Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
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A Simple Definition For Open Access: A Proposal To Open The Discussion
This post proposes a shift from the detailed BBB definition of open access to Peter Suber's brief definition, as follows: Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions (from Suber's Open Access Overview). Read More »
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A World Of Open Access
[Few] people have looked closely at the data on open access; probably because most people are still in debate about the merits and pitfalls of open access itself. The simple fact is that open access publishing is having a major impact on academia and the biggest journal in the world (by volume of papers) is now PLoS ONE, an open access title [...]. Read More »
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AAAS, Publisher of Science, Acquires Peer Review Evaluation (PRE) Service to Help Promote Transparency and Public Trust in Science
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), publisher of the Science family of journals, today announced the acquisition of "Peer Review Evaluation" (PRE), a web-based service that promotes public trust in science by making the review of original research more transparent and verifiable. Offering benefits to readers, publishers, and authors, PRE can be customized to display details about how research articles have been assessed. "By presenting users with a simple visual `badge,' the PRE technology provides information about each step in the peer-review process and the practices and values of journals," Science Publisher Kent Anderson said. "In this way, PRE will make it easier for everyone to identify articles from legitimate scientific journals and to understand the peer-review history in more detail."
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Critics Say Sting On Open-Access Journals Misses Larger Point
Perhaps months from now, when the dust settles and academics really look back at it, they’ll find some hard lessons in the elaborate Science magazine exposé this week by the journalist John Bohannon. Read More »
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DOAJ Hits 1.5 MILLION Mark!
DOAJ reaches another milestone in 2013 Read More »
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Dramatic Growth of Open Access
Kudos to the Directory of Open Access Journals for an oustanding second quarter! In the past few months, DOAJ has added 912 titles for a total of 9,759 journals. Read More »
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Dramatic Growth Of Open Access 2013 First Quarter: Comparisons
This issue features a comparison of open access growth including CC-BY article growth figures supplied by OASPA. [...] Recent research suggests that CC-BY is the preference of a small minority of scholars. Read More »
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Dramatic Growth of Open Access First Quarter 2014
Highlights this quarter: three open access initiatives illustrating particularly strong growth this quarter are featured (Directory of Open Access Books, Highwire Press free sites, and PubMedCentral with 5 of the top 15 spots by quarterly growth rate). The number of journals in DOAJ has decreased this quarter; please note that this reflects a vigorous weeding process at DOAJ rather than a decrease in fully open access journals.
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Dramatic Growth of Open Access in 2012
2012 was another awesome year for open access!. This post highlights and celebrates just how much open access is available already. This post highlights and celebrates just how much open access is available already. The Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) cross-searches over 40 million documents in over 2,400 repositories - nearly double the number in just 3 years, demonstrating yet again strong growth in open access archiving. Read More »
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Hard Evidence: Is Open Access Working?
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 »
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New Resource Aims To Provide Quality Insight Into OA Resources
Ever since the concept of open-access journals began gathering steam, the question of journal quality has been an issue for sceptics and advocates alike. It has become a normal part of our daily lives to delete emails inviting submissions to a new open-access journal with obscure origins and questionable relevance to the email recipient.
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NOW AVAILABLE: March 31 Issue Of "Dramatic Growth Of Open Access"
The March 31 issue of Dramatic Growth of Open Access features a comparison of open access growth including CC-BY article growth figures supplied by OASPA. [...] Recent research suggests that CC-BY is the preference of a small minority of scholars. Read More »
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OASPA’s Response To The Recent Article In Science Entitled “Who’s Afraid Of Peer Review?”
Below is a statement from the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) in response to the recent “sting” that was reported in Science in an article entitled “Who’s Afraid of Peer Review?” Read More »
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One Size Fits All?: Social Science And Open Access
The third post in our small series on open access, publication shifts on the horizon and how it all matters to IR and social science, this time by David Mainwaring [...]. Read More »
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Open Access In EU Finally On The Horizon?
Discussions on the cost of access to articles in scholarly journals have been rocking the international media in the past months – everywhere from the Economist to the New York Times. The proverbial genie has left the bottle, everyday more researchers, students, and policymakers are realizing how unsustainable today’s way of publishing research has become... Read More »
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