Open Access

Marking the First Decade of the First Social Science Megajournal
Open Access
June 21, 2021

Marking the First Decade of the First Social Science Megajournal

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Open Science Should Learn from the Evolution of Open Government Data
Open Access
March 19, 2021

Open Science Should Learn from the Evolution of Open Government Data

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Can We Have Open Science Where No Scholar Is Left Behind?
Open Access
December 29, 2020

Can We Have Open Science Where No Scholar Is Left Behind?

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Size Still Matters: Discoverability, Impact and ‘Big’ Journals
Impact
June 19, 2020

Size Still Matters: Discoverability, Impact and ‘Big’ Journals

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Free Essay Collection Examines State of Open Data

Free Essay Collection Examines State of Open Data

By offering a broad overview of the open data movement’s first 10 years, the editors of a recent collection of essays hope to provide an account that helps practitioners, policy-makers, community advocates, and anyone else in the open data movement, to progress the movement over the next 10 years…

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Plan S: Not a Threat to Open Access Publishing in Latin America

Plan S: Not a Threat to Open Access Publishing in Latin America

Recently, concerns have been raised about the consequences that Plan S, an initiative of the cOAlition S consortium of research funders aiming to provide free online access to all research literature, will affect Latin America’s strong tradition of open access publishing.

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‘The Old Models Are Not Working’: A Librarian on the New Big Deal

‘The Old Models Are Not Working’: A Librarian on the New Big Deal

The academic publishing paradigm is changing, driven in large part by calls for open access to publicly funded research. In this second of two parts, the university librarian for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill explains the thinking behind of a pilot program UNC inked with a major academic publisher.

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Anatomy of the New Big Deal in an Open Access Age

Anatomy of the New Big Deal in an Open Access Age

The academic publishing paradigm is changing, driven in large part by calls for open access to publicly funded research. In this first of two parts, SAGE Publishing’s vice president of open research explains the genesis of a pilot program his company has inked with a major U.S. research university.

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Research on Research

Research on Research

With the advent of the new Research on Research Institute, our Robert Dingwall notes that while research on research fills a gap in the world of knowledge. However, it is important not to confuse it with the research enterprise itself or to assume that this will benefit from being made so planned, rational and evidence-based that the result is to squeeze innovation out of the system.

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Maximizing the Utility of Open Science

Maximizing the Utility of Open Science

A key political driver of open access and open science policies has been the potential economic benefits that they could deliver to public and private knowledge users. However, the empirical evidence for these claims is rarely substantiated. In this post Michael Fell, discusses how open research can lead to economic benefits and suggests that if these benefits are to be more widely realized, future open research policies should focus on developing research discovery, translation and the capacity for research utilization outside of the academy.

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Modernizing the Monograph Ecosystem Can Save Them From Extinction

Modernizing the Monograph Ecosystem Can Save Them From Extinction

The future of the academic monograph has been questioned for over two decades. At the heart of this ‘monograph crisis’ has been a publishing industry centred on the print publication of monographs and a failure and lack of incentives to develop business models that would support a transition to open digital monographs. In this post Mike Taylor argues that if monographs are to be appropriately valued, there is a pressing need to further integrate monographs into the digital infrastructure of scholarly communication. Failing this, the difficulty in tracking the usage and discovery of monographs online, will likely make the case for justifying further investment in monographs harder.

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Before Plan S, There Was Latin America’s AmeliCA

Before Plan S, There Was Latin America’s AmeliCA

Open access is often discussed as a process of flipping the existing closed subscription based model of scholarly communication to an open one. In Latin America an open access ecosystem for scholarly publishing has been in place for over a decade. Could efforts like Plan S actually hurt this established initiative?

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