across many European countries.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2865777 2021-01-26T13:36:29-05:00 2021-01-26T13:36:29-05:00

<p>Six members of the Virginia Research Libraries (VRL) recently completed contract negotiations with Elsevier, the largest publisher of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) scholarly journals. Through a new one-year 2021 agreement, the University of Virginia, Virginia Tech, Virginia Commonwealth University, George Mason University, Old Dominion University, William &amp; Mary, and James Madison University libraries addressed their priorities for affordability, accessibility, and equity.  </p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2861622 2021-01-20T08:59:49-05:00 2021-01-20T08:59:49-05:00

<p>Jisc and Springer Nature have extended the UK Compact agreement by including the prestigious Academic Journals (AJs) on nature.com – including some of the world’s most internationally renowned medical titles. </p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2865745 2021-01-26T13:08:13-05:00 2021-01-27T08:27:12-05:00

<p>Reading scientific papers is currently an expensive affair. Many scientific journals charge a couple of hundred dollars for a single article. Under a proposed ‘One Nation, One Subscription’ plan of India’s fifth (draft) Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Policy, the government will negotiate with journal publishers to enable access for everyone. The policy also suggests that research produced in Indian publicly funded institutions be made freely accessible to everyone, at the time of publication.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2897410 2021-03-02T16:29:40-05:00 2021-03-02T16:29:40-05:00

<p>An Academic Analytics Research Center (AARC) study has found greater rates of authorship of open access (OA) research articles among scholars at more prestigious institutions with greater access to resources and job security. "The open access publishing model is growing, and open access successfully democratizes the results of research projects, but it's clear now that some scholars are more likely to be represented in the open access literature" said AARC director and lead author of the study Anthony Olejniczak, Ph.D.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2865744 2021-01-26T13:03:39-05:00 2021-01-26T13:06:00-05:00

<p>echdirt has been following the important copyright case in India that is about how people in that country can access academic journals. Currently, many turn to "shadow libraries" like Sci-Hub and Libgen, because they cannot afford the often hefty frees that academic publishers charge to access papers. If a new "Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy" (pdf), just released as a draft by the Government of India, comes to fruition, people may not need to: The Government of India will negotiate with journal publishers for a "one nation, one subscription" policy whereby, in return for one centrally-negotiated payment, all individuals in India will have access to journal articles. This will replace individual institutional journal subscriptions.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2865743 2021-01-26T12:59:39-05:00 2021-01-26T12:59:39-05:00

<p>The American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the MIT Press recently announced that Dædalus, the Journal of the American Academy, will now be an open-access publication. The MIT Press has published Dædalus on behalf of the academy since 2003. Years of volumes and hundreds of essays previously behind a paywall have been ungated and made freely available.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2861621 2021-01-20T08:51:36-05:00 2021-01-20T08:51:36-05:00

<p>An Academic Analytics Research Center (AARC) study has found greater rates of authorship of open access (OA) research articles among scholars at more prestigious institutions with greater access to resources and job security. "The open access publishing model is growing, and open access successfully democratizes the results of research projects, but it's clear now that some scholars are more likely to be represented in the open access literature" said AARC director and lead author of the study Anthony Olejniczak, Ph.D.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2858596 2021-01-15T13:10:51-05:00 2021-07-10T09:31:10-04:00

<p>In a step towards open access, the publisher of Science will start allowing some authors publishing in its high-profile subscription journals to share their accepted manuscripts openly online under liberal terms that mean anyone could reproduce or redistribute the work.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2858595 2021-01-15T13:04:10-05:00 2021-01-16T09:01:29-05:00

<p>AAAS, which publishes the Science family of journals, announced today it will offer its authors a free way to comply with a mandate issued by some funders that publications resulting from research they fund be immediately free to read. Under the new open-access policy, authors may deposit near-final, peer-reviewed versions of papers accepted by paywalled Science titles in publicly accessible online repositories.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2857972 2021-01-14T16:14:47-05:00 2022-07-06T13:50:41-04:00

Frank Vrancken Peeters, Chief Executive Officer of leading OA publisher Springer Nature, called for greater partnership within publishing and the wider research community, pointing to the benefits such engagement has delivered over the past year during the coronavirus pandemic.

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2857969 2021-01-14T16:10:20-05:00 2021-01-14T16:10:20-05:00

<p>In an ambitious attempt to make scientific knowledge and data available to all, the government has proposed an ‘open science policy’ that will ensure that the results of, and information generated by, all publicly-funded research is freely accessible by everyone.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2857775 2021-01-14T12:32:14-05:00 2021-01-14T12:32:14-05:00

<p>Commercial publishing giant Elsevier is converting 160 subscription-based journals to fully open access models. The move comes as the European open access initiative Plan S enters a crucial new stage.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2857811 2021-01-14T13:13:13-05:00 2021-01-20T09:32:21-05:00

<p>N NOVEMBER, Springer Nature, one of the world’s largest publishers of scientific journals, made an attention-grabbing announcement: More than 30 of its most prestigious journals, including the flagship Nature, will now allow authors to pay a fee of $11,390 to make their papers freely available for anyone to read online.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2857968 2021-01-14T16:00:54-05:00 2021-01-14T16:00:54-05:00

<p>Twitter last week permanently suspended the account of Sci-Hub, the website that has posted millions of freely accessible copies of scientific articles pirated from subscription journals. Twitter said Sci-Hub had violated its policy against promoting “counterfeit goods,” according to Sci-Hub’s founder, Alexandra Elbakyan.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2857916 2021-01-14T15:00:25-05:00 2021-01-14T15:00:25-05:00

<p>Open access publishing has been on the rise in recent years, and UC Berkeley is helping lead the movement away from traditional, subscription-based publishing models.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2857915 2021-01-14T14:53:26-05:00 2022-05-11T03:20:07-04:00

Improving the Author Experience with Seamless and Simple Funding Workflows for IEEE’s Institutional Open Access Agreements

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2919303 2021-03-18T12:43:50-04:00 2021-03-18T12:43:50-04:00

<p>Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) has signed an unlimited "read-and-publish" transformative agreement with Rockefeller University Press (RUP) on behalf of the Max Planck Society. The agreement covers Open Access (OA) publishing of articles in RUP's three hybrid journals: Journal of Cell Biology (JCB), Journal of Experimental Medicine (JEM) and Journal of General Physiology (JGP). </p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2856105 2021-01-12T13:01:42-05:00 2021-01-13T08:54:03-05:00

<p>University of Cape Town (UCT) Libraries director of research and learning services Dr Reggie Raju revealed on Tuesday, the institute’s newly developed continental platform for open access publishing in Africa.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2856106 2021-01-12T13:12:49-05:00 2021-01-12T13:12:49-05:00

<p>Aligarh: The role of libraries on Open Science has been recognised and discussed at multiple fora and endorsed publicly by international organisations and stakeholders, said Dr J K Vijaya Kumar, the University Library Director of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2856065 2021-01-12T11:56:57-05:00 2021-01-12T11:56:57-05:00

<p>The <a href="https://torrentfreak.com/sci-hub-libgen-face-isp-blocking-in-india-after-publishers-file-high-court-complaint-201227/" title="https://torrentfreak.com/sci-hub-libgen-face-isp-blocking-in-india-after-publishers-file-high-court-complaint-201227/">umpteenth lawsuit by a group of publishers</a> against the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub" title="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub">Sci-Hub</a> scientific <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_library" title="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_library">shadow library</a> has been brought in India, and promises some <a href="https://torrentfreak.com/judge-sci-hub-blocking-case-important-for-science-community-representations-will-be-heard-210107/" title="https://torrentfreak.com/judge-sci-hub-blocking-case-important-for-science-community-representations-will-be-heard-210107/">interesting conclusions</a>.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2853423 2021-01-08T10:47:12-05:00 2021-01-08T10:47:12-05:00

<p>The Delhi High Court Wednesday said the copyright infringement suit filed by global publishers against open-access sites Sci-Hub and Libgen was a matter of public importance, and agreed to hear scientists and other academic groups who have sought to intervene in the matter.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2852356 2021-01-06T16:18:33-05:00 2021-01-06T16:20:00-05:00

<p>The Department of Science and Technology (DST) under the Government of India has presented the draft of new Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy (STIP) 2020. The department says that the draft policy has been prepared to bring to an effect’ profound changes’ through short-, medium-, and long-term mission modes. The draft policy also focuses on ‘promoting traditional knowledge systems, developing indigenous technologies, and encouraging grassroots innovations’ particularly in the post-COVID world.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2852820 2021-01-07T13:18:22-05:00 2021-01-07T13:18:22-05:00

<p>Plan S is starting to take hold, but the cost is merely shifting even more to the researchers.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2851419 2021-01-05T12:50:10-05:00 2021-01-28T16:08:07-05:00

<p>"<span>Consider ‘read and publish’-type transformative deals: for some the fees are simply too high – the recently announced deal between Springer Nature and the Max Planck Digital Library, offering OA in</span><span> </span><em>Nature</em><span>-branded journals for a base fee of €9,500 per article, is far beyond the reach of many institutions even in high-income countries. For others, a cap on the number of OA articles brings with it a need to either cherry-pick authors to maximise the impact and influence of the institution’s research, or create a system that requires authors to time their submissions carefully to avoid being published behind a paywall (the recent suspension of the Wiley / Jisc deal springs to mind).</span></p> <p>While not a panacea, the cost-neutral models created and piloted by members of the Society Publishers’ Coalition offer a glimpse of a more equitable option for institutions with funds to transition.</p> <p>Even these, however, will not work for everyone. Today more than 10,000 institutions in low- and low-middle income countries can access paywalled research from around 180 publishers through the Research4Life initiative, either for free or at a nominal cost, and in most if not all paywalled journals there is no fee for publication. In an entirely OA world, could and would publishers subsidise entire regions of the world in this way? Or would we find that read fees have been replaced by even higher publish fees? ...:</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2852354 2021-01-06T16:08:51-05:00 2021-01-06T16:08:51-05:00

<p>HOBOKEN, N.J. - January 5, 2021 - John Wiley &amp; Sons, Inc. (NYSE:JWA) (NYSE:JWB) today announced the acquisition of Hindawi Limited, an innovator in open access (OA) publishing and one of the world's fastest growing scientific research publishers, for a total purchase price of $298 million. The acquisition of Hindawi significantly increases Wiley's position as a global leader in research by adding quality, scale and growth to the company's open access publishing program.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2852813 2021-01-07T12:49:14-05:00 2021-01-07T12:49:14-05:00

<p>Plan S requirements go into effect this month, Science writes, noting there are many ways scientists can fulfill its open-access mandates.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2851386 2021-01-05T11:50:23-05:00 2021-01-05T11:50:23-05:00

<p><em>The four main LHC collaborations (ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb) have unanimously endorsed a new open data policy for scientific experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which was presented to the CERN Council today. The policy commits to publicly releasing so-called level 3 scientific data, the type required to make scientific studies, collected by the LHC experiments. Data will start to be released approximately five years after collection, and the aim is for the full dataset to be publicly available by the close of the experiment concerned. The policy addresses the growing movement of open science, which aims to make scientific research more reproducible, accessible, and collaborative.</em></p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2852060 2021-01-06T09:51:27-05:00 2021-01-06T09:51:27-05:00

<p>UNESCO assembly of 193 member states would be approving in its 41st meeting of General Conference in November 2021 a set of Recommendations on Open Science. The rationale for these recommendations, as agreed to by member states, is to promote science which is open to the well-being of society, locally and globally. The first draft of these Recommendations has highlighted several principles: science as public good, open access to data and scientific knowledge, open access to practitioners and principles of inclusion, equity and diversity.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2851388 2021-01-05T11:55:49-05:00 2021-01-05T11:55:49-05:00

<p>In 2018, a group of mostly European funders sent shock waves through the world of scientific publishing by proposing an unprecedented rule: The scientists they funded would be required to make journal articles developed with their support immediately free to read when published.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2852242 2021-01-06T13:15:41-05:00 2021-01-07T09:15:55-05:00

<p>In 2018, a group of mostly European funders sent shock waves through the world of scientific publishing by proposing an unprecedented rule: The scientists they funded would be required to make journal articles developed with their support immediately free to read when published.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2853426 2021-01-08T10:56:05-05:00 2021-01-08T10:56:05-05:00

<p>This report explains the origins of the open access movement, gives a timeline for its development, but most importantly, the report quantifies open access book publishing as a market segment. This research was conducted in conjunction with a larger study of the overall market for scholarly and professional publishing.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2840630 2020-12-18T12:58:13-05:00 2020-12-18T13:00:31-05:00

<p>We are in the midst of a once-in-a-generation opportunity to remake our approach to science. This moment, in all its difficult uncertainty—COVID-19, economic turmoil and the crescendo of a long overdue national discussion about racial justice—demonstrates why universities, funders and other research stakeholders should move decisively to embrace open science. By adopting what are called “open science” practices, we can align the incentive structures of research production and consumption with our values, and catalyze the scientific progress our society so desperately needs.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2851417 2021-01-05T12:44:13-05:00 2021-01-05T12:44:13-05:00

<p>Two newly announced options for authors bring the publications into compliance with Europe’s Plan S initiative, but the fees exceed those of other open-access journals.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2840627 2020-12-18T11:43:43-05:00 2020-12-18T11:43:43-05:00

<p>In May 2020, the National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and OUP signed the first Read and Publish (R&amp;P) agreement in Mainland China. R&amp;P agreements allow researchers from participating institutions to read high quality, high impact research, as well as publish accepted articles through the OA model without paying an open access charge individually. These fair and equitable agreements further open access publishing in a sustainable way and help make research output available to everyone around the world.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2852041 2021-01-06T09:04:40-05:00 2021-01-06T09:05:50-05:00

<p>SEOUL, Dec. 18, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- South Korea's National Research Council of Science &amp; Technology (NST) and Elsevier, a global research publishing and information analytics provider, today announced a new three-year agreement that will provide South Korean researchers access to global academic research and offer them Open Access (OA) publishing options from January 1, 2021.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2840433 2020-12-18T07:38:07-05:00 2020-12-18T07:38:07-05:00

<p>LONDON, Dec. 18, 2020  /PRNewswire/ -- Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, today announced that the Cell Press portfolio of journals will be expanding open access publishing options for authors from January 1, 2021.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2839863 2020-12-17T12:53:27-05:00 2022-04-04T06:19:04-04:00

Today sees the launch of – and Frontiers’ commitment to – the Initiative for Open Abstracts (I40A). The cross-publisher project, officially launched at this year’s Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association conference, advocates for the unrestricted availability of abstracts throughout scholarly communications.  I4OA’s overarching aim is to promote the discovery of, and large-scale access to, critical research.

