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Information Today
February 2007
Miriam A. Drake |
Scholarly Communication in Turmoil Two leading experts provide some insight into scholarly publishing now and in the future.   |
Information Today
September 21, 2009
Robin Peek |
A Compact for Open Access Publication Announced Open-access publishing promises to put more research in more hands and in more places around the world. This is a good enough reason for universities to embrace the guiding principles of this compact. |
Information Today
October 2004
Richard Poynder |
Poynder On Point: Ten Years After A decade after professor Stevan Harnad posted what he called a "subversive proposal" to the Electronic Journals mailing list at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, open access (OA) is now threatening to overturn the $6 billion scholarly publishing industry and is forcing even the largest publishers against the ropes. |
Information Today
September 17, 2012 |
Diverse OA Coalition Issues New Guidelines to Make Research Freely Available The recommendations were developed by leaders of the open access movement, which has worked for the past decade to provide the public with unrestricted, free access to scholarly research -- much of which is publicly funded. |
ONLINE
Mar/Apr 2005
David Stern |
Open Access or Differential Pricing for Journals: The Road Best Traveled? The adoption of the OA model for journals will create serious instabilities within the existing scholarly publication industry. |
ONLINE
Jul/Aug 2011
Vera Munch |
Open Access: Shaking the Basics of Academic Publishing Although open access is not a new concept, the all-embracing structural upheaval caused by digital technology is still turning academic publishing upside down. |
D-Lib
May/Jun 2007
Arthur Sale |
A Challenge for the Library Acquisition Budget Libraries have traditionally supported researchers as readers, but not as authors. It is desirable for the future of libraries, and for the future of research in their institutions, that libraries become engaged in this crucial step in the research process. |
Information Today
July 3, 2014 |
Taylor & Francis Group Releases OA Survey Results The survey showed that positive attitudes toward open access increased since last year. |
Information Today
November 2004
Richard Poynder |
Poynder On Point: No Gain Without Pain How are publishers responding to the open acess (OA) movement, and can it really deliver on its promise? More importantly, can it reduce library costs? |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2012
Stevan Harnad |
United Kingdom's Open Access Policy Urgently Needs a Tweak The UK government, under the joint influence of the publisher lobby and short-sighted advice from Open Access (OA) advocates, has decided to make all UK research output OA within two years by diverting funds from UK research. |
D-Lib
Jan/Feb 2013
Houghton & Swan |
Planting the Green Seeds for a Golden Harvest: Comments and Clarifications on "Going for Gold" This short paper sets out the main conclusions of our work, which was designed to explore the overall costs and benefits of Open Access for research results, as well as identify the most cost-effective policy basis for transitioning to OA at national and institutional levels. |
Chemistry World
February 21, 2013
Laura Howes |
New publishing models test the water Two new companies have launched in the biomedical field to take the academic publishing industry further into uncharted territory. How they suceed may affect the whole industry. |
Searcher
January 2002
Myer Kutz |
The Scholars Rebellion Against Scholarly Publishing Practices: Varmus, Vitek, and Venting In the decades-long arguments over STM (scientific/technical/medical) journal publishing, mainly about subscription price increases and intellectual property and accessibility issues, one thing has changed in the last few years. Scholars have become involved... |
Information Today
January 17, 2012
Robin Peek |
Research Works Act Could Challenge Public Access to Federally Funded Research This act is designed to thwart activities such as the National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy, which requires scientists to submit final peer-reviewed journal manuscripts that arise from NIH funds to the digital archive PubMed Central. |
Information Today
August 2006
Robin Peek |
The Impact of Open Choice The findings of a study released last month reveal that articles that are published by the author-pays open access approach are cited more often than those that are published in the same journal and that are publicly released 6 months after publication. |
Information Today
October 16, 2008
Susanne Bjorner |
