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Information Today November 26, 2013 |
OA Program Starts at Palgrave Macmillan Palgrave Macmillan published its first open access monograph, Fungal Disease in Britain and the United States 1850-2000, with funds from the Wellcome Trust, a global charitable foundation that focuses on human and animal health. |
Information Today November 21, 2011 |
Palgrave Macmillan Launches New Search Platform Integration This allows easier discovery of similar scholarly content across its publishing program. |
Information Today November 13, 2008 |
Palgrave Macmillan to Launch New Ebook Platform Palgrave Macmillan will launch its own ebook platform, Palgrave Connect in January 2009. The platform will offer libraries a flexible approach to building an ebook collection in the humanities, business, and social sciences. |
Information Today January 7, 2014 |
OASPA Releases Scholarly Publishing Principles The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association posted a set of 16 principles of transparency and best practice in scholarly publishing on its website. |
Information Today January 19, 2012 |
Springer Open Choice Adopts Creative Commons Attribution License In 2004, the hybrid OA option Open Choice was launched at Springer with the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license. Springer's Open Choice option allows authors to publish their articles with OA for the majority of its subscription-based journals. |
Information Today October 20, 2015 |
Palgrave Connect Ebooks Come to Springer Platforms Springer will add all Palgrave Connect ebooks from Palgrave Macmillan to SpringerLink -- and include thousands of ebooks in the Springer Book Archives. |
Information Today August 22, 2013 |
Brill Adopts OA Model for Books Brill, a Netherlands-based publisher in the humanities, social sciences, international law, and biology fields, is now publishing open access books. |
Information Today November 25, 2014 Nancy K. Herther |
Paperity Hopes to Create a Comprehensive Index of Open Literature Paperity, "The first multidisciplinary aggregator of Open Access journals and papers," launched on Oct. 8. |
Information Today May 2008 Marji McClure |
Case Study: Open Access Yields Solid Growth for Hindawi Hindawi was just like any other publisher for its first 10 years. But that changed in February 2007 when Hindawi, which had started to test the waters of open access (OA) journal articles a few years earlier, completed its full conversion to an OA publishing model. |
Information Today February 18, 2014 |
EDP Open Promotes Gold OA Publisher EDP Sciences introduced EDP Open, a new open access imprint for its scientific titles that offers OA journals, books, and conference proceedings all published exclusively online. |
Information Today October 25, 2012 Abby Clobridge |
Copyright Clearance Center Launches Open Access Solutions On Oct. 11, 2012, the Copyright Clearance Center debuted its Open Access Solutions, a set of services aimed at supporting publishers in managing their journal content through the CCC's RightsLink platform. |
Information Today February 2007 Miriam A. Drake |
Scholarly Communication in Turmoil Two leading experts provide some insight into scholarly publishing now and in the future. |
D-Lib June 2004 Harnad & Brody |
Comparing the Impact of Open Access (OA) vs. Non-OA Articles in the Same Journals The way to test the impact advantage of Open Access (OA) is not to compare the citation impact factors of OA and non-OA journals but to compare the citation counts of individual OA and non-OA articles appearing in the same (non-OA) journals. |
Information Today July 10, 2014 |
Europe PMC Gains New OA Research WHO (World Health Organization) announced an open access policy in January 2014 that now applies to all WHO research published in external books and journals. |
Information Today April 19, 2012 |
OAPEN Launches Beta Version of Directory of Open Access Books OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) announced the launch of the beta version of Directory of Open Access Books, a discovery service for peer-reviewed books published under an open access license. |
Information Today September 8, 2011 |
HighWire Introduces Five-Star Article Rating Feature on SAGE Open HighWire Press once again demonstrates its support of independent scholarly publishers with a tool designed for open access publications. |
Information Today September 22, 2015 |
NPG-Palgrave Macmillan Survey Shows Perceptions of OA Publishing The survey shows a growing confidence among scientists in the quality of open access publications. |
ONLINE Mar/Apr 2005 David Stern |
Open Access or Differential Pricing for Journals: The Road Best Traveled? The adoption of the OA model for journals will create serious instabilities within the existing scholarly publication industry. |
Information Today August 2006 Robin Peek |
The Impact of Open Choice The findings of a study released last month reveal that articles that are published by the author-pays open access approach are cited more often than those that are published in the same journal and that are publicly released 6 months after publication. |
Information Today October 16, 2014 |
Thomson Reuters and CCC Simplify OA Workflows With ScholarOne Manuscripts, scholarly publishers and societies can access submission, correspondence, review, reporting, and user management for OA articles from one platform. |
Information Today May 16, 2013 |
IEEE Introduces Open Access `Mega-Journal' IEEE is seeking to increase the impact that scientific research can have on technology innovation with its first online, open access "mega journal" -- a journal that covers a range of disciplines instead of a single-topic focus. |
Information Today July 31, 2014 |
Brill Announces New OA Journals Brill launched a suite of four online-only, open access journals in humanities, social sciences, law, and biology. |
Information Today September 13, 2012 |