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2840592 2020-12-18T09:58:40-05:00 2022-04-04T06:12:10-04:00

The university library has decided to financially support three open infrastructures for a period of three years. Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ external link) Sherpa Romeo external link(an overview of publishers and journals' open access policies) Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB external link) of the OAPEN external linkFoundation (Open Access Publishing in European Networks)

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2839708 2020-12-17T07:42:14-05:00 2022-04-04T06:14:01-04:00

A group of 16 major physics societies around the world have come together to support open-access publishing and welcome the increased “policy momentum” towards it. Yet in a joint statement, the societies urge policy makers to preserve the “diversity, quality and financial sustainability” of peer-reviewed publishing. They also warn that certain policies, such as the proposed cOAlition S “rights retention strategy”, could “undermine the viability of high-quality hybrid journals”.

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2856173 2021-01-12T14:42:16-05:00 2021-01-13T08:45:34-05:00

<p>The first National Open Access Framework in Italy for Biomedical Institutions has today been signed by the Italian consortium of Biomedical Research Libraries - Bibliosan - and the leading open access publisher, Frontiers.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2839707 2020-12-17T07:23:54-05:00 2020-12-17T07:23:54-05:00

<p>The first National Open Access Framework in Italy for Biomedical Institutions has today been signed by the Italian consortium of Biomedical Research Libraries - Bibliosan - and the leading open access publisher, Frontiers.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2852854 2021-01-07T13:59:37-05:00 2021-01-07T13:59:37-05:00

<p>15 December 2020—A group of 16 international physics organizations today issued a joint statement underscoring the discipline’s historical support for open access (OA) to physics research, and endorsing “any and all OA models that can provide financially sustainable support for author choice and the quality of peer review and publication upon which excellent physics research relies.”</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2852833 2021-01-07T13:45:30-05:00 2021-01-07T13:45:30-05:00

<p>Major physics societies, which support physical science researchers with the publication of more than 75,000 peer-reviewed journal articles each year, have joined forces to show their commitment to open access (OA) for physics research.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2839105 2020-12-16T11:09:32-05:00 2022-04-04T06:12:10-04:00

As part of the 2020 Charleston Conference we participated in a, virtual, Lively Discussion organised by SCOSS and moderated by Vanessa Proudman (SCOSS). During this session, Eelco Ferwerda (DOAB / OAPEN) together with Lars Bjørnshauge (DOAJ), Kevin Stranack (PKP) and Silvio Peroni (OpenCitations) shared their reports from the field forming the basis for an exciting conversation around the crowd-funding of Open Science and Open Access infrastructure.

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2839103 2020-12-16T11:04:23-05:00 2020-12-16T11:04:23-05:00

<p>The American Astronomical Society (AAS) and 15 other major physics-related professional societies, which together support researchers with the publication of more than 75,000 peer-reviewed journal articles each year, have joined forces to show their commitment to open access (OA) for physics research. </p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2838279 2020-12-15T09:41:44-05:00 2020-12-15T09:41:44-05:00

<p>We as physics societies exist to ensure that physics delivers on its exceptional potential to benefit society. We recognise the important role of universal access to knowledge in achieving this goal and are therefore committed to making open access (OA) to physics research a reality. We welcome the increased policy momentum towards open science publishing but urge all stakeholders to ensure that the routes by which we achieve OA preserve the diversity, quality and financial sustainability of the peer-reviewed publishing upon which our research community depends.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2838277 2020-12-15T09:38:16-05:00 2020-12-15T09:38:16-05:00

<p>In a joint statement 'Achieving greater open access in physics', the societies detail how they have long embraced open science and OA to research results. Their proactive engagement, such as the launch of high-quality OA journals, switching hybrid journals to full OA and establishing transformative agreements, has contributed to an average annual growth in OA physics articles of more than 25%, compared with an overall average annual growth in physics articles of around 2%.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2852243 2021-01-06T13:22:58-05:00 2021-01-06T13:22:58-05:00

<p>ROCKVILLE, Md., Dec. 14, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The coronavirus pandemic has thrust the idea of open access to research into the forefront, bringing more focus to open access books as researchers and librarians look for ways to push their work forward amid lockdowns and restrictions.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2838289 2020-12-15T10:29:48-05:00 2020-12-15T10:31:29-05:00

<p>The International Cartilage Regeneration &amp; Joint Preservation Society, the main forum for international collaboration in cartilaginous tissue research and joint preservation, and Elsevier, a global research publishing and information analytics provider, today announced the launch of a new OPEN ACCESS journal, “The Journal of Cartilage &amp; Joint Preservation – JCJP.”</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2838283 2020-12-15T10:16:55-05:00 2020-12-15T10:16:55-05:00

<p>The coronavirus pandemic has thrust the idea of open access to research into the forefront, bringing more focus to open access books as researchers and librarians look for ways to push their work forward amid lockdowns and restrictions.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2840591 2020-12-18T09:50:38-05:00 2020-12-18T09:50:38-05:00

<p>APS has joined 15 other international physics organizations in a call for universal access to knowledge and a commitment to sustainable open access. The statement, titled "Achieving Open Access in Physics," reaffirms the innovative ways that the physics community has long supported open access (OA) through its preprint server (arXiv.org) and fully OA journals.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2838302 2020-12-15T10:36:48-05:00 2020-12-15T10:36:48-05:00

<p>Today the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) announced that Hepatology Communications – AASLD’s free, open-access journal – has been accepted into Clarivate’s Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) and Journal Citation Reports – one of the leading citation indexes for journals of science and technology. The journal will now be eligible for an Impact Factor (IF) evaluation, which measures the frequency that a journal is cited and contributes to its reputation in the scientific community. Hepatology Communications will receive its first Impact Factor evaluation in the summer of 2021.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2835514 2020-12-11T09:32:14-05:00 2020-12-11T09:32:14-05:00

<p>The four main LHC collaborations (ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb) have unanimously endorsed a new open data policy for scientific experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which was presented to the CERN Council today. The policy commits to publicly releasing so-called level 3 scientific data, the type required to make scientific studies, collected by the LHC experiments. Data will start to be released approximately five years after collection, and the aim is for the full dataset to be publicly available by the close of the experiment concerned. The policy addresses the growing movement of open science, which aims to make scientific research more reproducible, accessible, and collaborative.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2835786 2020-12-11T15:01:07-05:00 2020-12-12T08:55:54-05:00

<p>Open Research and Open Science play a vital role in science communications. The benefits are clear: improved effectiveness and productivity of research communications, better and more accurate reproducibility and validation of research results, facilitation for reuse and innovation of knowledge, and heightened awareness for the general public.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2839862 2020-12-17T12:48:02-05:00 2020-12-18T08:23:36-05:00

<p>Emerald Publishing and Jisc announce a new agreement that will help authors in humanities and social sciences auto-deposit green open access papers in institutional repositories.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2835517 2020-12-11T09:36:04-05:00 2020-12-11T09:41:05-05:00

<p>Cambridge University Press is launching a new, Open Access journal - <em>Environmental Data Science</em> - dedicated to the potential of artificial intelligence and data science to enhance our understanding of the environment, and to address climate change.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2835511 2020-12-11T09:26:10-05:00 2020-12-11T09:26:10-05:00

<p>Researchers and scholars want publishers to increase the volume of available free-access journals to boost research and knowledge production during the COVID-19 pandemic. This, they say, will particularly benefit poor institutions and budding scientists from low-income countries.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2833662 2020-12-09T09:48:20-05:00 2020-12-09T09:48:20-05:00

<p>Jisc is launching a new multi-content repository for storing research data and articles that will make it easier for university staff to manage the administration around open access publishing.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2833028 2020-12-08T13:08:29-05:00 2020-12-08T13:08:29-05:00

<p>Representing a diverse community of organisations engaged in open scholarship, OASPA works to encourage and enable open access as the predominant model of communication for scholarly outputs.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2832967 2020-12-08T12:25:33-05:00 2021-01-04T10:20:37-05:00

<p>"In the past decade the scientific community has faced a serious threat to its integrity and credibility with the rise of predatory journals. These journals manipulate and exploit the open access publishing model but omit the quality checks and editorial services that are routinely provided by legitimate journals, such as peer review, plagiarism detection, and verification of ethical approval of experiments. Although the descriptor “predatory” has been criticised for grossly conflating poor quality with misconduct and for simplistically classifying the scholarly publishing environment into bad and good (predatory or not),1 the term is now widely accepted to describe the phenomenon....</p> <p>US government agencies have been indirectly paying through their grants in excess of $3m to cover APCs for one single predatory publisher, OMICS, which gains access to PMC because federal funds are being used to pay for publication in their journals. Our estimate of $3.2m was based on a fraction of articles and journals from OMICS so might be an underestimate of the true cost. We only examined a relatively small number of the journals published by OMICS that entered PMC due to one or more individual articles being deposited by NIH-funded authors (234 of the 700+ journals in total). Similarly, we did not sample other predatory publishers. Moreover, Moher and colleagues<a href="https://www-bmj-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/content/371/bmj.m4265#ref-8">8</a> extrapolated at least 18 000 funded biomedical research studies published in poorly indexed, scientifically questionable journals, which would lead to a considerable increase of our $3m estimate. Predatory journals charge quite different APCs, preventing reliable estimates of the waste of patients’ and researchers’ time, animals, and (mostly public) money...."</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2834059 2020-12-09T16:28:20-05:00 2020-12-09T16:28:20-05:00

<p>"The publishers of Nature announced that they will charge authors €9,500 ($11,500) to publish a paper as open access, meaning readers can get the paper without a subscription. They called this, without a trace of irony, their “gold open access option.”</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2835523 2020-12-11T10:02:18-05:00 2020-12-11T10:02:18-05:00

<p>The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated the movement towards open research and open access publishing in scholarly journals, but after shrinking in the pre-COVID-19 period, open access books are not poised to capitalize—this according to the latest report from Simba Information, a leader in media intelligence and analysis.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2832958 2020-12-08T12:07:55-05:00 2020-12-09T09:25:54-05:00

<p> After 119 years of continuous print publication, the American Osteopathic Association will transition its research journal to an all-digital, open access journal. Rebranded as Journal of Osteopathic Medicine (JOM), the scientific publication will be helmed by editor-in-chief Ross Zafonte, DO, chairman of the department of physical medicine and rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2835484 2020-12-11T09:20:11-05:00 2020-12-11T09:22:55-05:00

<p>As JWAS moves into its 52nd year of publication, JWAS 52 (1) will be the first fully Open Access issue of the journal. This is a timely and significant change, which was deliberated over a long period by our editorial team together with the WAS Board and the publishing house Wiley Blackwell. Moving to fully Open Access is extremely exciting and I am convinced that this change aligns the journal to future developments in publication and funding of scientific research worldwide, especially in aquaculture research.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2832964 2020-12-08T12:19:22-05:00 2020-12-08T12:19:22-05:00

<p>BC Partners, a large London-based private equity firm, has identified an unusual buyer for one of its largest portfolio companies: itself.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2834060 2020-12-09T16:38:28-05:00 2020-12-09T16:40:11-05:00

