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HHMI Bulletin
May 2012 |
eLife Announces Editors, Launches Website The editorial board of eLife, the new journal for life and biomedical science launched with the support of HHMI, the Max Planck Society, and the Wellcome Trust, announced the names of the more than 150 reviewing editors who will help deliver on the initiative's commitment to change peer review.   |
HHMI Bulletin
February 2012 |
New Open Access Journal Gets Name and Editorial Team Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society, and the Wellcome Trust are a step closer to launching a top-tier journal with the recent announcement of the publication's editorial team and name. |
Chemistry World
July 4, 2011
Andy Extance |
Funders Unveil 'Elite' Open Access Journal The Wellcome Trust, the Max Planck Society and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute are set to launch an open access research journal that will attempt to compete directly for submissions with Cell, Nature and Science. |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2011 |
HHMI Teams Up for Open Access Journal HHMI, the Max Planck Society, and the Wellcome Trust intend to launch an open-access journal for biomedical and life sciences research that breaks the mold set by traditional scientific journals. |
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
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
June 14, 2012 |
eLife Selects HighWire Platform for New Open Access Journal eLife is a researcher-led initiative for the best in science and science communication. |
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. |
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. |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2011
Robert Tjian |
President's Letter: Journal: Scientists at the Heart Journal aims to publish the highest-quality research across the full spectrum of the life sciences. |
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
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. |
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. |
Chemistry World
April 2012 |
Opening the Doors of Knowledge Should all journal articles be free to access online? |
Information Today
January 26, 2009 |
Nature Publishing Group Expands Open Access Choices Nature Publishing Group is expanding open access choices for authors in 2009, through both "green" self-archiving and "gold" (authors-pays) open access publication routes. |
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. |
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
September 3, 2001
Barbara Quint |
BioMed Central Launches 12 New Author-Initiated Research E-Journals In a major new publishing initiative, BioMed Central has expanded its role in pioneering alternatives for scholarly publishing on the Web... |
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. |
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. |
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? |
Information Today
February 7, 2011 |
Wiley Launches New Program of Open Access Journals The first journals will launch shortly, publishing primary peer-reviewed research in a range of broad-based subject disciplines in the life and biomedical sciences. |
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... |
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. |
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. |
Chemistry World
July 16, 2014
Patrick Walter |
Royal Society of Chemistry's flagship journal now free to access Chemical Science will be free to access from January 2015, and author fees for publishing in the journal will be suspended until 2017. |
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. |
D-Lib
June 2004
Donald W. King |
Should Commercial Publishers Be Included in the Model for Open Access through Author Payment? If open access by author payment is in fact an optimum model, there must be some way to demonstrate it other than by the trickle approach now taking place. |
D-Lib
Jan/Feb 2012
David Shotton |
The Five Stars of Online Journal Articles -- a Framework for Article Evaluation I propose five factors -- peer review, open access, enriched content, available datasets and machine-readable metadata -- as the Five Stars of Online Journal Articles. |
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
December 12, 2011
Robin Peek |
QScience Connect Redefines Scholarly Journals QScience Connect breaks the boundaries of a peer-reviewed traditional scholarly journal that is defined by a discipline or field. |
Information Today
July 12, 2012
Joanna Ptolomey |
Finch Report Reignites OA Storm The global research community and governments are looking to the U.K. for recommendations and solutions to funding and delivering open access models with the recent announcement of the report, "Expanding Access to Published Research Findings." |
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
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. |
Information Today
November 2004
Tom Hogan |
The Fall 2004 ASIDIC Meeting The fall 2004 meeting of the Association of Information and Dissemination Centers (ASIDIC) examined the issues surrounding open access (OA) publishing. Many questions were raised and many views expressed, but few conclusions were drawn. |
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. |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2014
Heidi Zuniga |
The Role of a Digital Repository in a Library-Managed Open Access Fund Program This article discusses the development of an open access author fund at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Health Sciences Library and the subsequent partnership with the library's digital repository, in which the articles supported by the fund were added to the repository. |
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
July 25, 2013 |
eLife Produces Open Science Podcast Series eLife, an open access journal covering research in the life and biomedical sciences, will produce a podcast series with The Naked Scientists, broadcasters who present easy-to-understand science to the general public. |
Information Today
January 2, 2014 |
Nature Publishing Group Announces OA Journal Nature Publishing Group agreed to co-publish Human Genome Variation, a peer-reviewed, open access journal, with the Japan Society of Human Genetics. |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2010
Changqing & Xiaodong |
Development Strategy for High-Quality Science and Technology Journals in China The Ministry of Science and Technology of China has planned and executed a development strategy for high-quality ST journals in order to advance the international competitive capacity of China's journals. |
Information Today
January 7, 2014
Abby Clobridge |
Open Access Roundup Here's a recap of five top stories -- all of which reflect the truly global nature of OA. |
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
April 10, 2006
Robin Peek |
European Commission Releases Key Scientific Publishing Report The European Commission has finally released its report on scientific publishing and now has firmly placed itself in the international discussion of where such publishing should go in the future. |
Information Today
July 16, 2013 |
Springer Renews Its Commitment to Open Access Springer Science+Business Media announced that the influence of its open access journals has increased over the past year. |
Chemistry World
June 19, 2012 |
Finch report backs open access for UK This would allow more people free access to research publications than ever before. However, the report warns that it could cost UK higher education as much as an extra 50 -- 60 million pounds a year. |
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
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
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
December 2007
Dylan Stiles |
Column: Bench Monkey Increased costs make students choose between a chemistry journal subscription and car insurance. |
