The PALOMERA project took stock of the European funder and institutional policy landscape for open access books and monographs. Its findings are a starting point for an important conversation.
We’re stuck in a moribund scholarly publishing ecosystem. Acts of refusal by academic researchers and faculty may be our only way out.
The idea of research as a public good has long been a central tenet of the open access movement. Here’s what I learned about who is actually using OA and why.
Qatar National Library has been funding open access in Qatar for a decade. Here’s what we’ve learned.
Under read-and-publish agreements, articles aren’t deemed eligible for open access publication until they are accepted by the publisher, leaving authors frustrated, libraries stuck, and everyone needlessly confused. There’s a better way.
As infrastructures, policymaking activities, and funding for open access book publishing evolve, the question of how diamond OA might best be implemented for books becomes more pressing. A review of diamond OA criteria for journals is a good place to start.
Some publishers have sought to leverage more restrictive licenses to gain commercial control of open access works. Soft mandates for the CC BY license could help.
Research malpractice threatens the scholarly communication ecosystem. Libraries managing open access agreements can help.
With the publication process in need of reform and science facing great global challenges, the International Science Council proposes a way forward.
In this Q&A, Colleen Campbell of OA2020 discusses the initiative’s achievements, the evolving challenges of the open access transition, and why she’s optimistic about the road ahead.
In the 22 Arab states, open access faces endemic challenges, while offering a powerful example of how the diamond model can be successful and sustainable. A project to map the region’s open access journals reveals key trends.
Research software has become integral for a wide range of disciplines. In this precarious moment for research, can we afford not to recognize it as a “first-class” research output?
A recent survey of European research-funding and -performing organizations offers insight into the comprehensive strategies and international collaboration necessary to sustain the global open science movement.
A continent-wide initiative is empowering a new generation of African library and information studies researchers to advocate for open science within their institutions and beyond.
In this Q&A, Madhan, director of libraries at Jindal Global University, discusses institutional repositories, author-pay open access, publish-review-curate, and the “expensive distraction” of India’s One Nation One Subscription deal.
We set out to determine whether open monographs were being used in teaching and learning and fell down a very deep hole. Here is what we learned.
Today more content is available open access than ever before. But this datapoint isn’t the whole story.
As Portland Press transitions to Subscribe to Open, we are rethinking how to measure and report usage so we can demonstrate that open access—and the spending of the libraries that support it—is improving the global reach of our articles.
The impacts of funding cuts to research in the US extend far beyond their immediate targets. We see a chain reaction that could indelibly alter the education and research landscape, including the future of open and sustainable research.