<p>Beginning next January, the FDI World Dental Federation’s official scientific journal, the International Dental Journal, which is marking 70 years of continuous publication this year, will change to a gold open access journal with no subscription charges.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2829461 2020-12-03T14:13:03-05:00 2020-12-04T08:46:44-05:00

<p>ABSTRACT I explained how publishing wildlife research in open access (OA) journals like PLOS ONE makes wildlife science less reliable. Subsequently, several researchers rejected my explanation, opining that OA journals have top publishing standards and are crucial for the future of wildlife science because researchers in developing countries can access them for free, better enabling them to contribute. Consequently, some opined that research societies should consider remaking their society journals into OA journals, in particular the Journal of Wildlife Management (JWM) sponsored by The Wildlife Society (TWS) becoming an OA journal. In this, my response to them, I show that their opinions are misguided and explain 1) how OA journals unquestionably have inferior publishing standards; 2) why OA is not crucial to the future of wildlife science; 3) why wildlife science's investing its limited resources in certain areas other than OA publishing is crucial to its future; 4) why changing JWM into an OA journal would quite possibly result in losing both TWS and JWM as we know them, leaving us with much less effective replacements; 5) how universities push for open access not because OA leads to better science (it does not) but because OA saves university libraries money, serves egalitarian attitudes among faculty and students, and provides graduate students with the quickest and easiest way of getting their articles into print; and 6) how the goal of growing science in developing countries requires growing the countries’ economies as prerequisite to growing their science, irrespective of the availability of OA articles. As well, these ideas hold beyond wildlife science, including throughout the natural resources and environmental sciences.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2832955 2020-12-08T12:01:50-05:00 2020-12-08T12:02:41-05:00

<p>On the occasion of the International Open Access Week 2020 (October 19 – 25, 2020) Thomas Hartmann held an online workshop on the topic of author‘s rights for open access on October 20, 2020. Upon invitation by Hamburg Open Science he explained the copyright and contract law framework conditions for different ways of publication. Scientific authors and editors received recommendations and had an opportunity to discuss key issues to be considered for open access.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2832953 2020-12-08T11:56:24-05:00 2020-12-08T11:56:24-05:00

<p>A new effort of preserving the history of slavery in America is underway in the form of an online database, that invites Black Americans and researchers to submit their own family histories in order to reconstruct narratives that have been lost over time.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2839788 2020-12-17T11:02:15-05:00 2020-12-17T11:02:15-05:00

<p>EDP Sciences and the Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles (SMAI) are delighted to learn that SMAI’s application for funding from the Fonds national pour la science ouverte (FNSO) has been successful. SMAI and EDP Sciences can therefore press ahead with plans to transition the maths journals1 they publish in partnership to open access under the Subscribe to Open model with the necessary financial support to give this initiative the best possible chance of success.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2838284 2020-12-15T10:18:53-05:00 2020-12-15T10:18:53-05:00

<p>This report explains the origins of the open access movement, gives a timeline for its development, but most importantly, Simba Information quantifies open access book publishing as a market segment. Simba used the information it gathered through primary and secondary research to develop a financial outlook for open access book publishing with market projections through 2024. This research was conducted in conjunction with a larger study of the overall market for scholarly and professional publishing.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2828618 2020-12-02T13:59:00-05:00 2020-12-02T14:00:14-05:00

<p>EU support for open access, what it means, how its integrated into the funding programmes, advice for projects and working with EU countries. </p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2828545 2020-12-02T12:47:14-05:00 2020-12-02T12:47:14-05:00

<p>Berghahn Books supports practical open access policies that help make scholarship available to a broader audience in a sustainable way.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2828445 2020-12-02T10:40:51-05:00 2020-12-02T10:44:03-05:00

<p>Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology &amp; Biological Psychiatry is an international and multidisciplinary journal which aims to ensure the rapid publication of authoritative reviews and research papers dealing with experimental and clinical aspects of neuro-psychopharmacology and biological psychiatry. </p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2839717 2020-12-17T08:55:23-05:00 2020-12-17T08:55:23-05:00

<p>In early 2021 the European Commission will launch their Open Research Europe platform: An Open Access publishing platform offering fast publication and open peer-review for research conducted by Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe beneficiaries.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2828050 2020-12-01T16:24:31-05:00 2020-12-02T08:40:46-05:00

<p>"<span>Open access has turned out to be a misnomer. Of course, free access to research findings is good for science and society. However, open access is clearly not freely open to the scholars who are </span><a href="http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/s/journal-information#loc-publication-fees">required to pay exorbitant fees</a><span> to publish their results, often out of their own pockets. Graduate students who wish to publish two open-access articles a year in the journals of their choice might need to use more than a quarter of their annual income to do so, if they don’t have large grants to cover the fees. One journal that is exclusively open access required graduate students to </span><a href="http://www.lifesci.sussex.ac.uk/home/Adam_Eyre-Walker/Website/Blog/Entries/2015/1/5_Public_library_of_Science_(plos)_fee_waivers.html">provide copies</a><span> of personal </span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/2sekp6/science_ama_series_i_am_michael_eisen_professor/cnowde4/">bank statements</a><span> in order to be considered for a fee reduction. That same journal also has denied fee reductions to students who don’t have external funding and who earn less than $20,000 a year...."</span></p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2827852 2020-12-01T13:28:29-05:00 2020-12-01T13:28:29-05:00

<p>Research Councils UK, Wellcome Trust and partners of the Charity Open Access Fund all require journal articles that result from their funded research to be made open access. The Higher Education Funding Bodies of the UK also require that journal articles meet accessibility requirements in order to be eligible for submission to the Research Excellence Framework (REF).</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2827790 2020-12-01T11:13:43-05:00 2020-12-01T11:57:08-05:00

<p>Colleges and universities are better at moving ideas and inventions outside of the institution than they are at achieving change within. One way to accomplish the latter is to innovate research practices by aligning information technology with open science.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2827789 2020-12-01T10:55:16-05:00 2020-12-01T10:55:16-05:00

<p>Last week, Nature journals unveiled their “landmark” open-access option. Nature journals will charge authors, starting in January 2021, up to €9,500 (nearly US $11,400) to make research papers free to read, as an alternative to subscription-only publishing. Scientists from around the world received this news with outrage and disappointment on social media.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2827788 2020-12-01T10:53:11-05:00 2020-12-01T10:53:11-05:00

<p>On 24 November, Twitter exploded with outrage at the announcement that the publisher Springer Nature plans to introduce an open access (OA) option for its Nature research journals, with an article processing charge (APC) of a whopping €9,500 (£8,290 or $11,390).</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2827763 2020-12-01T10:46:58-05:00 2020-12-01T10:50:40-05:00

<p>Open research, also known as open science, is a set of principles and practices whose aim is to make the outputs and process of research freely accessible and usable to promote greater public access.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2827747 2020-12-01T10:34:35-05:00 2020-12-01T10:35:00-05:00

<p>Included in PubMedCentral and indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), this journal publishes high-quality dental research in the areas of oral biomaterials science. The scope of the journal includes basic and clinical aspects of oral biomaterials science in dentistry.   </p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2827746 2020-12-01T10:29:29-05:00 2020-12-01T10:29:29-05:00

<p>Making scientific publications available free of charge and permanently on the Internet, increasing visibility and citation frequency while safeguarding copyrights – this is the goal of Open Access. </p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2827727 2020-12-01T10:16:43-05:00 2020-12-01T10:16:43-05:00

<p>OP Publishing (IOPP) has launched a new, multidisciplinary, open access (OA) journal devoted to the design, development and application of artificial neural networks and brain-inspired systems towards advancing scientific discovery and realising emerging new computing technologies.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2827056 2020-11-30T12:35:25-05:00 2020-11-30T12:37:13-05:00

<p>The Journal of Clinical Pharmacology (JCP) is a Human Pharmacology journal designed to provide physicians, pharmacists, research scientists, regulatory scientists, drug developers and academic colleagues a forum to present research in all aspects of Clinical Pharmacology. This includes original research in pharmacokinetics, pharmacogenetics/pharmacogenomics, pharmacometrics, physiologic based pharmacokinetic modeling, drug interactions, therapeutic drug monitoring, regulatory sciences (including unique methods of data analysis), special population studies, drug development, pharmacovigilance, womens’ health, pediatric pharmacology, and pharmacodynamics. Additionally, JCP publishes review articles, commentaries and educational manuscripts.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2833219 2020-12-08T16:28:02-05:00 2020-12-08T16:28:02-05:00

<p>South African researchers could be priced out of the mainstream of global scholarship under new, expensive plans for open access publishing being considered by the government in Pretoria.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2825004 2020-11-27T08:18:26-05:00 2022-04-04T06:14:02-04:00

With nearly 1.8 million articles in its collection, arXiv relies on a team of 185 volunteer moderators, supported by a small team of staff, to screen submitted papers.

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2839370 2020-12-16T16:42:08-05:00 2020-12-16T16:42:08-05:00

<p>Following a recent integration with the novel, social network-style research discovery app Researcher, the scholarly publishing platform ARPHA has taken yet another step to ensure scholarly publications from across its open-access, peer-reviewed journal portfolio are as easy to find and read as possible. Now, research papers published in all Pensoft's, as well as all other journals hosted on ARPHA, can reach the 1.8 million current users of Researcher directly on their screens.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2824410 2020-11-26T10:10:34-05:00 2020-11-26T10:12:21-05:00

<p>Open access (OA) publications play an important role for academia, policy-makers, and practitioners. Universities and research institutions set up OA policies and provide authors different types of support for engaging in OA activities. This paper presents a case study on OA publishing in a scholarly community, drawing on qualitative and quantitative data gained from workshops and a survey.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2839718 2020-12-17T08:58:12-05:00 2020-12-17T09:01:03-05:00

<p>In early 2021 the European Commission will launch their Open Research Europe platform: An Open Access publishing platform offering fast publication and open peer-review for research conducted by Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe beneficiaries.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2823574 2020-11-25T10:22:37-05:00 2021-02-17T17:14:01-05:00

<p>"Zenodo code is itself open source, and is built on the foundation of the <a href="https://inveniosoftware.org/">Invenio</a> digital library which is also open source. The work-in-progress, open issues, and roadmap are shared openly in <a href="https://github.com/zenodo/zenodo">GitHub</a>, and contributions to any aspect are welcomed from anyone.</p> <p>All meta data is openly available under CC0 licence, and all open content is openly accessible through open APIs.</p> <p>Open to all suggestions for new features, via GitHub, and especially open to all contributions of code via pull requests!..."</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2823928 2020-11-25T16:33:01-05:00 2020-11-25T16:35:31-05:00

<p>The Internet has fundamentally changed the way we create, exchange and interact with knowledge. We have moved beyond a world where knowledge was accessible by only the privileged few and in “read-only” formats that inhibited collaboration and optimization. Today, we have the unprecedented ability to use, adapt, and build on knowledge in real time to solve problems and make new discoveries.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2823833 2020-11-25T15:08:55-05:00 2020-11-25T15:09:39-05:00

<p>Many authors in today’s publishing environment want to make their research freely available to all reader communities. To help authors gain maximum exposure for their groundbreaking research, IEEE recently announced the launch of even more open access options to meet the needs of our authors throughout their careers.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2823807 2020-11-25T14:22:26-05:00 2020-11-25T14:22:26-05:00

<p>Indiana University Press celebrated its 70th anniversary earlier this year, but it's the one giving a gift. The academic publisher used a grant to digitize 163 out-of-print books it previously published, and has made them available for students, faculty and staff.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2823795 2020-11-25T14:13:05-05:00 2020-11-25T14:13:05-05:00

<p>BSPS Open aims to publish “landmark, cutting edge works that represent the full breadth and diversity of the philosophy of science.” The monographs it publishes will be “beautiful, freely downloadable” files with print-on-demand versions available for purchase. It will be a so-called “platinum” open access service, in that it charges fees to neither readers nor authors. It will publish works “on the basis of merit alone, and not on an author’s ability to pay a fee.”</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2823779 2020-11-25T14:07:51-05:00 2020-11-25T14:09:51-05:00

<p>BMJ is a champion of open access as a way to promote knowledge and accelerate discoveries. We place a great deal of importance on increasing the reach and use of what we publish, and we are actively reshaping the way medical research is conducted and disseminated.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2823763 2020-11-25T14:00:12-05:00 2020-11-25T14:00:12-05:00

<p>Academics will soon be able to make articles freely available in Nature-branded journals for €9,500—with a discounted option available under a pilot program that provides review, but no guarantee of acceptance.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2823752 2020-11-25T13:50:37-05:00 2020-11-25T13:50:37-05:00

<p>The publisher Springer Nature has shared its gold open-access (OA) options for Nature journals that will be introduced from January 2021.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2823750 2020-11-25T13:48:18-05:00 2020-11-25T13:48:18-05:00

