(20 Jun 2023) The Transformative Journal (TJ) model was one of the strategies cOAlition S developed to help subscription publishers transition to full and immediate Open Access (OA) in a defined timeframe. This report looks at the data provided by the participating publishers for the calendar year 2022. Source: cOAlition S
(14 Jun 2023) EDP Sciences and the Société de Mathématiques Industrielles et Appliquées (SMAI) have launched the Subscribe to Open (S2O) 2023 Transparency Report for their mathematics journals. As the journals continue their open access publishing in 2023, this marks the third consecutive year of issuing a comprehensive report, underscoring their unwavering dedication to transparency. By…
(2 Jun 2023) The European Union’s council of ministers has called for the bloc to implement a ‘no pay’ academic-publishing model that bears no cost to readers or authors. The recommendations, part of a set of principles on scholarly publishing adopted by the council on 23 May, are not legally binding and have been welcomed…
(16 May 2023) Open Access Australasia is convening an online workshop, in collaboration with OA2020 the ISC, cOAlition S and additional partners, to bring together a wide range of participants from across Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand and the immediate region to discuss the challenges to equitable open access in 2023 in this region and to explore potential solutions. The ideas from this…
(19 Apr 2023) As a trainer and consultant for Open Science Communication, Jo Havemann realized the general idea behind Open Science principles works very well in theory, but does not seem to be applicable to realities in certain research communities, disciplines, and world regions. To address this issue, he consolidated a map containing more than 200…
(28 Feb 2023) In December 2022, the International Association of STM Publishers and the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) released a report: Open Access Publishing in China. The report is openly available in both English and Chinese. This interview with Mark Robertson, consultant to the STM Association on the project, highlights the findings of…
(13 Feb 2023) The world of open access (OA) academic publishing is not a fair or inclusive space as recent conversations and older conversations show. OASPA recognises that OA at any cost is not acceptable, and is mindful of inequities introduced by the current (fully-OA and transitioning) publishing landscape; in removing the paywall to read…
(6 Feb 2023) cOAlition S is seeking to engage the services of a consultant to explore how a globally fair pricing system for academic publishing could be devised and implemented. The European Science Foundation, which hosts the cOAlition S office, will award the contract on behalf of cOAlition S. cOAlition S is participating with UNESCO,…
(19 Jan 2023) Academics based in 70 low- and middle-income countries, including those in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, will be able to have their primary research published Gold Open Access by Nature – at no cost – thus enabling their scientific work to be permanently and freely available online for anyone to read. …
(17 Jan 2023) JSTOR, part of the non-profit ITHAKA, and a cohort of leading university presses announced today Path to Open, a program to support the open access publication of new groundbreaking scholarly books that will bring diverse perspectives and research to millions of people. Launching as a pilot, Path to Open libraries will contribute…