Open Access Moves Into the Mainstream: BioMed Central Purchased by Springer STM publishing giant Springer Science+Business Media announced that it had reached an agreement to purchase BioMed Central Group, the leading global open access publisher, for an undisclosed price. |
Information Today
July 26, 2004
Richard Poynder |
British Politicians Call on U.K. Government to Support Open Access Following 7 months of deliberation, the U.K. House of Commons' Science and Technology Committee has concluded that the current model for scientific publishing is unsatisfactory. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2010
Stevan Harnad |
No-Fault Peer Review Charges: The Price of Selectivity Need Not Be Access Denied or Delayed Plans by universities and research funders to pay the costs of Open Access Publishing ("Gold OA") are premature. |
Information Today
June 25, 2012
Abby Clobridge |
PeerJ Launches with a New Business Model for Open Access Publishing PeerJ, launched on June 12, 2012 amid a great deal of buzz, has introduced a new approach into the mix with a two-pronged strategy that includes membership fees to cover costs and ongoing peer-review responsibilities for authors to retain membership. |
Information Today
August 22, 2013 |
Brill Adopts OA Model for Books Brill, a Netherlands-based publisher in the humanities, social sciences, international law, and biology fields, is now publishing open access books. |
Information Today
April 2004
Richard Poynder |
The Inevitable and the Optimal What measures are being taken in the U.K. government, the publishing industry, and academic institutions to ensure that researchers, teachers, and students have access to the publications they need? |
D-Lib
May 2000
Richard K. Johnson |
A Question of Access SPARC, BioOne, and Society-Driven Electronic Publishing |
Information Today
May 2008
Marji McClure |
Case Study: Open Access Yields Solid Growth for Hindawi Hindawi was just like any other publisher for its first 10 years. But that changed in February 2007 when Hindawi, which had started to test the waters of open access (OA) journal articles a few years earlier, completed its full conversion to an OA publishing model. |
Information Today
May 2004 |
Letter to the Editor Accelerating the Transition to the Optimal and Inevitable: Commentary on open access to research. |
Information Today
November 25, 2014
Nancy K. Herther |
Paperity Hopes to Create a Comprehensive Index of Open Literature Paperity, "The first multidisciplinary aggregator of Open Access journals and papers," launched on Oct. 8. |
Information Today
March 2001
Paula J. Hane |
bepress.com Introduces Innovative Scholarly Publishing Model A new electronic publishing venture has launched that is taking on the scholarly publishing establishment. bepress.com (The Berkeley Electronic Press) was started by three University of California-Berkeley professors and a programmer from the Inktomi team... |
Information Today
Richard Poynder |
U.K. Academics and Librarians Disagree Over Open Access Publishing At an April U.K. Parliament Science and Technology Select Committee session, librarians and academics disagreed with one another over excessive journal pricing, inflexibility over the "bundling" of electronic journals, inequitable copyright agreements, and restrictions on long-term access to digital material. |
Information Today
March 2003
Dick Kaser |
The Future of Journals Elsevier executive Pieter Bolman talks about the future of scholarly publishing and the competition emerging from alternative publication models like the Public Library of Science |
Information Today
March 3, 2015
Brandi Scardilli |
University Libraries Offer an Alternative to Traditional Publishing As digital tools get easier to use, many institutions are starting their own publishing programs in an effort to offer more varied services to their communities. |
Information Today
November 3, 2011 |
Taylor & Francis Group Opens More Open Access In 2012, it will initiate changes to its open access program. It has also announced a new list of OA publications. |
Chemistry World
April 2012 |
Opening the Doors of Knowledge Should all journal articles be free to access online? |
Information Today
October 13, 2009 |
SPARC Reviews Income Models for Open Access Publishing The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition examines the issue of sustainability for current and prospective open access publishers in a new guide, Income Models for Open Access: An Overview of Current Practice. |
Information Today
October 25, 2012
Abby Clobridge |
Copyright Clearance Center Launches Open Access Solutions On Oct. 11, 2012, the Copyright Clearance Center debuted its Open Access Solutions, a set of services aimed at supporting publishers in managing their journal content through the CCC's RightsLink platform. |
Information Today
March 13, 2014 |