<p>IOP Publishing (IOPP) is launching a suite of new open access (OA) environmental journals, marking the creation of the Environmental Research series.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2823745 2020-11-25T13:24:32-05:00 2020-11-25T13:24:32-05:00

<p>An open access, rapid peer-review journal publishing high quality research on the design, fabrication, properties and applications of all classes of materials.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2823744 2020-11-25T13:22:53-05:00 2020-11-25T13:22:53-05:00

<p>Under the three year ‘read and publish’ agreement, authors affiliated with the consortium’s member institutions can publish open access in 42 IOPP journals with no article publication charges for qualifying articles at the point of publication.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2823743 2020-11-25T13:15:26-05:00 2020-11-25T13:18:14-05:00

<p>We are a group of publications including iMedPub LTD and Conference Series LLC LTD. We Organize 3000+ <a href="https://www.omicsonline.org/international-scientific-conferences/">Conferences</a> across USA, Europe &amp; Asia with support from 1000 more scientific <a href="https://www.omicsonline.org/international-societies-world-fedarations-scientific-associations.php">societies</a> and Publishes 700+ <a href="https://www.omicsonline.org/open-access-journals-list.php">Open Access Journals</a> which contains over 50000 eminent personalities, reputed scientists as editorial board members.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2823691 2020-11-25T12:49:36-05:00 2020-11-25T12:50:12-05:00

<p>What is the green and gold division all about? Initially, the idea to match different types of openness with various colours was introduced by the <a href="http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/">Sherpa/Romeo database</a>, which is a very useful tool in determining the open access policy of each journal. </p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2823686 2020-11-25T12:29:20-05:00 2020-11-25T12:30:32-05:00

<p>The Canadian Journal of Disability Studies publishes peer-reviewed original articles that advance research in the multidisciplinary, international field of disability studies. The journal embraces a wide range of methodologies and perspectives, values collaborative and cross-disciplinary work, community partnership, and creative approaches to scholarship. Research in the Canadian Journal of Disability Studies will be of interest to scholars and students from across all academic disciplines, as well as anyone involved in disability arts, advocacy, community organization or policy.  The journal foregrounds a critical disability studies perspective, committed to disability rights.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2823685 2020-11-25T12:28:25-05:00 2020-11-25T12:28:25-05:00

<p>The Canadian Journal of Disability Studies publishes peer-reviewed original articles that advance research in the multidisciplinary, international field of disability studies. The journal embraces a wide range of methodologies and perspectives, values collaborative and cross-disciplinary work, community partnership, and creative approaches to scholarship. Research in the Canadian Journal of Disability Studies will be of interest to scholars and students from across all academic disciplines, as well as anyone involved in disability arts, advocacy, community organization or policy.  The journal foregrounds a critical disability studies perspective, committed to disability rights.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2832965 2020-12-08T12:22:21-05:00 2020-12-08T12:22:21-05:00

<p>Publisher Springer Nature has announced an open access option for researchers wishing to have their papers published as Gold OA when submitting to Nature and 32 of the Nature primary research journals published by the company. Starting in January, Springer Nature will allow such researchers to pay €9,500 for the right to have their papers offered through open access.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2823630 2020-11-25T11:47:07-05:00 2020-11-25T12:03:57-05:00

<p>Research In Developmental Disabilities is an international journal aimed at publishing original research of an interdisciplinary nature that has a direct bearing on the understanding or remediation of problems associated with developmental disabilities.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2823649 2020-11-25T12:08:58-05:00 2020-11-27T10:05:26-05:00

<p>Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research is an international peer-reviewed journal aiming to disseminate innovative, high quality, social research on disability, which enables critical reflection on the position of people with disabilities in different societal contexts.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2823694 2020-11-25T12:55:50-05:00 2020-11-27T09:59:10-05:00

<p>A pioneer in scholarly open access publishing, MDPI has supported academic communities since 1996. Based in Basel, Switzerland, MDPI has the mission to foster open scientific exchange in all forms, across all disciplines. Our 287 diverse, peer-reviewed, open access journals are supported by more than 67,200 academic editors. We serve scholars from around the world to ensure the latest research is freely available and all content is distributed under a <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY)</a>.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2823544 2020-11-25T09:54:33-05:00 2020-11-25T09:58:08-05:00

<p>The COVID-19 outbreak has made funders, researchers and publishers agree to have research publications, as well as other research outputs, such as data, become openly available.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2823808 2020-11-25T14:28:05-05:00 2020-11-27T09:48:49-05:00

<p>The Japan Alliance of University Library Consortia for E-Resources (JUSTICE) and Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, have successfully reached agreement on a new three-year proposal for subscription publishing with measures to support Japan's open access (OA) goals, beginning January 1, 2021.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2823542 2020-11-25T09:47:08-05:00 2020-11-25T09:48:14-05:00

<p>Open Research Europe - The European Commission open access publishing platform</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2823538 2020-11-25T09:38:14-05:00 2020-11-25T09:38:14-05:00

<p>In only a matter of months, the coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) has spread around the world. The global impact of the disease has caused significant and repeated calls for quick action towards new medicines and vaccines. In response, researchers have adopted open science methods to begin to combat this disease via global collaborative efforts.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2823534 2020-11-25T09:30:49-05:00 2020-11-25T09:31:24-05:00

<p>Responses collected from around 25,000 academics reveal that 20 percent couldn’t do their work at all in the spring, but most had found ways to keep their research going.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2823518 2020-11-25T09:22:43-05:00 2020-11-25T09:22:43-05:00

<p>In the current article, we tested our hypothesis by which high-impact journals tend to have higher Article Processing Charges (APCs) by comparing journal IF metrics with the OA publishing fees they charge. Our study engaged with both journals in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields and the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) and included Hybrid, Diamond and No OA journals.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2823845 2020-11-25T15:16:03-05:00 2020-11-27T08:57:38-05:00

<p>Hinari Access to Research for Health Programme provides free or very low cost online access to the major journals in biomedical and related social sciences to local, not-for-profit institutions in developing countries.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2823929 2020-11-25T16:40:12-05:00 2020-11-27T08:51:14-05:00

<p>Nurse Education Today is the leading international journal providing a forum for the publication of high quality original research, review and debate in the discussion of nursing, midwifery and interprofessional health care education, publishing papers which contribute to the advancement of educational...</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2823931 2020-11-25T16:48:27-05:00 2020-11-27T08:49:14-05:00

<p>Paywall: The Business of Scholarship is a documentary which focuses on the need for open access to research and science. The film questions the rationale behind the $25.2 billion a year that flows into for-profit academic publishers, examines the 35-40% profit margin associated with the top academic publisher, Elsevier, and looks at how that profit margin is often greater than some of the most profitable tech companies such as Apple, Facebook, and Google. </p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2822976 2020-11-24T16:50:00-05:00 2020-11-24T16:50:00-05:00

<p>American Academy of Ophthalmology to Launch its First Open Access Journal in Early 2021</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2822936 2020-11-24T16:13:54-05:00 2020-11-24T16:19:32-05:00

<p>SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) works to enable the open sharing of research outputs and educational materials in order to democratize access to knowledge, accelerate discovery, and increase the return on our investment in research and education. As a catalyst for action, SPARC focuses on collaborating with other stakeholders—including authors, publishers, libraries, students, funders, policymakers and the public—to build on the opportunities created by the Internet, promoting changes to both infrastructure and culture needed to make open the default for research and education.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2822937 2020-11-24T16:17:31-05:00 2020-11-24T16:18:37-05:00

<p>SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) works to enable the open sharing of research outputs and educational materials in order to democratize access to knowledge, accelerate discovery, and increase the return on our investment in research and education. As a catalyst for action, SPARC focuses on collaborating with other stakeholders—including authors, publishers, libraries, students, funders, policymakers and the public—to build on the opportunities created by the Internet, promoting changes to both infrastructure and culture needed to make open the default for research and education.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2822884 2020-11-24T14:43:47-05:00 2020-11-24T16:02:00-05:00

<p>Open access is an increasingly popular way to publish academic and scientific research. As of 2019, 8.5 million articles have been published open access in peer-reviewed journals, according to data from Scopus and ImpactStory</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2822859 2020-11-24T14:33:17-05:00 2020-11-24T14:36:23-05:00

<p>The importance of higher education for the growth and development of society is generally accepted. But openness and access to education for all is essential to maximise its benefits. Leaders in higher education must be ready to examine what it will take to achieve this.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2822721 2020-11-24T11:59:41-05:00 2020-11-24T12:24:44-05:00

<p>The Japan Alliance of University Library Consortia for E-Resources (JUSTICE) and Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, have successfully reached agreement on a new three-year proposal for subscription publishing with measures to support Japan's open access (OA) goals, beginning January 1, 2021.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2822652 2020-11-24T10:43:40-05:00 2020-11-24T12:00:28-05:00

<p>Nature sets article processing charge at the equivalent of $11,250 for researchers selecting open-access publishing.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2822719 2020-11-24T11:49:53-05:00 2020-11-24T11:55:03-05:00

<p>is an international, peer-reviewed, open access, general medical journal that publishes research on clinical care, innovation in health care, health policy, and global health across all health disciplines and countries for clinicians, investigators, and policy makers. <em>JAMA Network Open</em> is a member of the JAMA Network, a consortium of peer-reviewed, general medical and specialty publications.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2839111 2020-12-16T11:33:07-05:00 2020-12-16T11:33:07-05:00

<p>In October, the head of the [World Health Organization], Tedros Ghebreyesus Adhanom, alongside human rights chief Michelle Bachelet, and Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of science, culture and education agency UNESCO, issued a call for “Open Science”, describing it as a “fundamental matter of human rights”, and arguing for cutting-edge technologies and discoveries to be available for those who need them most.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2822667 2020-11-24T10:51:01-05:00 2020-11-24T10:56:23-05:00

<p>The elite Nature family of journals, including the flagship Nature, today announced it is taking the plunge into open access in scientific publishing. The journals will become among the first highly selective titles to allow any author to pay a publishing fee to make articles immediately free to read when published. Such open-access arrangements are being required by some European funders and foundations that seek to eliminate subscription paywalls in order to speed the flow of scientific information.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2822939 2020-11-24T16:24:44-05:00 2020-11-25T09:29:57-05:00

<p>PLOS is a nonprofit, Open Access publisher empowering researchers to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in research communication.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2822961 2020-11-24T16:46:11-05:00 2020-11-25T09:26:46-05:00

<h3>"The monthly journal, animal, is to enter into a new publishing agreement with Elsevier. As part of this deal, the publication will move to Gold Open Access."</h3>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2822999 2020-11-24T16:53:51-05:00 2020-11-25T09:18:17-05:00

<p>So far, yet so near! It is easy to confuse the two for one and understandably so, what with media using one as a substitute for the other. To fully understand the underlying differences of the two is to fully acknowledge the importance and implications it manifests in the research world.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2823000 2020-11-24T16:56:29-05:00 2020-11-25T09:16:15-05:00

<p>Coronavirus and Ebola: could open access medical research find a cure?</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2821277 2020-11-22T13:59:15-05:00 2020-11-22T14:03:38-05:00

<p>Open Access Journal of Dental Sciences is an internationally peer reviewed Open Access Journal covering all aspects of Dental sciences. The mission of this journal is to spread knowledge covering Dental Implants, Basic Sciences for Dentistry, Cosmetic Dentistry, Dental Anaesthesia, Prevention and Treatment of Disorders, Diseases and conditions related to Dental and Oral Cavity etc.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2821276 2020-11-22T13:51:51-05:00 2020-11-22T13:55:37-05:00

<p>Open Access Journal of Dental Sciences is an internationally peer reviewed Open Access Journal covering all aspects of Dental sciences. The mission of this journal is to spread knowledge covering Dental Implants, Basic Sciences for Dentistry, Cosmetic Dentistry, Dental Anaesthesia, Prevention and Treatment of Disorders, Diseases and conditions related to Dental and Oral Cavity etc.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2820203 2020-11-20T16:43:01-05:00 2020-11-20T16:44:51-05:00

<p>The MIT Libraries has negotiated an innovative open-access agreement with the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) that allows MIT authors to make ACM articles freely available at no cost to them. It is the libraries’ first publisher contract completed under the principles for open scholarship in the MIT Framework for Publisher Contracts,</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2820199 2020-11-20T16:26:32-05:00 2020-11-22T16:32:02-05:00

<h2>The agreement will enable authors at eligible German institutes to publish an estimated 400 open-access papers each year in Springer Nature journals from the Nature line of titles.</h2>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2820085 2020-11-20T14:52:20-05:00 2020-11-20T14:59:14-05:00

<p>JSTOR is digitizing and making available in Open Access form 680 out-of-print scholarly books published by El Colegio de México, thanks to a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2820083 2020-11-20T14:47:35-05:00 2020-11-20T14:50:42-05:00

<p>Portico</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2820073 2020-11-20T14:22:15-05:00 2020-11-20T14:23:14-05:00

<p>Bookshelf provides free online access to books and documents in life science and healthcare. Search, read, and discover.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2820072 2020-11-20T14:05:00-05:00 2022-04-04T06:12:11-04:00

The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books. Academic publishers are invited to provide metadata of their Open Access books to DOAB.

