Items tagged by pbmarkin in Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) https://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/user/pbmarkin TagTeam social RSS aggregrator Wed, 13 Oct 2021 00:53:00 -0400 https://openresearch.community/posts/a-quick-walkthrough-of-ku-s-pledging-options-in-2021-north-america-9216e835-1af1-4c23-8d5f-64ff2a5eccb7? oa.new oa.events oa.knowledge_unlatched oa.ku The National Library of Indonesia is currently providing free access to digital books to the public through the iPusnas online library, academic journal online library, and Nusantara ancient scripts online repository Khastara. Thu, 02 Sep 2021 00:34:00 -0400 https://en.antaranews.com/news/185770/libraries-open-digital-access-to-promote-reading oa.new oa.libraries oa.indonesia oa.south Perhaps no other issue involving OERs is more relevant and affecting more users, including faculty, than discoverability. All other potential issues aside, the sheer ability to keep up and filter through thousands of OERs is a skill in and of itself. OERs continue to grow at a staggering pace. Wed, 01 Sep 2021 03:10:00 -0400 https://openresearch.community/posts/open-educational-resources-the-story-of-change-and-evolving-perceptions oa.new oa.oer oa.growth oa.discoverability oa.attitudes A list of upcoming webinars by Knowledge Unlatched. Tue, 01 Jun 2021 03:54:00 -0400 https://knowledgeunlatched.org/webinars/ oa.new oa.events oa.knowledge_unlatched oa.ku Whereas transformational frameworks contribute to the transitioning of scholarly journal publishing to Open Access, their short-term, widely varied nature complexifies the attendant workflow management and introduces budgeting uncertainty for participating institutions. Fri, 14 May 2021 05:28:00 -0400 https://openresearch.community/posts/despite-their-significant-growth-transformative-open-access-agreements-can-be-expected-to-coexist-with-subscription-models oa.new oa.agreements oa.gold oa.journals oa.offsets oa.business_models oa.hybrid This Against the Grain podcast installment presents a conversation with Philip Hess, Knowledge Unlatched, and Marcel Wrzesinski, Open Access Officer, Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society about their recent Open Access project. Wed, 05 May 2021 04:33:00 -0400 https://openresearch.community/posts/the-implications-of-open-access-for-small-scale-scholar-led-apc-free-scholarly-journals-in-germany oa.new oa.germany oa.academic_led oa.gold oa.no-fee oa.journals By sampling data in the field of chemistry, the working paper by Haucap et al. (2021) suggests that the Project DEAL agreement between German universities and institutes and large international publishers, e.g., Springer Nature, is likely to contribute to their market power. Tue, 20 Apr 2021 09:59:00 -0400 https://openresearch.community/posts/recent-findings-indicate-that-country-level-open-access-frameworks-are-likely-to-increase-concentration-in-the-publishing-market oa.new oa.publishers oa.libraries oa.risks oa.monopoly oa.projekt_deal oa.economics_of oa.markets Whereas an OASPA webinar, from late March 2021, has concentrated on Australia’s transition to Open Access, it has also indicated a peak in its Open Access output occurring in 2018. This is similar to the degrowth tendencies setting in across some other countries in two recent years. Tue, 06 Apr 2021 04:10:00 -0400 https://openresearch.community/posts/the-country-level-degrowth-of-open-access-comparative-findings-indicate-the-presence-of-dissimilar-dynamics-across-models oa.new oa.gold oa.green oa.countries oa.repositories oa.journals oa.growth oa.comparisons oa.negative A recent post discussing the expected impact of Open Access policies on the main players in the British publishing market has focused on the global implications of the growth in the Open Access sector for libraries and publishers Thu, 25 Mar 2021 08:34:00 -0400 https://openresearch.community/rooms/826-country-spotlights-and-cross-country-comparisons/conversations/34287 oa.new oa.uk oa.players oa.policies oa.mandates oa.publishers oa.libraries A recent analysis outlining alternative scenarios for the publishing market development in the United Kingdom (UK) suggests a strong