Open Access

Canadian Librarians Suggest Secondary Publishing Rights to Improve Public Access to Research
Opinion
August 2, 2023

Canadian Librarians Suggest Secondary Publishing Rights to Improve Public Access to Research

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Webinar: How Can Public Access Advance Equity and Learning?
Communication
July 10, 2023

Webinar: How Can Public Access Advance Equity and Learning?

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Open Access in the Humanities and Social Sciences in Canada: A Conversation
Open Access
May 10, 2023

Open Access in the Humanities and Social Sciences in Canada: A Conversation

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Is Wikipedia A Good Academic Resource?
Research
April 17, 2023

Is Wikipedia A Good Academic Resource?

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‘Peer Community In’ for Preprints Offers a Model for Diamond Open Access

‘Peer Community In’ for Preprints Offers a Model for Diamond Open Access

Peer Community In is a peer-review-based service for recommending preprints which greenlights articles and makes them and their reviews, data, codes and scripts available on an open-access basis.

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Does Open Access Result In More Policy Citations?

Does Open Access Result In More Policy Citations?

Will you research be cited more often if it was originally published open access? The people at Overton, a platform which tracks citation in policy, decided to investigate.

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Webinar Examines Open Access and Author Rights

Webinar Examines Open Access and Author Rights

The next in SAGE Publishing’s How to Get Published webinar series honors International Open Access Week (October 24-30). The free webinar is […]

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The Foundational Myths of Open Access Still Shape How We View It

The Foundational Myths of Open Access Still Shape How We View It

Drawing on research into the early OA discourse of the 1990s, Corina MacDonald argues that many of the original optimistic arguments in favor of open access continue to shape open access to this day, often in ways that obscure the reality of digital networked labor.

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How Three False Starts Stifle Open Social Science

How Three False Starts Stifle Open Social Science

Patrick Dunleavy argues that there have already been three false starts in open science: focusing only on isolated bits of the open agenda in ways that don’t connect and so are not meaningful; loading researchers with off-putting, external bureaucratic requirements; and risking reopening ‘sectarian’ divides between quantitative and qualitative social scientists.

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Who Actually Makes Use of Open Access Research? We Looked at US National Academies Reports

Who Actually Makes Use of Open Access Research? We Looked at US National Academies Reports

Drawing on a dataset covering over a million user comments about their use of US National Academies consensus study reports, Ameet Doshi, Diana Hicks, Matteo Zullo and Omar I. Asensio find widespread use of open research in the public sphere.

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The Role and Impact of Preprints in Open Access Publishing

The Role and Impact of Preprints in Open Access Publishing

Preprint repositories have become the hotspot for disseminating research articles. As a result, many researchers choose preprint over journal publishing to save […]

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Does the Business Model for Academic Publishing Promote Scholarly Progress?

Does the Business Model for Academic Publishing Promote Scholarly Progress?

The the latest Questions & Unanswers About Social Innovation seminar series put on by the Rutgers Institute for Corporate Social Innovation examined if the business model of academic publishing helps or hinders scholarly progress.

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