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2819996 2020-11-20T13:08:07-05:00 2020-11-20T13:08:07-05:00

<p>De Gruyter is home to over 600 fully open access journals across STEM and HSS disciplines. These broad scope journals have become flagship open access publishing outlets, renowned amongst the academic and scientific communities for bringing together versatile and diverse research as well as covering all aspects of their respective disciplines.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2819974 2020-11-20T12:15:11-05:00 2020-11-20T12:16:38-05:00

<p>African Journals OnLine (AJOL) is the world's largest and preeminent platform of African-published scholarly journals. AJOL is a Non-Profit Organisation that (since 1998) works to increase global &amp; continental online access, awareness, quality &amp; use of African-published, peer-reviewed research.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2819972 2020-11-20T12:12:30-05:00 2020-11-20T12:12:30-05:00

<p>The African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development (AJFAND) is a peer reviewed scholarly journal. The journal is envisaged to enable dissemination and sharing of food and nutrition information issues on the continent. It taps social science, biochemical, food and nutrition related research and information. It also addresses issues related to agriculture, food security, and nutrition that affect Africa’s development and people’s livelihoods.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2819970 2020-11-20T11:57:08-05:00 2020-11-20T11:59:05-05:00

<p>EBSCO Discovery Service provides users with a single search box that makes in-depth research easy. EDS enables researchers to find quality open access content alongside subscription articles and books, leveraging subject indexing and other metadata, full-text searching, superior relevance ranking and high-quality linking in order to maximize usage.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2819897 2020-11-20T10:53:07-05:00 2020-11-20T10:55:07-05:00

<p>BASE is one of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for academic web resources. BASE provides more than 240 million documents from more than 8,000 <a href="https://www.base-search.net/about/en/about_sources_date.php">content providers</a>. You can access the full texts of about 60% of the indexed documents for free (Open Access). BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2819895 2020-11-20T10:40:33-05:00 2020-11-20T10:46:02-05:00

<p>he Analytical Sciences Digital Library, ASDL, collects, catalogs, links and publishes peer reviewed web-based discovery materials pertinent to innovations in curricular development and supporting technical resources in the analytical sciences.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2819890 2020-11-20T10:27:46-05:00 2020-11-20T10:34:28-05:00

<p>AGRIS is the International System for Agricultural Science and Technology, a multilingual bibliographic database that connects users directly to a rich collection of research and worldwide technical information on food and agriculture.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2819771 2020-11-20T08:49:37-05:00 2020-11-20T09:53:57-05:00

<p>"Though copyright law is the root of the problem, it is also the source of potential solutions. As the Supreme Court of Canada has <a href="https://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/1973/index.do">stated</a>, copyright is supposed to achieve “a balance between promoting the public interest in the encouragement and dissemination of works of the arts and intellect and obtaining a just reward for the creator.” Indeed, many of the activities about which my fellow educators worried are already protected within the scope of <a href="https://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/2125/index.do">users’ rights</a>. Canada’s Copyright Act contains exceptions for <a href="https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-42/page-15.html#h-103867">reading in public</a>, for <a href="https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-42/page-9.html#h-103366">education and training</a> (including for <a href="https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-42/page-10.html#docCont">lessons communicated online</a>), and a <a href="https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-42/page-8.html#h-103270">fair dealing</a> defence for the purposes of education or private study. These provisions are to be interpreted with a view to the copyright balance, which “<a href="https://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/9994/index.do">should be preserved in the digital environment</a>.” If reading aloud to a class or showing an illustrative image on a PowerPoint slide was lawful in a classroom, it should be lawful in the online classroom.</p> <p>The problem is that the specific educational exceptions are narrowly drawn and difficult to understand and satisfy, while the broader fair dealing defence requires a context-specific case-by-case assessment, making educators and their institutions reluctant to rely upon it. The result is a permission-first or ‘clear-for-fear’ culture that undermines user rights and unduly restricts the educational activities of teachers and students...."</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2820079 2020-11-20T14:43:53-05:00 2021-01-19T08:58:39-05:00

<p>"As of this week, roughly 10,000 preprints about the novel coronavirus were available on the preprint servers bioRxiv and medRxiv alone, a remarkable feat given that this virus has existed for less than a year. Collectively, these preprints have put vital research information into circulation much faster than would have been possible under the traditional academic publishing model, in which emerging knowledge is sequestered until it clears peer review. Although peer review has long been held up as the gold standard of academic publication, the flowering of preprints during the pandemic gives the lie to the fiction that pre-publication peer review is essential to ensuring scholarly rigor. In a fast-moving era of digital information, preprints should become the new normal....</p> <p>Moreover, the pandemic has inspired the emergence of several third-party services that review or curate published preprints. <a href="https://prelights.biologists.com/">PreLights</a>, a preprint review site supported by the not-for-profit publisher The Company of Biologists, maintains a running <a href="https://covidpreprints.com/articles/timeline.html">timeline</a> of what they deem to be “landmark” preprints about the biology and transmission of the novel coronavirus. Each entry gives a brief description of why the preprint is important, along with a direct link to the paper. As of this writing, they have highlighted approximately 125 preprints, providing a useful filtration system for the thousands of preprints that have been published about the coronavirus...."</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2819308 2020-11-19T16:58:13-05:00 2020-11-19T16:58:13-05:00

<p><span>Taylor &amp; Francis Group’s flourishing program of full open access journals enables you to make your academic research freely and permanently available so anyone, anywhere can read and build upon this research.</span></p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2819307 2020-11-19T16:55:13-05:00 2020-11-19T16:55:13-05:00

<p>Taylor &amp; Francis Group’s flourishing program of full open access journals enables you to make your academic research freely and permanently available so anyone, anywhere can read and build upon this research.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2819306 2020-11-19T16:41:25-05:00 2020-11-19T16:52:03-05:00

<p>Wiley Open Access publishes authoritative peer reviewed open access journals across many research disciplines.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2833189 2020-12-08T16:05:20-05:00 2020-12-08T16:05:20-05:00

<p>IOP Publishing (IOPP) has signed a new open access (OA) transformative agreement with the Polish Academic Consortium.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2819214 2020-11-19T14:55:31-05:00 2020-11-19T15:01:40-05:00

<p>The SpringerOpen portfolio has grown tremendously since its launch in 2010, so that we now offer researchers from all areas of science, technology, medicine, the humanities and social sciences a place to publish open access in journals. Publishing with SpringerOpen makes your work freely available online for everyone, immediately upon publication, and our high-level peer-review and production processes guarantee the quality and reliability of the work. Open access books are published by our Springer imprint.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2819154 2020-11-19T13:01:51-05:00 2020-11-19T13:02:21-05:00

<p>JSTOR is a digital library for the intellectually curious. We provide a platform for discovering and connecting <a href="https://about.jstor.org/whats-in-jstor/">research, images, and primary sources</a>. As a not-for-profit, we partner with libraries, museums, and publishers to <a href="https://about.jstor.org/librarians/fees/">reduce costs</a>, <a href="https://about.jstor.org/get-jstor/">extend access</a>, and preserve scholarship for the future. We do this because we believe in the power of knowledge to change the world for the better.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2819151 2020-11-19T12:55:44-05:00 2020-11-19T12:56:37-05:00

<p>Our growing collection of Open Access journals cover topical areas in sustainability and security studies, and offer broad coverage in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2819150 2020-11-19T12:45:34-05:00 2020-11-19T12:47:06-05:00

<p>ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB) is a digital collection of over 5,400 seminal books in the humanities and related social sciences. These titles are presented in collaboration with more than 120 publishers and <a href="https://www.publishing.umich.edu/">Michigan Publishing</a>. Books in the ACLS HEB collection have been recommended and reviewed by scholars and constituent learned societies of the American Council of Learned Societies.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2819149 2020-11-19T12:37:22-05:00 2020-11-19T12:39:35-05:00

<p>Edinburgh University Press book: they go through the same rigorous peer review process and enjoy the same high production standards and attention from our marketing team. Where our open access books differ is that their ebook editions – in PDF and in epub – are made freely available. The print edition is sold in the usual way.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2819147 2020-11-19T12:14:18-05:00 2020-11-19T12:14:18-05:00

<p><span>The open access monograph publishing program was conceived in 2014 as a means of publishing open access books that were relevant to the study and practice of theological librarianship. Currently the mission of the program is publication of open access works on subjects at the intersection of librarianship and religious and theological studies that potentially impact libraries. We seek to provide resources that guide and support innovative library services and enhance professional development. </span></p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2818990 2020-11-19T10:58:45-05:00 2020-11-19T11:00:41-05:00

<p>The Developmental Disabilities Network Journal (DDNJ) publishes research and evaluation on the multiple systems that serve individuals with disabilities and their families. The journal specifically highlights programs, practices and policies that encourage the full inclusion of people with disabilities in all aspects of public life.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2819146 2020-11-19T12:06:21-05:00 2021-04-27T10:56:56-04:00

<p>DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. DOAJ is independent. All funding is via donations, 18% of which comes from sponsors and 82% from supporters and publisher supporters. All DOAJ services are free of charge including being indexed in DOAJ. All data is freely available.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2818942 2020-11-19T09:11:18-05:00 2020-11-20T08:39:54-05:00

<p>This study explores the extent to which an institutional repository makes papers available and accessible on the open Web by using 170 journal articles housed in DigiNole Commons, the institutional repository at Florida State University.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2839115 2020-12-16T11:49:38-05:00 2020-12-17T09:03:27-05:00

<p>NEW YORK, Nov. 19, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Aries Systems Corporation, a leading technology workflow solutions provider to the scholarly publishing community, and Digital Commons, a leading platform for open access publishing and institutional repositories, are pleased to announce their partnership supporting the growth of Diamond Open Access (OA) journals across the globe.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2818930 2020-11-19T08:43:43-05:00 2020-11-19T08:56:45-05:00

<p><span>The Open-i project provides novel information retrieval services for biomedical articles from the full text collections such as </span><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/">PubMed Central</a><span>. It is unique in its ability to index both the text and images in the articles.</span></p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2818118 2020-11-18T16:56:19-05:00 2020-11-18T16:58:13-05:00

<p>CORE’s mission is to aggregate all open access research outputs from repositories and journals worldwide and make them available to the public. In this way CORE facilitates free unrestricted access to research for all.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2818112 2020-11-18T16:49:24-05:00 2020-11-18T16:50:19-05:00

<p>BASE is one of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for academic web resources. BASE provides more than 240 million documents from more than 8,000 content providers. You can access the full texts of about 60% of the indexed documents for free (Open Access). BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2817911 2020-11-18T13:37:43-05:00 2020-11-18T16:09:10-05:00

<p>The JCT is a web-based tool which provides clear advice to researchers on how they can comply with their funder’s Plan S-aligned Open Access policy when seeking to publish in their chosen journal. During this open testing phase, the community will have the opportunity to get acquainted with the JCT and provide feedback, so that the tool increases its readiness ahead of the implementation of Plan S in January 2021.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2835556 2020-12-11T10:15:36-05:00 2020-12-11T10:15:36-05:00

<p>he Japan Alliance of University Library Consortia for E-Resources (JUSTICE) and Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, have successfully reached agreement on a new three-year proposal for subscription publishing with measures to support Japan’s open access (OA) goals, beginning January 1, 2021.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2806683 2020-11-03T09:28:35-05:00 2020-11-04T16:44:57-05:00

<p>During the Summer 2019, CHIST-ERA has created a working group dedicated to Open Science in order to fill in the existing gaps in Open Science policy at the multilateral European level. About a year later, CHIST-ERA is proud to release its Open Science Policy Statement, which summarises its strong pioneering engagements for a more efficient and transparent excellent science.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2833202 2020-12-08T16:19:17-05:00 2020-12-08T16:19:17-05:00

<p>In late 2018, the announcement of Plan S jolted the global scientific publishing community. A group of European funders, calling itself cOAlition S, released its provocative statement of intent to terminate all subscription journals and flip the entire scholarly publishing ecosystem to open access (OA).</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2838329 2020-12-15T10:54:22-05:00 2020-12-15T10:54:22-05:00

<p>In its first such partnership with a university in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) has signed a transformative “read and publish” agreement with Khalifa University of Science and Technology in Abu Dhabi.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2839371 2020-12-16T16:47:22-05:00 2020-12-16T16:47:22-05:00