likelihood of lose-lose outcomes for publishers and universities for mandate-driven transitions to Open Access. Tue, 23 Mar 2021 04:58:00 -0400 https://openresearch.community/posts/gold-open-access-mandates-may-be-associated-with-publisher-revenue-losses-and-library-cost-increases oa.new oa.gold oa.publishers oa.libraries oa.journals oa.mandates oa.economics_of oa.budgets oa.uk oa.ukri oa.policies oa.revenues oa.publishers_association In his recent editorial article, Bo-Christer Björk (2021) has sought to explain the high costs that publishing in scholarly journals entails, while applying Michael Porter’s five forces model and a qualitative comparative analysis framework, such as in relation to other industries. Wed, 10 Mar 2021 07:53:00 -0500 https://openresearch.community/posts/the-application-of-porter-s-five-forces-model-to-the-journal-publishing-market-from-a-comparative-perspective oa.new oa.publishers oa.markets oa.journals oa.publishing oa.costs oa.economics_of oa.monopoly oa.comparisons Whereas a comprehensive overview of the history of preprint servers indicates their explosive growth over recent decades, empirical findings also show that, in the almost frictionless market of preprint publishing, concentration and convergence dynamics are at play. Fri, 26 Feb 2021 03:59:00 -0500 https://openresearch.community/posts/the-evolution-of-preprints-as-an-open-access-format-for-scholarly-publishing-market-forces-and-recent-developments oa.new oa.preprints oa.markets oa.growth oa.citations oa.impact oa.versions Beyond the contribution that the Plan S can be expected to make to the adoption of transformative Open Access agreements by libraries and publishers alike, as the article by Bianco and Patrizii (2020, p. 60) shows, it is notable that it can be considered as a market intervention. Fri, 12 Feb 2021 00:13:00 -0500 https://openresearch.community/rooms/832-open-access-policies-and-their-implementation/conversations/32770 oa.new oa.plan_s oa.publishing oa.markets On the one hand, the ongoing pandemic has put preprint servers into the media spotlight that has been suggesting a decisive turn in favor of Open Access in 2020. On the other hand, for individual scholarly fields, long-term data show that Open Access output has peaked in 2014-2017. Fri, 05 Feb 2021 03:20:00 -0500 https://openresearch.community/posts/peak-open-access-for-some-scholarly-fields-the-growth-in-openly-accessible-output-has-stalled-in-recent-years oa.new oa.adoption oa.fees oa.obstacles oa.speed oa.negative oa.disciplines oa.gold oa.journals Whereas opinions can diverge on whether the Covid-19 pandemic represents a watershed moment for the publishing market on a macro level, it is as likely that local publishing markets act as decisive environments for micro-level decisions of its constitutive players. Mon, 25 Jan 2021 03:35:00 -0500 https://openresearch.community/posts/preprint-servers-resource-allocation-conditions-and-market-shocks oa.new oa.players oa.libraries oa.publishers oa.markets oa.preprints oa.repositories oa.repositories.preprints oa.versions Whereas the proponents of Open Access emphasize the cost efficiencies that make its models possible, it is as likely that its rise is largely driven by market mechanisms affecting both the supply and demand side of the scholarly publishing industry. Fri, 15 Jan 2021 07:35:00 -0500 https://openresearch.community/posts/open-access-public-goods-and-market-players oa.new oa.players oa.demand oa.supply oa.public_good oa.markets oa.economics_of In his address to the 2021 APE conference, the Springer Nature CEO makes a case for gold over green open access. Wed, 13 Jan 2021 01:25:00 -0500 https://publishingperspectives.com/2021/01/springer-nature-vrancken-peeters-at-academic-publishing-in-europe-trust-is-the-basis/ oa.new oa.publishers oa.gold oa.green oa.repositories oa.journals oa.business_models oa.springer_nature oa.people oa.offsets This is an Introduction to  Open Access course that presents the theoretical origins of Open Access. Though it is free of charge, it requires platform registration, as it generates a completion certificate. Tue, 12 Jan 2021 06:31:00 -0500 https://openresearch.community/courses/563 oa.orc