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A Conversation With BioMed Central’s Cockerill On Open Access Publishing
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 »
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Browse Your Library’s e-Journals On Your Device With BrowZine
Review of BrowZine for iPhone, iPad, and Android...
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Data miners strike gold on copyright
In a significant victory for data miners, the open access publisher BioMed Central is to waive all copyright over datasets it publishes. Read More »
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Death Of An Open-Access Activist
The tragic suicide of a well-known Internet open-access advocate has sparked protests against the highly protected system that limits public access to knowledge. Read More »
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Dutch Universities Dig In For Long Fight Over Open Access
Dutch universities have vowed not to soften their groundbreaking demands for publishers to permit all papers published by their academics to be made open access for no extra charge...
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Elsevier Costs Too Much
When journals evolved from exclusive print formats into some variety of electronic hybrid, librarians valued the extra service their formats offered, and we justified paying more for them... Read More »
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High-Quality Science Benefits All
Open access publishing can help researchers in the developing world to participate more actively in the scientific community. Alexander Brown from Springer shares his experience. Read More »
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Open Access 2015: A Year Access Negotiators Edged Closer to the Tipping Point
It’s the year many negotiators got seriously tough on double dipping – charging for both the ability to read (via subscriptions) and for publishing (author processing charges, or APCs). Last year it was France getting tough on the toughest negotiator: Elsevier. This year, the Netherlands took it right to the brink of cutting Elsevier loose. It was summed up by a January headline: “Dutch universities dig in for long fight over open access.” Coming into the new year, other nations were taking up positions about the future they want to see too...Here’s a month-by-month roundup of some of the major action...
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Open access is a development issue – the status quo needs to be challenged
South Africa is doing some amazing research but cannot share it globally because of restrictive copyright laws or unreasonable policies and embargo periods set by publishers. South African authors cannot become known and cited if their works are locked up behind expensive paywalls, accessible only to a limited audience. South African students and researchers also need access to the best international and local up-to-date journals, books and other research to be able to contribute new knowledge in their fields. This is the reason open access is so crucial for South Africa and other developing countries.
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Open Access Scientific Publishing is Gaining Ground
At the beginning of April, Research Councils UK, a conduit through which the government transmits taxpayers’ money to academic researchers, changed the rules on how the results of studies it pays for are made public. From now on they will have to be published in journals that make them available free—preferably immediately, but certainly within a year. Read More »
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Open Access: Brought To Book At Last?
A library-focused effort aims to take monographs off the analogue shelf Read More »
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Open Access: Credit Where Credit Is Due
The monetary incentive for author-pays journals is towards accepting as many papers as possible, which obiously conflicts with the reputational incentive of only accepting "good" papers Read More »
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Open Access: Springer Tightens Rules On Self-Archiving
Last month Danny Kingsley — Executive Officer of the Australian Open Access Support Group (AOASG) — highlighted a number of publishers that have recently changed their self-archiving (Green OA) policies. Amongst those named by Kingsley was Springer [...]. Read More »
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PeerJ Leads A High-Quality, Low-Cost New Breed Of Open-Access Publisher
A one-off fee allows researchers to publish as many papers as they like. The first open access PeerJ articles appear today Read More »
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Publishing And The POOC, Or, Why We Need Open Access
Isn’t everything up on the internet for free? Yes, most new books and articles appear in digital format, but NO-O-O they’re not (yet) mostly free. Libraries pay big bucks to license them, and the licenses require libraries to restrict access to narrow audiences (students, faculty, or people physically inside the library). Read More »
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