<p>“This is a timely and refreshing call for open, inclusive and collaborative science from UNESCO, WHO and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Today, as a second wave of coronavirus takes hold, we welcome this calm and firm call back to the principles and vision of open science, the benefits of which have become abundantly clear – as have the shortcomings of locking scientific knowledge behind expensive paywalls. The short-term suspension of barriers to some areas of research during the pandemic has been helpful, but also teaches us how we could have benefited from open-science practices within the research-innovation cycle. Indeed, we should not need to wait for a societal system breakdown before seeking out, as an international community, a sustainable solution to enabling lasting progress through universal and free access to scientific research.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2838402 2020-12-15T11:49:27-05:00 2020-12-15T12:02:59-05:00

<p>The publishing industry is adapting its open access options to support the research community’s needs in the face of shifting funder requirements. In particular, as funders adopt new or revised open access mandates, researchers are finding that grants come with stipulations of how and where they should publish their results. ACS is dedicated to meeting the needs of the global chemistry community and the needs of our authors and readers. To support authors in meeting their individual funder requirements, ACS has introduced fully open access journals, including JACS Au and our forthcoming ACS Au suite of titles. These journals will complement our existing fully open access titles, ACS Central Science and ACS Omega, and will offer authors more options on where to publish their research.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2834066 2020-12-09T16:50:19-05:00 2020-12-09T16:55:32-05:00

<p>The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology's three peer-reviewed journals — Journal of Biological Chemistry, Journal of Lipid Research and Molecular &amp; Cellular Proteomics — will become fully open access in 2021.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2797271 2020-10-21T16:50:04-04:00 2020-11-27T08:29:14-05:00 Elliot Harmon

<p>The COVID-19 pandemic demands that governments, scientific researchers, and industry work together to bring life-saving technology to the public regardless of who can afford it. But even as we take steps to make medical technology and treatments available to everyone, we shouldn’t forget that more crises will come after COVID-19.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2856174 2021-01-12T14:48:24-05:00 2021-01-12T14:48:24-05:00

<p>Bentham Science takes its Open Access management to the forefront by becoming the first publisher to fully leverage Chronos Hub. The collaboration serves to improve the authors' experience and guarantee compliance with their funders' and institution's publishing policies, as well as automating the payment and reporting processes.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2835781 2020-12-11T14:56:24-05:00 2020-12-12T08:58:04-05:00

<p>Hoboken, N.J. and Beijing--October 20, 2020-- John Wiley and Sons Inc. (NYSE:JWa) (NYSE:JWb), a leader in research and education, today introduced its Open Science Ambassador Program. The program acknowledges and supports Chinese thought leaders around the world who embrace open science principles and encourage a free exchange of ideas and collaboration within their communities.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2839364 2020-12-16T15:47:04-05:00 2020-12-16T15:47:04-05:00

<p>Jisc, the digital solutions provider for education and research in the UK, and the Public Library of Science (PLOS) today announced two 3-year Open Access (OA) agreements that allow researchers to publish in PLOS journals without incurring article processing charges (APC). This is the first time that a large university consortium has provided collective agreements as an alternative to APCs at this scale. Jisc and PLOS will also collaborate on future data, metrics, and tools for institutions to evaluate OA publishing agreements.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2833025 2020-12-08T12:47:42-05:00 2022-07-29T10:21:25-04:00

Doha: Qatar National Library is at the forefront of the open access movement in Qatar, and researchers have lauded the easy process of  obtaining funding for publishing their papers. 

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2839894 2020-12-17T13:24:08-05:00 2020-12-17T13:24:08-05:00

<p>Scientists who work for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) will be required to make their research articles immediately and freely available to the public starting Jan. 1, 2022, the organization announced today.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2839117 2020-12-16T11:56:12-05:00 2020-12-16T11:57:16-05:00

<p>Hoboken, N.J and Munich, Germany--September 29, 2020-- John Wiley and Sons Inc. (NYSE:JWa) (NYSE:JWb) and the open access project DeepGreen signed a collaboration agreement to distribute research published under the Wiley/Projekt DEAL agreement to open access repositories throughout Germany.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2839155 2020-12-16T13:15:05-05:00 2020-12-16T13:15:05-05:00

<p>The Initiative for Open Abstracts (I4OA) calls on all scholarly publishers to open the abstracts of their publications, and specifically to distribute them through Crossref, in order to facilitate large-scale access and promote discovery of critical research. I4OA--a collaboration between scholarly publishers, academic librarians, researchers, infrastructure providers and other stakeholders--will launch at the online conference of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) on September 24th.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2856165 2021-01-12T14:21:03-05:00 2021-06-10T09:23:33-04:00

<p>Hoboken, N.J --September 17, 2020-- John Wiley and Sons Inc. (NYSE:JWa) (NYSE:JWb) and the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles (ISEV) are pleased to announce their open access publishing partnership for the Journal of Extracellular Vesicles. The journal will transition to the Wiley Online Library platform in the fall of 2020.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2823501 2020-11-25T09:17:23-05:00 2020-11-27T10:18:20-05:00

<p>Open access (OA) books are reaching more countries and have greater usage and higher citation numbers than non-OA books. A new analysis collaboratively produced by Springer Nature and COARD (Collaborative Open Access Research &amp; Development) presents these and other key findings in a new white paper that explores how OA affects the geographical diversity of readers. </p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2833097 2020-12-08T13:57:35-05:00 2020-12-09T09:21:15-05:00

<p>While there has been a push for open-access journals, concern about lost revenue has left many associations reluctant to try it. The American Society for Cell Biology is testing the “subscribe to open” model to maintain revenue while still providing the benefits of open access.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2833864 2020-12-09T12:20:38-05:00 2020-12-09T12:20:38-05:00

<p>Mandates with the aim to enforce Open Access publishing, such as Plan S, need to respect researchers' needs and should contribute to the broader goal of Open Science.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2828052 2020-12-01T16:31:28-05:00 2020-12-02T08:34:33-05:00

<p>PMID: 32877246 DOI: 10.2214/AJR.20.22835</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2761774 2020-09-01T12:25:50-04:00 2020-11-18T16:40:53-05:00

<p>The 2020 Open Access Week Advisory Committee is pleased to announce that the theme for this year’s International Open Access Week, to be held October 19-25, will be “Open with Purpose: Taking Action to Build Structural Equity and Inclusion.”</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2838403 2020-12-15T11:57:46-05:00 2020-12-15T11:57:46-05:00

<p>In the first partnership of this type with an institution in Asia, the Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) is pleased to announce a transformative open access agreement with the National Health Research Institutes (NHRI) in Taiwan. The agreement, which will last through 2023, will help accelerate open access publishing by NHRI’s researchers.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2834063 2020-12-09T16:44:52-05:00 2020-12-09T16:44:52-05:00

<p>How much scientific data should be open and accessible? This remains an issue of recurrent debate, with strong arguments made on both sides. Whatever the current issues, the future will most likely be one in which open digital publishing flourishes.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2833191 2020-12-08T16:11:07-05:00 2020-12-08T16:11:07-05:00

<p>Open-access publishing initiative Plan S is in the spotlight again following the decision by the European Research Council (ERC) to withdraw its support. The move has divided opinion within the research community.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2839215 2020-12-16T13:51:41-05:00 2020-12-16T13:51:41-05:00

<p><span>As part of Cambridge University Press's continuing focus on open access, five of its journals will publish with Hindawi Limited under a new collaborative publishing agreement.</span></p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2839360 2020-12-16T15:38:11-05:00 2020-12-16T15:38:11-05:00

<p>Oryx - The International Journal of Conservation, is to become fully open access from 1 January 2021, making it free to read by anyone with an internet connection, anywhere in the world.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2839204 2020-12-16T13:44:15-05:00 2020-12-16T13:44:15-05:00

<p>The Company of Biologists has offered Open Access publishing options since 2004 and two of its five journals are already fully Open Access. The Transformative Journal strategy signals more clearly the journals' commitment to move towards full Open Access, while a transition period allows the Company to provide publishing options that support all authors through this change in the publishing landscape.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2838404 2020-12-15T12:01:24-05:00 2020-12-15T12:01:24-05:00

<p>ACS Publications is a long-time leader in open science and open access. We are a pioneer in both author-centered open access programs and ACS Read + Publish Agreements. Find out more about our commitment to open science and how we're supporting authors and administrators in an ever-changing and constantly evolving open access landscape.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2833190 2020-12-08T16:08:10-05:00 2020-12-08T16:09:27-05:00

<p>Plan S, a European initiative designed to push open access publishing, has released details of how scientists could publish in subscription-based journals.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2833203 2020-12-08T16:22:58-05:00 2020-12-08T16:22:58-05:00

<p>Springer Nature’s agreement with the University of California portends US adoption of a publishing practice that is becoming commonplace in Europe.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2919292 2021-03-18T12:36:13-04:00 2021-03-18T12:36:13-04:00

<p>Gainesville, FL, July 1, 2020 - The George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida (UF) and Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, have agreed to a new pilot program to support open access (OA) publishing at UF.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2820202 2020-11-20T16:38:47-05:00 2020-11-21T08:50:36-05:00

<p>The MIT Press has announced the launch of Rapid Reviews: COVID-19 (RR:C19), an open access, rapid-review overlay journal that will accelerate peer review of Covid-19-related research and deliver real-time, verified scientific information that policymakers and health leaders can use.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2927025 2021-03-24T15:59:47-04:00 2021-03-24T16:01:33-04:00

<p>The Open Access movement is lowering barriers not just to reading scholarship, but also to publishing as well. Some paywalled journals allow their authors to publish their research as open access, but only for a fee which can sometimes be in the thousands of dollars. Publishing entails costs, and fortunately members of the Open Access movement have organized to make it easier for journals to publish articles without charging readers fees or charging authors publication fees.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2918237 2021-03-17T12:10:51-04:00 2021-03-17T12:10:51-04:00

<p>HOBOKEN, N.J.-- June 17, 2020--John Wiley &amp; Sons Inc. (NYSE: JW-A) (NYSE: JW-B), a global leader in research and education, and the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) today announced their open access (OA) publishing partnership, transitioning the IET journal program to gold open access from January 2021.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2852911 2021-01-07T14:49:59-05:00 2021-01-07T14:49:59-05:00

<p>The agreement will include approximately 2,700 journals as well as plans to transition Nature journals to open access for the University of California system.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2833096 2020-12-08T13:52:39-05:00 2020-12-08T13:52:39-05:00

<p>Many in the world of scholarship share the conviction that open access will be the engine of transformation leading to more culture, more research, more discovery, and more solutions to small and big problems.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2920365 2021-03-19T15:51:16-04:00 2021-03-19T15:51:16-04:00

<p>The Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced Thursday that it is ceasing negotiations with academic publisher Elsevier for a new journal subscription contract. The institution currently subscribes to nearly 700 journals on a title-by-title basis. </p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2856167 2021-01-12T14:27:29-05:00 2021-01-12T14:27:29-05:00

<p>SAN FRANCISCO -- Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and the Public Library of Science (PLOS) today announced a two-year open access agreement that allows researchers to publish in PLOS' suite of journals without incurring article processing charges (APC). This partnership brings together two organizations that believe researchers should be able to access content freely and make their work available publicly, regardless of their access to funds.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2828053 2020-12-01T16:47:57-05:00 2020-12-02T08:32:09-05:00

<p>During the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers and publishers have pulled together to publish their outputs at an unprecedented rate</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2963182 2021-04-15T09:35:22-04:00 2021-04-15T09:35:22-04:00

<p>This paper provides a philosophical inquiry into the unexplored relationship between Open Access and interdisciplinarity and makes the case that there is an intrinsic affinity between these two trends, while concluding that all interdisciplinary research ought to be Open Access.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2833188 2020-12-08T16:01:17-05:00 2020-12-09T09:16:18-05:00

<p>After decades of debate on the feasibility of open access (OA) to scientific publications, we may be nearing a tipping point. A number of recent developments, such as Plan S, suggest that OA upon publication could become the default in the sciences within the next several years. Despite uncertainty about the long-term sustainability of OA models, many publishers who had been reluctant to abandon the subscription business model are showing openness to OA (1). Although more OA can mean more immediate, global access to scholarship, there remains a need for practical, sustainable models, for careful analysis of the consequences of business model choices, and for “caution in responding to passionate calls for a ‘default to open’” (2). Of particular concern for the academic community, as subscription revenues decline in the transition to OA and some publishers prioritize other sources of revenue, is the growing ownership of data analytics, hosting, and portal services by large scholarly publishers. This may enhance publishers' ability to lock in institutional customers through combined offerings that condition open access to journals upon purchase of other services. Even if such “bundled” arrangements have a near-term benefit of increasing openly licensed scholarship, they may run counter to long-term interests of the academic community by reducing competition and the diversity of service offerings. The healthy functioning of the academic community, including fair terms and conditions from commercial partners, requires that the global marketplace for data analytics and knowledge infrastructure be kept open to real competition</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2856171 2021-01-12T14:33:54-05:00 2021-01-13T08:46:55-05:00

