The most comprehensive index of open access journals, the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), reviewed its inclusion criteria, in view of allegations of the presence of predatory journals. This restructuring will lead to more than 3,000 journals to be removed from the database. DOAJ, besides advocating Open Access, established, in collaboration with COPE, OASPA and WAME, a code of principles and good practices in scientific publishing. … Read More →

European Open Science Infrastructure, for open scholarly and scientific communication

Main event. Definitely. Elsevier's acquisition of the open access journal article and working papers repository and online community Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is definitely a case of Elsevier tipping their hand and giving us all a peek at their real long term strategy.

Elsevier is one of the world’s largest scholarly publishers and one of the most bitter enemies that open access publishing has; SSRN is one of the biggest open access scholarly publishing rep…

In order to reassert their commitment to advance the Open Access agenda within the broader context of sustainable development through optimal resource sharing, the Knowledge Societies Division, Communication and Information Sector (KSD/CI) of UNESCO and the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) have agreed to release a joint statement on Open Access.

The open source physics site arXiv is turning 25, and it's going to get a makeover. But what does that mean for its principles of data transparency?

The math is there for a new publishing model, but the will and the organizational efforts are lagging badly, especially in the leadership of ASA.

Grey literature - produced by government departments, academic institutions, private companies - are hidden away from the public.

Thanks to the growing uberisation of science, opportunities to participate in world class research could soon no longer be limited to researchers in well-funded labs. According to an opinion piece by Barend Mons, professor at the Leiden University Medical Centre, The Netherlands, technology has now made it possible to distribute part of the interpretation of scientific results across a geographically widespread work force, to include scientists from developing countries. In the first of a two-part contribution, he also envisions that a new business model allocating free access to those who share, and charging a premium to those who don’t, could soon disrupt research and innovation and further open science.

Among the issues I’ve worked through while developing a strategy for the IR at Milne, is a need to understand the scholarly production of campus. How and where are they publishing? How can we…

Saying that Sci-Hub is about copyright infringement is like saying the Boston Tea Party was about late-night vandalism.

Thanks to a new agreement with Springer, MIT-authored articles will automatically be deposited into DSpace@MIT, the Institute's open access repository.

On April 4, 2016, the University of Arizona Faculty Senate passed an open access policy that calls on the faculty and university to distribute faculty-authored scholarly articles to the widest possible audience through the UA Campus Repository. The new policy was drafted by a faculty task force charged to “review how we as a faculty might act in order to expand access to our scholarly and research outputs.”