oa.oer oa.courses oa.courseware oa.moocs oa.intro oa.training Formally launched in March 2020, the Open Research Community has steadily evolved over the past year. Mon, 11 Jan 2021 08:27:00 -0500 https://openresearch.community/posts/the-open-research-community-in-2020-a-year-in-review oa.new oa.platforms oa.orc South Korea’s National Research Council of Science & 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. Sat, 19 Dec 2020 01:48:00 -0500 https://www.elsevier.com/about/press-releases/corporate/nst-and-elsevier-sign-pilot-agreement-to-support-open-access-publishing-alongside-continued-research-access-in-south-korea2 oa.new oa.south_korea oa.elsevier oa.agreements oa.offsets oa.asia funders, be they national or private, should consider directly funding their field through funding societies and institutions, with a focus on equitable distribution of funds across scholarly communities. Such an approach would temper the impact of the new status quo — the inexorable rise of the transformative agreement, which systematically disadvantages scholars at less wealthy institutions. Wed, 16 Dec 2020 03:00:00 -0500 https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2020/12/16/transformative-agreements-funders-and-the-publishing-ecosystem-a-lack-of-focus-on-equity/?informz=1 oa.new oa.agreements oa.funders oa.offsets oa.dei oa.objections oa.debates Open Access content involves multiple constituencies that converge or diverge based on the priorities, needs and roles of their constituent agents likely having dissimilar perspectives on the publishing sector. Tue, 15 Dec 2020 07:33:00 -0500 https://openresearch.community/posts/overlapping-lay-and-professional-constituencies-of-open-access-publishing-in-specialized-research-domains oa.new oa.stakeholders oa.constituencies oa.lay If the paywall sites are going to attract more consumers, and provide them safe harbor from the free-news vortex, then Radcliffe says they’ll need to make a better case for why it’s worth the money. That means letting people know the actual cost of producing journalism, and what’s at risk if you don’t financially support it. Otherwise, big publications will only serve a minority of the population, small publications will struggle to survive, and people who have grown accustomed to free news will continue to seek it out, even if it ends up not really being news at all. Thu, 10 Dec 2020 03:52:00 -0500 https://www.wired.com/story/paywalls-newsletters-and-the-new-echo-chamber/ oa.new oa.paywalls oa.news oa.journalism oa.business_models 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. Tue, 08 Dec 2020 06:12:00 -0500 https://www.heraldmailmedia.com/news/state/open-access-book-revenue-fell-pre-covid-19/article_d9545077-4cf8-5f69-944d-f7d12e240070.html oa.covid oa.new oa.books oa.economics_of oa.markets oa.revenues Taking place in a digital format, the most recent edition of the Frankfurt Academic Conference has overviewed key topics for publishers, such as Open Access, as they seek to maintain relationships with their stakeholders around the world, e.g., via online communities. Tue, 08 Dec 2020 04:02:00 -0500 https://openresearch.community/posts/the-2020-installment-of-the-frankfurt-academic-conference-shines-a-spotlight-on-open-access oa.new oa.events oa.germany As the due date for the Plan S mandates approaches, an institution-level perspective on its implications indicates that, via local funder and organizational support, the adoption of Open Access can exceed expectations. Mon, 07 Dec 2020 06:43:00 -0500 https://openresearch.community/posts/the-university-of-vienna-s-perspective-on-the-plan-s-open-access-mandate-compliance oa.mandates oa.universities oa.plan_s oa.hei oa.policies oa.new oa.u.vienna oa.compliance A recent international, collaborative study indicates that millennial-generation researchers are highly aware of both advantages and limitations of Open Access publishing. Mon, 07 Dec 2020 03:30:00 -0500 https://openresearch.community/posts/early-career-researchers-demonstrate-an-awareness-of-open-access-country-and-discipline-level-variation-in-its-adoption oa.attitudes oa.countries oa.new oa.ecr oa.disciplines oa.surveys oa.benefits oa.risks oa.comparisons