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'Paying It Forward' Publishing

Carl Straumsheim | Inside Higher Ed | February 10, 2015

The University of California Press is building a new open-access publishing model around the idea that reviewers and researchers in the hard sciences can support new forms of scholarly communication by "paying it forward." The university press last month introduced Collabra and Luminos, an open-access journal and monograph publisher, respectively. While Luminos is hoping to publish about 10 monographs this fall, Collabra is in beta testing and aims to accept submissions in a few weeks. Read More »

A Conversation With BioMed Central’s Cockerill On Open Access Publishing

Abby Clobridge | Information Today, Inc | November 12, 2013

BioMed Central (BMC), one of the leading open access (OA) and STM publishers, announced in mid-September that Matthew Cockerill, managing director, would be leaving the company at the end of the year. BMC was founded in 2000 and was acquired by Springer Science+Business Media in 2008. Last month, I had a chance to sit down with Cockerill to talk about some of his experiences with OA and STM publishing. Read More »

Academics Urge Peers To Self-Publish Research

Benedicte Page | The Bookseller | January 11, 2013

Academics are looking to their own Open Access ventures to create new spaces for monograph publishing, a conference on OA in the humanities and social sciences heard last week. Read More »

Access To Research Comes At A Price

Chris Flegg | Financial Times | October 23, 2013

In 2008, the Sainsbury Library at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, with a number of specially selected libraries, was “invited” to take part in a “pilot” to pay EBSCO, the journal aggregator, an additional amount of money for the privilege of using URLs to point to Harvard content contained in our existing subscriptions. The Sainsbury Library refused... Read More »

Copyright Clearance Center Hosts Open Access Forum In London

Press Release | Copyright Clearance Center | March 19, 2013

Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a not-for-profit organization and leading provider of licensing and Open Access solutions, hosted “A Copyright Clearance Center Roundtable: Open Access Publishing and the Role of Intermediaries.” Read More »

Hard Evidence: Is Open Access Working?

Ernesto Priego | The Conversation | October 23, 2013

According to Peter Suber open access is academic literature which is “digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions". Open access delivered by journals is called “gold” open access and open access delivered by repositories is called “green” open access. [...] Read More »

Hiding Your Research Behind A Paywall Is Immoral

Mike Taylor | The Guardian | January 17, 2013

As a scientist your job is to bring new knowledge into the world. Hiding it behind a journal's paywall is unacceptable Read More »

No Publication Fee For MEDLINE/ISI Indexed Journals During Open Access Week

Press Release | OMICS Group | October 16, 2013

OMICS Group International celebrates Open Access Week from 21st October - 27th October 2013 on a grand platform, as it is committed to promoting the scientific knowledge propagation worldwide through its 'Open Access' Journals and conferences. OMICS Group feels pride to announce OPEN ACCESS week to facilitate advancement of research and its dissemination. Read More »

Open Access: Six Myths To Put To Rest

Peter Suber | The Guardian | October 21, 2013

Open access to academic research has never been a hotter topic. But it's still held back by myths and misunderstandings repeated by people who should know better. The good news is that open access has been successful enough to attract comment from beyond its circle of pioneers and experts. The bad news is that a disappointing number of policy-makers, journalists and academics opine in public without doing their homework. Read More »

PeerJ Leads A High-Quality, Low-Cost New Breed Of Open-Access Publisher

Mike Taylor | The Guardian | February 12, 2013

A one-off fee allows researchers to publish as many papers as they like. The first open access PeerJ articles appear today Read More »

The Institution Of Engineering And Technology Signs With Copyright Clearance Center

Press Release | Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) | April 29, 2013

The First Not-for-Profit Engineering Publisher to Offer Open Access Journal Articles Implements RightsLink® for Open Access to Manage Article Processing Charges for All Publications Read More »

Wolters Kluwer Health Transitions The Journal Medicine To Fully Open Access, Broad-Based Biomedical Title In 2015

Press Release | Medicine, Wolters Kluwer Health (WKH) | February 5, 2014

Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, today announced that Medicine, one of the most respected and frequently cited journals in general medicine, will transition to an open access publication from a subscription-based model. Read More »