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by Jeroen Bosman & Bianca Kramer [also see the update of this post (‘Nine routes towards Plan S compliance’), published after the Plan S implementation guidance became available] …
Knowledge Unlatched has recently announced the launch of a new platform to fund Open Access (OA) books. In this post, we explain our concern with this platform and why we won't be participating.
Over recent years, Knowledge Unlatched has harnessed the effectiveness of its consortial funding model to become the largest gatekeeper to open access for scholarly books. But as Marcel Knöchelmann…
In which a theory of change in scholcomm is wrenched bodily away from open access.
Answer: Only if it's gold.
A number of initiatives exist in European countries to support open scholarly communication in humanities and social sciences. This article looks at the work of Open Access in the European Research A...
There’s a real problem behind this Twitter spat.
Looking for reasons to visit a library for students in the age of technology? Here are a couple of solid ones.
Bad science journals – nothing new here Science journalism in Germany in the last days was awash with a report on “predatory publishers” and an integrity ‘crisis’ for German science.
As part of its negotiations with Wolters Kluwer to extend the contract for legal and fiscal professional literature, the VSNU ...
RSC vs. VSNU. Pass the popcorn.
Popular science journal Nature recently announced it will begin accepting machine learning papers for submission to a new paywalled section of its journal. This didn't sit well with the AI community in general.
Scientometrics - Using a database of potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access journals, the objective of this research is to study the penetration of predatory publications...
Despite some difficult negotiations, academic institutions in the Netherlands have been securing subscriptions that combine publishing and reading into one fee.
Technically, the “most journals don’t charge authors” statement could well be true. Most open access journals may not charge authors…
Today, the Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU) and Oxford University Press are pleased to announce a n ...
On the hypocrisy of publishing about OA/DH in closed venues, and why it happens anyway.
Despite some progress, researchers are still reluctant to switch journals because of fears it could hinder their careers
There has been no precedent for this kind of access in the history of scientific enterprise.