(5 Jan 2023) Critics have hit out at the way in which the open access switch – from paying for journal subscriptions to paying for research to be published – has been managed and are calling for an end to what they describe as “massive” upfront fees that academic institutes or authors pay to ensure their…
(30 Dec 2022) Goodbye to 2022 and hello to 2023; let’s look at what stories at LibraryLearningSpace.com (LLS) attracted our readers the most in 2022. The statistics show that the reader’s interest lies in specific topics that make more sense by looking at a higher level. But feel free to go directly to the…
(14 Dec 2022) A new report released today provides insights into the complex and evolving global Open Access landscape — and with a particular focus on China. The report is a product of a collaboration between STM Association and the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) focused on the bilateral sharing of ideas and best…
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(5 Dec 2022) Recently CAUL has announced several read and publish agreements with major publishers, including SAGE, Elsevier, and Taylor & Francis, among a few. It seems that Australia is achieving progressively preparing its research environment to be aligned with open access policy by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC). However, concerns…
(Dec 2022) Association of Research Libraries recently created a list of FAQs on the copyright concerns of the new OSTP public-access guidance, answering questions including: What does the Nelson memo say about copyright? Am I giving away my copyright if I deposit my article of data in a repository? How does licensing work? What are…
(1 Dec 2022) The world’s largest disciplinary open access initiative, the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP³), has officially launched a new initiative to make books in particle physics and related domains fully open access, under the SCOAP³ for Books program. Since the launch of SCOAP³ in 2014, the transition…
(31 Oct 2022) Open Science, as a movement, evolved, grew, and now shapes the future through a variety of projects, initiates, organizations, and services. Consequently, on one hand, Open Science offerings to users grow in number, like the exponential growth of scholarly works. On the other hand, new and even more experienced users of Open Science…
(21 Nov 2022) Springer Nature is announcing what it says is the largest transformative agreement in Japan, comprising the engagement of 10 institutions that will generate the open-access of close to 900 articles in the coming year. The University of Tokyo is among the institutions participating in the accord, and the program will allow…
(19 Nov 2022) Open science has been a feature of academia in Vietnam for more than a decade, along with open education which has been in place since the late 2000s. Since then, with the assistance of numerous bottom-up initiatives, open science has flourished and permeated a variety of academic fields in Vietnam. However, it…