(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…
(18 Dec 2020) South Korea’s National Research Council of Science & Technology (NST) and Elsevier, a global research publishing and information analytics provider, today announced a new three-year agreement that will provide South Korean researchers access to global academic research and offer them Open Access (OA) publishing options from January 1, 2021. The agreement provides 25 government-funded research…
(15 Dec 2020) This issue on Fun Facts on Numbers – Plan S is just around the corner, and journals are adapting themselves to be compliant, even for highly-prestigious titles. Recently Springer Nature releases its APC charges for Nature and its branded journals, effective from Jan 2021. And how much would it be? …
Joint study by Springer Nature, the Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU) and the Dutch University Libraries and the National Library consortium (UKB), tracks wider impact of SDG related content when published Gold OA (30 Nov 2020) What impact does open research have on society and progressing global societal challenges? The latest results of…