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Elsevier and Japan Alliance of University Library Consortia for E-Resources agree on proposal for subscription publishing with measures to support open access goals

Asia Pacific, Open Access, PublishersNovember 19, 2020

(18 Nov 2020) The Japan Alliance of University Library Consortia for E-Resources (JUSTICE) and Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, have signed an agreement on a new three-year proposal for subscription publishing with measures to support Japan’s open access (OA) goals, effective January 1, 2021. This is the first such agreement for Elsevier in Japan…

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Article: How is open access accused of being predatory? The impact of Beall’s lists of predatory journals on academic publishing

eJournals, Open AccessNovember 13, 2020

(10 Nov 2020) This open-access article has recently been published in The Journal of Academic Librarianship, by Franciszek Krawczyk and Emanuel Kulczycki. Abstract: The aim of this paper is to investigate how predatory journals are characterized by authors who write about such journals. We emphasize the ways in which predatory journals have been conflated…

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Collaboration formed to improve the preservation of open access journals

Open AccessNovember 9, 2020

(5 Nov 2020) DOAJ, the CLOCKSS Archive, Internet Archive, Keepers Registry/ISSN International Centre and Public Knowledge Project (PKP) have agreed to partner to provide an alternative pathway for the preservation of small-scale, APC-free, Open Access journals. The recent study, authored by M. Laakso, L. Matthias, and N. Jahn, has revived academia’s concern over the disappearance of the scholarly record disseminated…

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Open but unfair- the role of social justice in open access publishing

Open AccessOctober 26, 2020

(24 Oct 2020) Stage one of the open access (OA) movement promoted the democratization of scholarly knowledge, making work available so that anybody could read it. However, publication in highly ranked journals is becoming very costly, feeding the same vendor capitalists that OA was designed to sidestep. In this Q&A, Simon Batterbury argues that when prestige…

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Creating a free and beautiful auto-updating dashboard for tracking open access rates for your institution using Lens.org

Open AccessOctober 23, 2020

(21 Oct 2020) Imagine you are asked by a senior University administrator how much of your University’s output is currently made open access? Or if you wish to track if your researchers are complying with funder requirements. Wouldn’t it be nice to have auto-updating dashboards like this for the low price of free? See…

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Indonesia publishes the most open access journals in the world: what it means for local research

Asia Pacific, Open AccessOctober 23, 2020

(7 Oct 2020) Indonesia is a world leader in the number of free-to-read published research journals. Journals published with open access (OA) licenses are available to read for free and can be legally redistributed. With the license, anyone can get the full article and all supporting documents for free because the author or research institute already bears the cost of…

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Open access is here to stay. But who will pay?

Open AccessOctober 22, 2020

(21 Oct 2020) The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the already steady transition towards Open Access publishing. However, precisely what this future looks like and how it will be paid for by smaller, independent publishers is less clear. In this post, Danielle Padula outlines key findings from a report into the current state of Open Access…

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New PLOS pricing test could signal end of scientists paying to publish free papers

Open AccessOctober 19, 2020

(15 Oct 2020) PLOS, the nonprofit publisher that in 2003 pioneered the open-access business model of charging authors to publish scientific articles so they are immediately free to all, this week rolled out an alternative model that could herald the end of the author-pays era. One of the new options shifts the cost of publishing open-access…

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Directory of Open Access Books reaches milestone of 30,000 open access books from over 400 publishers

eBooks, Open AccessOctober 14, 2020

(12 Oct 2020) Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) recently reached three key milestones in terms of book coverage, unique publishers and future financial sustainability. The number of open access books included in DOAB has grown impressively from just over 10,000 books in 2018 to 31,917 as of today. In terms of publishers, we are…

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IWA Publishing launches pilot to flip its entire journal portfolio to open access using the Subscribe-to-Open model

Open Access, PublishersOctober 8, 2020

(7 Oct 2020) IWA Publishing, the wholly owned publishing subsidiary of the International Water Association based in London, UK, has announced a pilot to transform its complete journal portfolio of 10 subscription titles including the flagship journal “Water, Science and Technology” to Open Access (OA) from 2021 onwards. In partnership with Knowledge Unlatched, IWA Publishing…

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