Thieme Introduces OA Platform It aggregates Thieme's OA articles on a single platform that is permanently available online for free. |
Chemistry World
March 2, 2012
Rebecca Trager |
Anti-open access bill suffers sudden death Legislation in the US Congress that would have stopped funding agencies stipulating that research they fund with taxpayer dollars be made publicly available has collapsed. The dramatic development could signal a pivotal shift in scientific publishing. |
Information Today
November 12, 2013
Abby Clobridge |
A Conversation With BioMed Central's Cockerill on Open Access Publishing 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 Matthew Cockerill to talk about some of his experiences with OA and STM publishing. |
Information Today
September 17, 2012 |
EBSCO Releases 2013 Serials Price Projections Report This report, based on surveys of a wide range of publishers and reviews of historical serials pricing data, provides serials price projections that will assist information professionals as they make budgeting decisions for the upcoming renewal season. |
Information Today
December 5, 2011
Barbie E. Keiser |
Berlin 9 OA Conference Urging More, Faster The theme of this year's conference, The Impact of Open Access in Research & Scholarship, drew 260 researchers, research funders, OA advocates, commercial publishers, and policymakers. |
Information Today
July 12, 2012 |
IET Launches Open Access Engineering Megajournal This is part of the IET's continuing mission to make essential engineering intelligence available to the worldwide engineering community, benefitting researchers who contribute to or use this content. |
Chemistry World
October 2, 2006
Gill & Sanderson |
RSC to Launch Open Access Hybrid Model In a move to keep RSC publishing competitive, authors of RSC journal papers can now choose to have their research freely available the moment it is published -- for a fee. |
D-Lib
June 2003
Bonita Wilson |
Improving Access to STM Literature: The Need for Continuing Dialogue Digital technologies have transformed the processes involved in information creation, dissemination, and access. The potential exists for the results of STM research to be reported, accessed and used more rapidly than could ever have been imagined in the print-only days. |
Information Today
October 27, 2015
Abby Clobridge |
Open Access Week 2015: 'Open for Collaboration' Libraries, universities, research institutes, publishers, research funding agencies, and individual OA advocates used the opportunity to talk, tweet, and share thoughts, success stories, and lessons learned about OA, open data, and open education. |
Information Today
March 22, 2004
Barbara Quint |
Sci-Tech Not-For-Profit Publishers Commit to Limited Open Access The DC Principles are a response to charges that current publisher practices impede access to published scientific research. |
Chemistry World
February 27, 2013
Phillip Broadwith |
Science community urged to unite on open access Arguments over fine detail should not derail moves towards open access publishing for scientific research, according to those with the biggest stake in future changes. |
Information Today
October 31, 2013 |
LPC Debuts Library Publishing Directory The Library Publishing Coalition published the first edition of its Library Publishing Directory, which provides an overview of the publishing activities of 115 academic and research libraries. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2010
Donald W. King |
An Approach to Open Access Author Payment This article discusses a few of the favorable and unfavorable issues with Open Access through author payment and proposes an approach that takes advantage of the favorable aspects and overcomes some of the unfavorable ones. |
Information Today
September 22, 2011 |
De Gruyter Acquires bepress Journal Porfolio The agreement covers a total of 67 journals in the areas of law, business/economics, humanities, and natural sciences |
D-Lib
February 2006
Esther Hoorn |
Copyright Issues in Open Access Research Journals: The Authors' Perspective A survey reveals the desire on the part of academics to change the balance of rights within copyright between authors and publishers in scholarly communication journals. |
Information Today
January 19, 2012 |
Springer Open Choice Adopts Creative Commons Attribution License In 2004, the hybrid OA option Open Choice was launched at Springer with the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license. Springer's Open Choice option allows authors to publish their articles with OA for the majority of its subscription-based journals. |
Geotimes
December 2005
Naomi Lubick |
Open Access Wide Open Open-access publishing has been heralded both as the savior of scientific literature and the death of publishing, but after less than a decade of the practice, its impact remains uncertain. |
