(30 Jun 2021) A new Open Access pilot scheme from Cambridge University Press will turn conventional publishing models on their head by making academic monographs that sell the most copies available online for free. The initiative, called Flip it Open, will see selected books published and sold as normal, primarily through library collections for universities. But…
(9 Jun 2021) A report commissioned by cOAlition S and the Association of Learned & Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) is a follow up on the outcomes of the Society Publishers Accelerating Open access and Plan S (SPA-OPS) project. Smaller independent publishers – for example, society publishers without a larger publishing partner, university presses, library…
(3 Jun 2021) China is working on a master plan for the internationalisation of its domestic journals and plans to pursue an open science strategy at a national level. That was one of the main messages of a session at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Society of Scholarly Publishing (SSP) held last week, and hosted…
(11 May 2021) At a meeting wrapping up Tuesday, diplomats and legal and technical experts from UNESCO’S member states are trying to draw up new global guidelines under a project called Open Science. “The crisis put a spotlight on how scientific information is produced, shared, communicated,” said Ana Persic, chief of the science policy section…
(28 Apr 2021) “Making the Future of Open Research Work” is one of the sessions held at the 3rd CHORUS Forum last week, which brought publishers, researchers, librarians, and research funders together to exchange ideas over scientific communication issues. The session focuses on the operationalization of the move to open access and the details of…
German study finds academics favouring Springer Nature and Wiley, with authors warning smaller publishers could be squeezed out. (17 Apr 2021) Professor Haucap, a competition economist at the University of Düsseldorf and co-author of “The impact of the German ‘DEAL’ on competition in the academic publishing market”, and his colleagues chose to look at chemistry because the field…
(24 Mar 2021) Today, the European Commission launched Open Research Europe, a publishing platform for scientific papers that will be accessible to everyone. The platform will present the results of research funded by Horizon Europe, the EU research and innovation programme for 2021-2027, and its predecessor, Horizon 2020. Open Research Europe will give everyone, researchers and citizens…
(23 Mar 2021) Springer Nature has signed its first ever institutional open access (OA) book agreement with the University of California, Berkeley Library. The agreement will cover a broad range of book titles across all disciplines — from humanities and social sciences to sciences, technology and mathematics and, starting in 2021 and running for at least…
(9 Mar 2021) OASPA is pleased to announce the publication of an in-depth report and associated recommendations arising from a study of open access journals across the world that are free for readers and authors, usually referred to as “OA diamond journals”. Funded by Science Europe and commissioned by cOAlition S in order to gain a better understanding…
(18 Mar 2021) More than two years after negotiations began, the University of California and the academic publisher Elsevier announced on March 16 that they had finally secured an open-access deal. The new, four-year agreement goes into effect on April 1, making open access the default option for UC academics wishing to publish their work in Elsevier’s journals.…