(26 Nov 2021) Some 193 countries attending UNESCO’s General Conference have agreed to abide by common standards for open science. The first international framework was adopted in the hope of making science more equitable and inclusive, as well as enhancing international scientific cooperation. Audrey Azoulay, UNESCO Director-General, said: ‘The Covid-19 pandemic has brought into…
(17 Nov 2021) Springer Nature published a white paper entitled, “Going for Gold”. The paper presents an analysis of a subset of their articles comparing the usage across closed access, open access (OA) via the Springer Nature platform, and open access through repositories. The paper concludes that “there is an ‘OA effect’ which sees OA…
(Nov 2021) The Open Research Toolkit was created by the Open Research Working Group, comprising representatives of the Australasian Research Management Society (ARMS) and the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL). The Toolkit supports Australasian institutions to implement or further develop open research policy, strategy and practice. The Toolkit contains information, resources and good practice…
(1 Nov 2021) A few weeks ago, ScienceOpen.com sent out a survey to hear about your experiences with Open Access. In this survey we asked questions like, do you believe the scholarly community could do research more effectively if all scientific communication were freely available under an open access license? and, would you prefer if peer reviews were made open? We’re happy…
(8 Oct 2021) Gerald R. Beasley, the Carl A. Kroch University Librarian at Cornell University, has taken a keen interest in exploring and advocating for approaches that academic libraries can take to advance the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and has written particularly about the intersection of the UN’s goals and those of the open…
(14 Oct 2021) Cambridge University Press and the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) have reached a transformative agreement to support Open Access (OA) publishing in Cambridge Journals for 2022. It is one of the first major uncapped transformative agreements reached with CAUL by a publisher of significant size in Australia and New Zealand. It…
(6 Oct 2021) The new Global Open Access Portal (GOAP.info) presents access to a wide array of Open Access resources worldwide, through an advanced user interface design. GOAP.info allows users to browse dynamic Open Access contents via both a text-based search and a map-enabled country search option. Building on an earlier version, the new Portal includes…
(Oct 2021) The Council of New Zealand University Librarians (CONZUL) has released its State of open access in Aotearoa Year 3 report. Here’s the scope of the study: “This is the third iteration of our work, meaning we can start to analyse trends over time. Our dataset comprises publications from 2017 – 2019 with…
(1 Oct 2021) The latest news from Open Access Australia (formerly AOASG) is now available. In this issue: What’s new in OA & scholarly publishing in AU & NZ What’s new in OA & scholarly publishing globally Recent writing & resources on OA Upcoming events in OA & scholarly publishing The newsletter in full can be…
(9 Sep 2021) From the Report Published by the European Commission: The key findings of this study indicate that the European Commission’s leadership in the Open Science policy has paid off. Uptake has steadily increased over the past four years, achieving an average success rate of 83% in Horizon 2020 for open access to scientific…