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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.   |
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. |
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
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
April 7, 2015 |
Springer and Jisc Work Toward Sustainable OA Publishing Springer Science+Business Media and Jisc reached an agreement that helps U.K. scientists comply with multiple funders' open access policies. |
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. |
Information Today
September 18, 2014 |
Cogent OA Rolls Out UI Upgrade Cogent OA, an open access publisher that is part of Taylor & Francis Group, introduced an upgrade to its user interface. |
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. |
D-Lib
June 2004
Harnad & Brody |
Comparing the Impact of Open Access (OA) vs. Non-OA Articles in the Same Journals The way to test the impact advantage of Open Access (OA) is not to compare the citation impact factors of OA and non-OA journals but to compare the citation counts of individual OA and non-OA articles appearing in the same (non-OA) journals. |
Information Today
February 18, 2014 |
EDP Open Promotes Gold OA Publisher EDP Sciences introduced EDP Open, a new open access imprint for its scientific titles that offers OA journals, books, and conference proceedings all published exclusively online. |
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
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
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. |
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
October 30, 2014 |
PCG Survey Reveals That Libraries Provide OA Funds Almost 25% of respondents noted that libraries offer funding for article processing charges), some of which comes from existing materials budgets. |
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. |
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
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
May 2004 |
Letter to the Editor Accelerating the Transition to the Optimal and Inevitable: Commentary on open access to research. |
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
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
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. |
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. |
Information Today
September 22, 2015 |
NPG-Palgrave Macmillan Survey Shows Perceptions of OA Publishing The survey shows a growing confidence among scientists in the quality of open access publications. |
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. |
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 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." |
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
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
October 16, 2014 |
Thomson Reuters and CCC Simplify OA Workflows With ScholarOne Manuscripts, scholarly publishers and societies can access submission, correspondence, review, reporting, and user management for OA articles from one platform. |
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. |
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
February 24, 2015 |
NPG Introduces Double-Blind Peer-Review Option Nature Publishing Group announced that in March 2015, authors will be able to opt for double-blind peer review -- wherein both the authors and the reviewers are anonymous. |
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. |
Information Today
August 20, 2013
Barbara Quint |
OA Rules at the University of California The largest public research university in the world recently committed all of its 10 campuses to open access. |
Information Today
September 17, 2013 |
CCC Steps Up Its OA Efforts Copyright Clearance Center joined the U.K.'s Gold Open Access Infrastructure program as the next step in its ongoing efforts to improve open access standards. |
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. |
Information Today
March 31, 2015 |
Cogent OA Redefines APC Strategy Open access publisher Cogent OA introduced the Freedom APC (article processing charge) initiative. |
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
January 7, 2013
Robin Peek |
eLife, a New Scholarly Communication System eLife is "a researcher-led digital publication for outstanding work, a platform to maximize the reach and influence of new findings and a showcase for new approaches for the presentation and assessment of research." |
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 4, 2014 |
UKSG's Official Journal Goes OA The UKSG organization for scholarly communication announced that its electronic-only journal Insights is now platinum open access, meaning authors will not be required to pay article-processing charges. |
Information Today
March 26, 2012
Abby Clobridge |
Open Access Meeting Reflections -- SPARC 2012 The SPARC Open Access Meeting was held March 12-13, 2012. in Kansas City, Mo. More than 200 people attended to discuss a host of OA themes including policy issues, author rights, OA publishing, and repositories. |
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. |
Information Today
April 19, 2012 |
OAPEN Launches Beta Version of Directory of Open Access Books OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) announced the launch of the beta version of Directory of Open Access Books, a discovery service for peer-reviewed books published under an open access license. |
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 12, 2013
Barbara Quint |
OA: Teetering Toward the Tipping Point Librarians were probably among the first groups to completely and ardently advocate OA. we all know that open access will achieve its tipping point and replace print publications and, more importantly, traditional print publishers. |
Information Today
July 10, 2014 |
Europe PMC Gains New OA Research WHO (World Health Organization) announced an open access policy in January 2014 that now applies to all WHO research published in external books and journals. |
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. |
Information Today
February 4, 2014 |
Taylor & Francis Group Hosts Journals With figshare Taylor & Francis Group and figshare partnered to host journal content on Taylor & Francis Online, the online platform for Taylor & Francis Group publications, and figshare, an online repository. |
