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.
The Trump administration has launched an orchestrated attack on academic freedom, research funding, and the institutional autonomy that underpins intellectual progress. We must act now, together.
Since its establishment in 2021, Irish Open Access Publishers has evolved into a dynamic and engaged network of practitioners. Communities of Practice Theory helps explain how.
Clarivate, Elsevier, and the American Chemical Society are comfortable pursuing a strategy of pricing discrimination. But libraries don’t have to go along with it. This data can help.
MetaROR uses the publish-review-curate model to share work in the field of metaresearch. In this Q and A, Moumita Koley and André Brasil discuss the platform in the context of a scholarly publishing system in crisis.
Transformative agreements have a crucial role to play in the transition to open access, and while they may not fix structural problems, they are a reflection of the dynamic publishing landscape and the diverse needs of the academic community.
How can prospective citizen scientists find projects and partners and organize their work? A platform co-designed by professional researchers, citizens, activists, and other stakeholders offers an answer.
Digital evolutions in scholarly communication have benefitted readers but have not delivered on the promise they hold for authors. More radically open and inclusive solutions are possible.
The declaration calls upon organizations performing, funding, and evaluating research to take action to help make openness of research information the norm. Three of its drafters explain how.
The Second Global Summit on Diamond Open Access embraced an ambitious commitment to social equity, decolonization, and systemic reform in scholarly publishing
Our attempts to define the term “open infrastructure” have led to more questions. What’s important to us are the conversations themselves, along with a continued examination of where definitions might intersect.
The ACLS Open Access Book Prizes reward exceptional humanistic scholarship that has been published openly, demonstrating its relevance within and beyond academia. Here are some lessons learned during the competition’s first year.
Science is largely conducted in alignment with the interests of rich countries and people. If we really want science to be a public good, it needs to become more pluralistic.
The lack of cost transparency in scholarly publishing poses significant challenges for institutions and researchers. Our project, openCost, aims to fix that.
