(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.…
(4 Mar 2021) Many Australian and New Zealand researchers can now publish research articles as open access in CSIRO-owned journals through new transformative agreements between CSIRO Publishing and CAUL member institutions. Globally, transformative agreements are being used as a way for the research community, academic libraries, and scholarly publishers to work together to find a…
(2 Mar 2021) The MIT Press has announced the launch of Direct to Open (D2O). A first-of-its-kind sustainable framework for open access monographs, D2O moves professional and scholarly books from a solely market-based, purchase model where individuals and libraries buy single eBooks, to a collaborative, library-supported open access model. D2O gives institutions the opportunity to harness collective action to support…
(21 Jan 2021) Abstract of the preprint: “The purpose of this article is to explore options to further open access in the Netherlands from 2021. Its premise is that there is a need to look at qualitative aspects of open access, alongside quantitative ones. The paper first takes stock of progress that has been made.…
(13 Jan 2021) With its funding decision in 2019, the Joint Science Conference of the Federal Government and the Länder had paved the way for zbMATH Open. Now it is done: In an elaborate work process, the information service was transformed into an open access platform. This means that much of the data can be used…
(15 Jan 2021) In a step towards open access, the publisher of Science will start allowing some authors publishing in its high-profile subscription journals to share their accepted manuscripts openly online under liberal terms that mean anyone could reproduce or redistribute the work. The change ensures that scientists with grants from some funding agencies that insist on…
(6 Jan 2021) The article, “Waiving Article Processing Charges for Least Developed Countries: A Keystone of a Large-scale Open Access Transformation”, authored by Taubert, Niels, Andre Bruns, Christopher Lenke, and Graham Stone: “This article investigates whether it is economically feasible for a large publishing house to waive article processing charges for the group of…
(22 Dec 2020) Recently Elsevier announced that it has signed the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) and that it is going to make the reference lists of articles openly available in Crossref. Ludo Waltman, one of the founders of the Initiative for Open Abstracts (I4OA), former Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier’s Journal of Informetrics, shares…
(18 Dec 2020) In May 2020, the National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and OUP signed the first Read and Publish (R&P) agreement in Mainland China. R&P agreements allow researchers from participating institutions to read high quality, high impact research, as well as publish accepted articles through the OA model without paying an…
(11 December 2020) In response to a recent blog post on the OASPA website authored by several publishers’ representatives, COAR would like to underscore the critical role of Open Access repositories in accelerating innovation in scholarly communications and the adoption of Open Access and Open Science. OA repositories (referred to as green OA in…