<p>SAN FRANCISCO -- Iowa State University Library and the Public Library of Science (PLOS) today announced a three-year Open Access agreement that allows researchers to publish in PLOS' suite of journals without incurring Article Processing Charges (APCs). This partnership brings together two organizations that believe researchers should be able to access content freely and make their work available publicly, regardless of their access to grant funds.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2839361 2020-12-16T15:41:07-05:00 2020-12-16T15:41:07-05:00

<p>Springer Nature and UNESCO are delighted to announce the signing of a framework agreement encompassing the publication of open access books focusing on UNESCO's main pillars, notably education, the natural and social human sciences, culture, and communication and information areas. Written by experts affiliated to UNESCO, these books will publish under two of Springer Nature's key imprints, namely Palgrave Macmillan and Springer, and will offer up-to-date and qualified research on a range of critical issues pertaining to UNESCO's areas of expertise. Open access publication will enable readers around the world to access the books free of charge on Springer Nature's content platform SpringerLink as well as on UNESCO's open access repository (UNESDOC); readers will be able to share and re-use the works, further increasing their impact and reach.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2666961 2020-04-23T12:48:40-04:00 2020-12-01T12:11:32-05:00

<p>During the lockdown of the entire country, China is bravely fighting against COVID-19. Many database vendors, publishers, and Internet companies announced to offer free access to academic resources to help students and researchers get the resources they need from home. Most of the publishers offered free access to everyone for a limited time and to decide whether to extend the period or not depend on the COVID-19 situation while some publishers announced open access from the announcement date indefinitely.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2963184 2021-04-15T09:44:11-04:00 2021-04-15T09:44:11-04:00

<p>The research project of by Katie Wilson et al. (2019) has analyzed access policies from twenty academic libraries worldwide, to find that individuals without university affiliation oftentimes experience financial and administrative barriers to accessing non-digital collections. In addition, Open Access policies, such as for research result sharing, of these institutions have not been found to comprehensively alleviate public access issues. In other words, Open Access policies can be expected to facilitate knowledge sharing to a limited extent only. At the same time, as Open Access gains in adoption, becomes increasingly mandated and receives financial support, institutional barriers to knowledge, such as on-location access fee requirements, are likely to become reduced as well.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2839143 2020-12-16T13:08:05-05:00 2020-12-16T13:12:00-05:00

<p>Since the beginning of digital rights management (DRM) for ebooks, library users have expressed frustration with reading and navigating digital files. Many have been vocal about how DRM has challenged their ability to access information online, pointing to the: lack of interoperability and standards among dedicated ebook vendors (because of proprietary DRM technologies) confusion as to what users can and cannot do with digital files inability to use ebooks effectively for research, as limits are placed on activities such as copying and printing absence of any guarantee of access to content in perpetuity For these and other reasons, users are dissatisfied with how publishers and content providers are making ebooks available.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2823001 2020-11-24T17:01:37-05:00 2020-11-25T09:14:15-05:00

<p>SAGE unveiled the <a href="https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/sage-open-access-portal"><strong>SAGE Open Access Portal</strong></a>, which allows authors, consortia, libraries, and funders to manage the OA publishing workflow. It currently supports <a href="https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/sage-choice"><strong>SAGE Choice</strong></a>, SAGE’s hybrid OA publishing option for more than 900 journals</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2839173 2020-12-16T13:18:21-05:00 2020-12-16T13:18:21-05:00

<p>21 February 2020, Yangon - Access to research in Myanmar will increase thanks to a new collaboration agreement between national and international partners, signed in Yangon today, and paving the way for a new national open access portal.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2823820 2020-11-25T14:58:36-05:00 2020-11-27T09:46:25-05:00

<p>Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is spreading rapidly across China, and as of Feb 16, 2020, had been reported in 26 countries globally. The availability of accurate and robust epidemiological, clinical, and laboratory data early in an epidemic is important to guide public health decision-making.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2918261 2021-03-17T13:13:42-04:00 2021-03-17T13:13:42-04:00

<p>Dublin, February 18, 2020 - A consortium of publicly-funded Irish higher education institutions and Elsevier, a global leader in information analytics specializing in science and health, have agreed the country's first open access program with a major scientific publisher towards the goal of full open access to Irish research publications.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2820200 2020-11-20T16:28:03-05:00 2020-11-21T08:52:04-05:00

<p>Nearly 100 academic journals, societies, institutes, and companies sign a commitment to make research and data on COVID-19 freely available, at least for the duration of the outbreak.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2918256 2021-03-17T12:59:18-04:00 2021-03-17T12:59:18-04:00

<p>HOBOKEN, N.J.--February 12, 2020 - John Wiley &amp; Sons, Inc. (NYSE: JW-A) (NYSE: JW-B), a global leader in research and education, and FinELib, a Finnish consortium of higher education and research institutions, have announced a new three-year license that combines an open access and subscription agreement effective February 2020. This 3-year agreement will provide 22 Finnish institutions with continued access to Wiley's subscription journals and enables their affiliated authors to publish open access articles in Wiley's fully gold and hybrid journals.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2918342 2021-03-17T13:36:44-04:00 2021-03-17T13:36:44-04:00

<p>A landmark national agreement has today been signed by the Norwegian Directorate for ICT and Joint Services in Higher Education &amp; Research (Unit) and the leading open access publisher Frontiers.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2839369 2020-12-16T16:36:52-05:00 2020-12-16T16:36:52-05:00

<p>ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, entered into transformative open access agreements with several of its largest institutional customers, including the University of California (UC), Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Iowa State University (ISU). The agreements, which run for three-year terms beginning January 1, 2020, cover both access to and open access publication in ACM's journals, proceedings and magazines for these universities, and represent the first transformative open access agreements for ACM.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2918253 2021-03-17T12:50:52-04:00 2021-03-17T12:50:52-04:00

<p>HOBOKEN, N.J. - January 14, 2020 - John Wiley and Sons, Inc. and Iowa State University today announced the signing of a three-year transitional open access agreement, among the first-of-its-kind in the United States. The agreement will advance Iowa State University's goal to increase open access publishing and expand its open access offerings, allowing peer-reviewed articles to be read and shared immediately, and making important research broadly available.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2918556 2021-03-17T16:51:57-04:00 2021-03-18T08:08:28-04:00

<p>HOBOKEN, N.J.--December 17, 2019-- John Wiley &amp; Sons Inc. (NYSE: JW-A) (NYSE: JW-B), a global leader in research and education, and Bibsam, a consortium of 85 higher education and research institutions, announced a combined open access and subscription agreement that will take effect January 1, 2020. This 3-year agreement will provide 45 participating Swedish institutions with continued access to Wiley's subscription journals and enable their affiliated authors to publish open access articles in Wiley's fully gold and hybrid journals. This partnership advances open research and discovery to create more impact for scholarly research.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2833736 2020-12-09T11:00:38-05:00 2020-12-10T08:41:16-05:00

<p>When news broke early in 2019 that the University of California had walked away from licensing negotiations with the world’s largest scholarly publisher (Elsevier), a wave of triumphalism spread through the OA Twittersphere. The talks had collapsed because of Elsevier’s failure to offer UC what it demanded: a new-style Big Deal in which the university got access to all of Elsevier’s paywalled content plus OA publishing rights for all UC authors – what UC refers to as a “Read and Publish” agreement. In addition, UC wanted Elsevier to provide this at a reduced cost. 1 Given its size and influence, UC’s decision was hailed as “a shot heard around the academic world”.2 The news had added piquancy coming as it did in the wake of a radical new European OA initiative called Plan S. Proposed in 2018 by a group of European funders calling themselves cOAlition S, the aim of Plan S is to make all publicly funded research open access by 2021. 3 Buoyed up by these two developments open access advocates concluded that – 17 years after the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) – the goal of universal (or near-universal) open access is finally within reach. Or as the Berkeley librarian who led the UC negotiations put it, “a tipping point” has been reached. 4 But could defeat be snatched from the jaws of success? </p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2829437 2020-12-03T13:55:06-05:00 2020-12-03T13:58:17-05:00

<p>Publication of academic research serves four primary functions; archiving, registration, dissemination, and certification of the research. [...]around 20 years ago, all four functions were mostly bundled together through publication in print media that were fairly uniform in process, though widely diverse in subject and geographical coverage, and with the end point being a research paper in a bound journal. Responses to the challenges of closed access and affordability of scholarly publishing have come to be conflated under the broad banner of the open access movement, which began with a series of declarations in Budapest in 2002, and Bethesda and Berlin in 2003. Since these declarations there has been a diversity of OA initiatives globally. [...]focusing only on the cost of access to knowledge nowadays misses the many advantages there are to making research freely available and reusable. In the United States, the Office of Science and Technology Policy under President Obama issued a requirement for all Federal Agencies with annual research and development expenditures over $100 million to make the published results of their research openly available, through a variety of approaches, within 12 months of publication.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2839368 2020-12-16T16:28:12-05:00 2020-12-16T16:28:12-05:00

<p>HOBOKEN, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--John Wiley and Sons, Inc. (NYSE:JWA)(NYSE:JWB) and OhioLINK, a library consortium serving 118 libraries and 89 Ohio colleges and universities, announced today the signing of a Wiley Open Access Account agreement. A Wiley Open Access Account will enable OhioLINK-affiliated researchers to use a central fund for Article Publication Charges (APC). The partnership reflects both parties’ growing commitment to open research and advancing scholarly communications. OhioLINK is the first North American library consortium to centrally fund the creation and dissemination of open access research.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2918265 2021-03-17T13:22:56-04:00 2021-03-17T13:22:56-04:00

<p>HOBOKEN, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--John Wiley and Sons, Inc. (NYSE:JWA)(NYSE:JWB) and OhioLINK, a library consortium serving 118 libraries and 89 Ohio colleges and universities, announced today the signing of a Wiley Open Access Account agreement. A Wiley Open Access Account will enable OhioLINK-affiliated researchers to use a central fund for Article Publication Charges (APC). The partnership reflects both parties' growing commitment to open research and advancing scholarly communications. OhioLINK is the first North American library consortium to centrally fund the creation and dissemination of open access research.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2857994 2021-01-14T16:52:48-05:00 2021-01-14T16:52:48-05:00

<p>Plan S, the scheme a group of European science funding agencies hopes will pull down journal paywalls, is to be delayed by a year.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2833098 2020-12-08T14:04:19-05:00 2020-12-08T16:20:10-05:00

<p>From 2021, all research funded by public or private grants should be published in open access journals, according to a group of funding agencies called coALition S.1</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2833865 2020-12-09T12:26:19-05:00 2020-12-09T12:26:19-05:00

<p>Open Access publishing is more widespread in Latin America than in any other region of the world, and continues to grow. We sat down with CLACSO’s Open Access Advisor Dominique Babini to find out why.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2821419 2020-11-22T20:33:17-05:00 2020-11-23T08:38:55-05:00

<p>The number of both print and electronic open access (OA) journals has increased dramatically. Although electronic availability of information on the Internet may offer greater potential for information sharing, it also gives rise to “predatory” journals and deceptive publishers. In this Invited Commentary, the authors describe both the opportunities and potential perils that come with OA publications.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2827797 2020-12-01T11:55:38-05:00 2020-12-02T08:59:54-05:00

<p>China’s programme of innovation-driven development, underpinned by research and technology, has placed new demands on the Chinese scientific community. What role for open access – and the Europe-led Plan S programme?</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2852890 2021-01-07T14:32:59-05:00 2021-01-07T14:32:59-05:00

<p>The goal of Plan S is simple -- make all publicly funded research immediately available to the public. It’s a goal many universities, research funders and academics say they support. The problem is agreeing on how to get there, and who should pay for it.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2823939 2020-11-25T16:54:09-05:00 2020-11-27T08:48:23-05:00

<p>As universities cut library funding and forego expensive journal subscriptions, many academic organizations and researchers, including the American Educational Research Association (AERA), are moving towards open-access publications that are freely downloadable by anyone with a working internet connection.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2852848 2021-01-07T13:54:30-05:00 2021-01-07T13:54:30-05:00

<p>The beginning of September 2018 brought a thunderclap to the scientific-publishing world, with the announcement of the controversial “Plan S.” The plan, which comes from a group of core European national and E.C. funders that together support billions of euros worth of scientific research, holds that as 1 January 2020—just over 12 months from now—any research that the funders support must be “published in compliant Open Access [OA] Journals or on compliant Open Access Platforms.”</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2827798 2020-12-01T12:00:27-05:00 2020-12-02T08:58:30-05:00

<p>In October, 2017, leading scientific institutions of China, such as the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China’s National Science Library and National Science and Technology Library, have affirmed the importance of Open Access for scientific research and communication, while joining the global OA2020 initiative that aims to accelerate the transition to Open Access around the world. I</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2823927 2020-11-25T16:26:18-05:00 2020-11-27T08:54:46-05:00

