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5 Annoying Things About Open Access
To start, I should say that all at Europe PMC support Open Access. This is just a short list of some issues that can be frustrating… Read More »
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Access To Research - Comment
Research Councils UK (RCUK), a partnership of the UK's seven Research Councils recently announced a new access policy for the research they fund. Alexandra Saxon explains the new policy and what it means for researchers. Read More »
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Access To Research Comes At A Price
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 »
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Advanced Open Access Publishing Model
There are two main modes of open access publishing – Green Open Access, where the author has the right to provide free access to the article outside the publisher's web site in a repository or on his/her own website, and Gold Open Access, where articles are available for free download directly from the publisher on the day of publication. Read More »
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As Costs For Academic Journals Stay High, Universities Look To Open Access
The high costs to access peer-reviewed research is forcing academics to take a hard look at how scholarly work should be distributed in the future and, so far, the most promising alternative is to post online for free. Read More »
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Beall’s List Of Predatory Publishers 2013
The gold open-access model has given rise to a great many new online publishers. Many of these publishers are corrupt and exist only to make money off the author processing charges that are billed to authors upon acceptance of their scientific manuscripts. Read More »
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BIS Select Committee: Government 'Wrong On Gold Open Access'
The Business, Innovation and Skills select committee has criticised the government's preference for gold open access publishing over the five-year transition period to open access. Read More »
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Chipping Into The Debate On Open Access
As the incoming co-editor of the Journal of Material Culture, as well as one of the editors here at Material World Blog, I have been involved in many conversations regarding the politics, economics, and materiality of Open Access. Read More »
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COAR Response To EC Communication And Recommendation
COAR acknowledges and very much supports the open access vision of the EU Commission as a worldwide trend and will join the EU Commission effort to develop an interoperable and sustainable global scientific infrastructure and to inspire other countries in the world to develop their own open access policies.
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CORE: Three Access Levels To Underpin Open Access
The last 10 years have seen a massive increase in the amount of Open Access publications in journals and institutional repositories. The open availability of large volumes of state-of-the-art knowledge online has the potential to provide huge savings and benefits in many fields. However, in order to fully leverage this knowledge, it is necessary to develop [certain] systems... Read More »
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Degrees Of Disruption
Supporters of open-access journals and massive open online courses have been quick to label their initiatives disruptive, but a recent analysis by a York University professor suggests only one of them has the potential to spark considerable change, while the other is likely to remain an alternative alongside traditional offerings. Read More »
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Europe moves closer to open access (OA) publishing
The UK government declared that all papers funded by its research agencies would have to be Open Access (OA) by April 2013, and the European Commission (EC) made a similar announcement for 2014 regarding its billion-euro Horizon 2020 research program. Read More »
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Explaining Open Access Journals With The Language Of Math (For Those Who Like That Sort Of Thing)
In my experience, the #1 confusion about open access journals (that is, “gold” open access journals, or journals that are made fully and immediately open access by their publishers) is the meaning of the word “open.” Some mistakenly think that “open” has to do with how easy it is to publish in those journals. But that is decidedly not the case... Read More »
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Finch Access Plan Unlikely To Fly Across The Atlantic
Felice Levine, executive director of learned society the American Educational Research Association, told the Academy of Social Science's Implementing Finch conference last week that the Finch report on open access had been "noticed" in the US. Read More »
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Free Papers Have Reached A Tipping Point, Study Claims
Efforts to give the public free access to peer-reviewed papers have reached a milestone: One-half of all papers are now freely available within a year or two of publication, concludes a study funded by the European Commission and released today. [...] Read More »
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