<p>The Internet has revolutionized the way we share and access information, yet most scholarly journal literature remains locked behind paywalls for the average reader. Thus, practitioners and policymakers in fields like education are unable to access articles that would otherwise benefit their professional practice. Moreover, students and researchers in the developing world are excluded from participating in (and citing) the latest scholarly discourse. As journal subscription costs continue to rise at an unsustainable rate (Bosch &amp; Henderson, 2016), forcing academic libraries to cancel large journal packages, the article paywall problem has increasingly come to affect even researchers at affluent institutions in the developed world.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2918290 2021-03-17T13:31:17-04:00 2021-03-17T13:32:35-04:00

<p>HOBOKEN, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--John Wiley and Sons Inc. (NYSE:JWa) (NYSE:JWb), the Austrian Academic Library Consortium (KEMÖ) and the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) today announced a three-year combined open access publication and subscription agreement. This transformative agreement will provide researchers and students at 22 institutions affiliated with KEMÖ access to all subscription journals published by Wiley. Corresponding authors from KEMÖ-affiliated institutions will also be able to publish unlimited open access articles in Wiley's hybrid journals at no charge to the author.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2242616 2017-07-10T13:43:09-04:00 2020-11-18T16:26:52-05:00

<p> </p> <p><span>"OALib is currently hosting links and metadata to more than 5,255,487 open access articles covering a wide range of academic disciplines. All full text articles from your search results are free to download."</span></p> <p><span></span></p> <p> </p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2918252 2021-03-17T12:39:23-04:00 2021-03-17T12:39:23-04:00

<p>The American Physical Society (APS) and The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), as the Host Organization of SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics), are pleased to announce that they have entered into an agreement to publish high-energy physics (HEP) articles in three leading journals of the APS - Physical Review Letters, Physical Review D, and Physical Review C -- under an open access agreement. Under this agreement, authors of articles having a primary designation of "high energy physics" on arXiv will bear no direct cost to publish articles open access in these APS journals, effective January 1, 2018.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2828049 2020-12-01T16:22:16-05:00 2020-12-02T08:48:14-05:00

<p>Your scientific research results will only change the world if they are effectively shared with the rest of the scientific community and with the world. Sharing our research is, of course, why we publish in peer-reviewed journals.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2918563 2021-03-17T16:58:21-04:00 2021-03-17T17:00:05-04:00

<p>Hoboken, NJ - 5 April 2017 - John Wiley and Sons, Inc. (NYSE: JWa and JWb) is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new open access journal, Health Science Reports. Dedicated to providing exceptional author service through swift evaluation of existing reviews, Health Science Reports will publish peer-reviewed scientifically sound research across the entire spectrum of the medical and clinical sciences.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2829530 2020-12-03T14:59:48-05:00 2020-12-03T14:59:48-05:00

<p>A commentary published recently in The Journal of Wildlife Management argued that open access publication has strong negative implications for the future of science. Unfortunately, that commentary was founded in serious and deep misconceptions about the distinctions between open access, commercial, and society publications, and the rigor of peer review in open access journals. To the contrary, open access responds more appropriately than traditional closed publishing venues to the needs and participation of an increasingly global scholarly research community, and peer review by a broader community may in many cases be more rigorous, responding to the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of modern research. We respectfully suggest that The Wildlife Society consider a transition from closed access to open access for The Journal of Wildlife Management, as a means of optimizing and maximizing its role in communications in the field. </p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2828051 2020-12-01T16:27:24-05:00 2020-12-02T08:36:54-05:00

<p>Abstract:  Ongoing debates surrounding Open Access to the scholarly literature are multifaceted and complicated by disparate and often polarised viewpoints from engaged stakeholders. At the current stage, Open Access has become such a global issue that it is critical for all involved in scholarly publishing, including policymakers, publishers, research funders, governments, learned societies, librarians, and academic communities, to be well-informed on the history, benefits, and pitfalls of Open Access. In spite of this, there is a general lack of consensus regarding the potential pros and cons of Open Access at multiple levels. This review aims to be a resource for current knowledge on the impacts of Open Access by synthesizing important research in three major areas: academic, economic and societal. While there is clearly much scope for additional research, several key trends are identified, including a broad citation advantage for researchers who publish openly, as well as additional benefits to the non-academic dissemination of their work. The economic impact of Open Access is less well-understood, although it is clear that access to the research literature is key for innovative enterprises, and a range of governmental and non-governmental services. Furthermore, Open Access has the potential to save both publishers and research funders considerable amounts of financial resources, and can provide some economic benefits to traditionally subscription-based journals. The societal impact of Open Access is strong, in particular for advancing citizen science initiatives, and leveling the playing field for researchers in developing countries. Open Access supersedes all potential alternative modes of access to the scholarly literature through enabling unrestricted re-use, and long-term stability independent of financial constraints of traditional publishers that impede knowledge sharing. However, Open Access has the potential to become unsustainable for research communities if high-cost options are allowed to continue to prevail in a widely unregulated scholarly publishing market. Open Access remains only one of the multiple challenges that the scholarly publishing system is currently facing. Yet, it provides one foundation for increasing engagement with researchers regarding ethical standards of publishing and the broader implications of 'Open Research'.</p> <p> </p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2828048 2020-12-01T16:18:45-05:00 2020-12-02T08:51:04-05:00

<p>Open is better than closed. That rule applies for a lot of things: presents, beer, restaurants. And, many argue, science.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2834635 2020-12-10T09:57:58-05:00 2020-12-10T10:01:00-05:00

<p>If you work in a university, you are almost certain to have heard the term 'open access' in the past couple of years. You may also have heard either that it is the utopian answer to all the problems of research dissemination or perhaps that it marks the beginning of an apocalyptic new era of 'pay-to-say' publishing. In this book, Martin Paul Eve sets out the histories, contexts and controversies for open access, specifically in the humanities. Broaching practical elements alongside economic histories, open licensing, monographs and funder policies, this book is a must-read for both those new to ideas about open-access scholarly communications and those with an already keen interest in the latest developments for the humanities. This title is also available as Open Access via Cambridge Books Online.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2829412 2020-12-03T12:55:38-05:00 2020-12-04T09:49:51-05:00

<p>Librarian Jill Cirasella describes some problems with the traditional system of scholarly journal publishing and explains how scholars can make their works open access, or freely available online. She discusses some of the benefits of open access, as well as some of the challenges to achieving widespread openness.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2827853 2020-12-01T13:31:02-05:00 2020-12-02T08:56:08-05:00

<p>The UK government's favoured route to open-access publishing puts unacceptable strains on research budgets at a time of funding shortages, says a parliamentary report released today. It also calls for more transparency and competition in the costs of publishing research.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2829432 2020-12-03T13:39:37-05:00 2020-12-04T08:57:00-05:00

<p>Abstract:  Open access publishing is increasing across many fields as a means of facilitating timely and equitable access to knowledge. To examine the extent of open access in social work serials publishing, we gathered information on the subscription costs and access policies of 81 peer-reviewed social work journals. Although some trends toward increased access are noted, such as publishers’ acceptance of university archiving policies, the majority of journals provided no or minimal open access. Average annual subscription prices based on 2011 data were $126 for individuals and $579 for institutions for print and online access. Our review located 11 social work journals that are fully open access. In light of these findings, we review the importance of open access for facilitating social work research and evidence-based practice, and describe possible steps toward expanding access in the context of conflicts between the increasing corporatization of publishing and the growing recognition of knowledge as a common good. From this perspective, research findings should be broadly available regardless of socio-economic advantage or development status. Much of this research has been supported through public funding, and knowledge important to human social welfare should not be withheld as proprietary.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2824409 2020-11-26T10:04:23-05:00 2020-11-27T08:45:10-05:00

<p>"When e-mail first became available, it was a great innovation that made communication fast and cheap. Then came spam — and suddenly, the innovation wasn’t so great. It meant having to filter out irrelevant, deceptive and sometimes offensive messages. It still does.</p> <p>The same corruption of a great idea is now occurring with scholarly open-access publishing.</p> <p>Early experiments with open-access publishing, such as the <em>Journal of Medical Internet Research</em> and BioMed Central, were very promising. Set up more than a decade ago, they helped to inspire a social movement that has changed academic publishing for the better, lowered costs and expanded worldwide access to the latest research.</p> <p>Then came predatory publishers, which publish counterfeit journals to exploit the open-access model in which the author pays. These predatory publishers are dishonest and lack transparency. They aim to dupe researchers, especially those inexperienced in scholarly communication. They set up websites that closely resemble those of legitimate online publishers, and publish journals of questionable and downright low quality. Many purport to be headquartered in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada or Australia but really hail from Pakistan, India or Nigeria...."</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/33336 2012-07-31T16:46:43-04:00 2020-11-19T08:29:58-05:00 petersuber

<p>"Access to scientific literature is very important for the scientific work in developing countries . As a result of different projects a large collection of e-journals is now available for researchers in developing countries. The number of Open Access Journals is growing steadily as we can see in the Directory of Open Access Journals. Major UNO organizations like WHO, FAO and UNEP have their specific programs for the scientific institutions in low-income countries. Finally a lot of universities, institutes and other organizations are supporting access programs. The most important are INASP, eIFL and eJDS...."</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/43974 2012-09-17T05:13:52-04:00 2020-12-01T16:38:35-05:00 nancypontika

<p>From the abstract:"This article presents results of a survey undertaken as part of a series of work packages under a joint initiative by JISC and SURF to explore the attitudes of authors in the UK and the Netherlands towards Open Access."</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2827856 2020-12-01T13:34:44-05:00 2020-12-02T08:53:56-05:00

<p>Abstract:  Building on previous work, this summary looks at the costs and potential benefits of alternative models for scientific and scholarly publishing in three European countries. The work began in Australia in 2006 with a study of Research Communication Costs, Emerging Opportunities and Benefits (Houghton et al. 2006). This was followed by a major study of the Economic Implications of Alternative Scholarly Publishing Models for the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) in the UK (Houghton et al. and Oppenheim et al. 2009). We have since applied the same basic approach to exploring the costs and benefits of alternative publishing models in the Netherlands (Houghton et al. 2009) and Denmark (Houghton 2009), giving a sense of the implications of open access scholarly publishing for one of the larger, a mid-sized and a smaller European country.</p> <p> </p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/48529 2012-10-07T19:53:55-04:00 2020-11-24T16:35:39-05:00 gavinbaker

<p>The Right to Research Coalition was founded by students in the summer of 2009 to promote an open scholarly publishing system based on the belief that no student should be denied access to the articles they need because their institution cannot afford the often high cost of access.  Since its launch, the Coalition has grown to represent nearly 7 million students internationally and counts among its members the largest student organizations in both the United States and Canada.  While the Coalition currently has a strong base in North America, it is by no means solely a North American organization and is expanding to incorporate student organizations from around the world.</p>

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<p>Objective To measure the effect of free access to the scientific literature on article downloads and citations.</p> <p>Design Randomised controlled trial.</p> <p>Setting 11 journals published by the American Physiological Society.</p> <p>Participants 1619 research articles and reviews.</p> <p>Main outcome measures Article readership (measured as downloads of full text, PDFs, and abstracts) and number of unique visitors (internet protocol addresses). Citations to articles were gathered from the Institute for Scientific Information after one year.</p> <p>Interventions Random assignment on online publication of articles published in 11 scientific journals to open access (treatment) or subscription access (control).</p> <p>Results Articles assigned to open access were associated with 89% more full text downloads (95% confidence interval 76% to 103%), 42% more PDF downloads (32% to 52%), and 23% more unique visitors (16% to 30%), but 24% fewer abstract downloads (−29% to −19%) than subscription access articles in the first six months after publication. Open access articles were no more likely to be cited than subscription access articles in the first year after publication. Fifty nine per cent of open access articles (146 of 247) were cited nine to 12 months after publication compared with 63% (859 of 1372) of subscription access articles. Logistic and negative binomial regression analysis of article citation counts confirmed no citation advantage for open access articles.</p> <p>Conclusions Open access publishing may reach more readers than subscription access publishing. No evidence was found of a citation advantage for open access articles in the first year after publication. The citation advantage from open access reported widely in the literature may be an artefact of other causes.</p>

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<p>Estuaries and Coasts begins a three-year trial period with this issue in which authors can, by paying an open access fee, have their articles available online to all viewers. Because journals cannot rely of continuing subscription revenues if their articles are already freely available online, open access fees will be expected to cover the costs of production so that the journal will remain financially viable even when subscription revenues are no longer present. Our transition from a subscription-based budget to one in which open access fees cover production costs will include fee discounts for authors who are members of the Estuarine Research Federation and whose institutions have current subscriptions to the journal in recognition that these sources of revenue now support publication of the journal.</p>