Summon Discovery Service Expands Coverage of Open Access Scholarly Content Making these resources accessible through the library discovery interface broadens the number of highly relevant and appropriate results returned to researchers, while further making the library the "go-to" resource for credible content. |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2012 Stevan Harnad |
United Kingdom's Open Access Policy Urgently Needs a Tweak The UK government, under the joint influence of the publisher lobby and short-sighted advice from Open Access (OA) advocates, has decided to make all UK research output OA within two years by diverting funds from UK research. |
Information Today October 2004 Richard Poynder |
Poynder On Point: Ten Years After A decade after professor Stevan Harnad posted what he called a "subversive proposal" to the Electronic Journals mailing list at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, open access (OA) is now threatening to overturn the $6 billion scholarly publishing industry and is forcing even the largest publishers against the ropes. |
Information Today September 12, 2013 Barbara Quint |
OA: Teetering Toward the Tipping Point Librarians were probably among the first groups to completely and ardently advocate OA. we all know that open access will achieve its tipping point and replace print publications and, more importantly, traditional print publishers. |
Information Today March 22, 2004 Barbara Quint |
Sci-Tech Not-For-Profit Publishers Commit to Limited Open Access The DC Principles are a response to charges that current publisher practices impede access to published scientific research. |
Information Today December 12, 2011 Robin Peek |
QScience Connect Redefines Scholarly Journals QScience Connect breaks the boundaries of a peer-reviewed traditional scholarly journal that is defined by a discipline or field. |
Information Today November 2004 Richard Poynder |
Poynder On Point: No Gain Without Pain How are publishers responding to the open acess (OA) movement, and can it really deliver on its promise? More importantly, can it reduce library costs? |
Information Today May 2004 |
Letter to the Editor Accelerating the Transition to the Optimal and Inevitable: Commentary on open access to research. |
Chemistry World June 11, 2015 Rebecca Trager |
Chemical sciences literature dominated by five publishing houses The percentage of chemistry papers published by the big five publishers is a significant outlier in the sciences. |
Information Today May 29, 2014 |
Knowledge Unlatched Rolls Out Pilot Results Its mission was to create a sustainable route to open access for specialist scholarly books by working with libraries and publishers to share the costs of OA. |
Information Today Richard Poynder |
U.K. Academics and Librarians Disagree Over Open Access Publishing At an April U.K. Parliament Science and Technology Select Committee session, librarians and academics disagreed with one another over excessive journal pricing, inflexibility over the "bundling" of electronic journals, inequitable copyright agreements, and restrictions on long-term access to digital material. |
Information Today July 3, 2014 |
Taylor & Francis Group Releases OA Survey Results The survey showed that positive attitudes toward open access increased since last year. |
Information Today September 17, 2013 |
CCC Steps Up Its OA Efforts Copyright Clearance Center joined the U.K.'s Gold Open Access Infrastructure program as the next step in its ongoing efforts to improve open access standards. |
Information Today July 10, 2006 Robin Peek |
RCUK Releases Long-Awaited OA Policy The RCUK released its updated position paper, which now only strongly encourages that a substantial portion of its funded research must be OA. |
Chemistry World October 2, 2006 Gill & Sanderson |
RSC to Launch Open Access Hybrid Model In a move to keep RSC publishing competitive, authors of RSC journal papers can now choose to have their research freely available the moment it is published -- for a fee. |
Information Today July 16, 2013 |
Springer Renews Its Commitment to Open Access Springer Science+Business Media announced that the influence of its open access journals has increased over the past year. |
Information Today February 12, 2007 |
Macmillan Launches Ebook Sites Macmillan has launched more than 30 ebook titles from its Macmillan New Writing and Macmillan Science imprints. These are now available to search and purchase online. |
Information Today July 12, 2012 |
IET Launches Open Access Engineering Megajournal This is part of the IET's continuing mission to make essential engineering intelligence available to the worldwide engineering community, benefitting researchers who contribute to or use this content. |
Information Today November 3, 2011 |
Taylor & Francis Group Opens More Open Access In 2012, it will initiate changes to its open access program. It has also announced a new list of OA publications. |
Information Today January 27, 2015 Marydee Ojala |
Springer and Macmillan Poised to Merge On Jan. 15, 2015, there was a disruption in the field of academic scientific publishing. |
Information Today January 29, 2015 |
LYRASIS Signs On to Support the Open Library of Humanities LYRASIS agreed to become the Open Library of Humanities' exclusive North American membership and administrative agent. |
Information Today November 2004 Tom Hogan |
The Fall 2004 ASIDIC Meeting The fall 2004 meeting of the Association of Information and Dissemination Centers (ASIDIC) examined the issues surrounding open access (OA) publishing. Many questions were raised and many views expressed, but few conclusions were drawn. |
Information Today April 2004 Richard Poynder |
The Inevitable and the Optimal What measures are being taken in the U.K. government, the publishing industry, and academic institutions to ensure that researchers, teachers, and students have access to the publications they need? |
Information Today July 12, 2012 Joanna Ptolomey |
Finch Report Reignites OA Storm The global research community and governments are looking to the U.K. for recommendations and solutions to funding and delivering open access models with the recent announcement of the report, "Expanding Access to Published Research Findings." |
Information Today July 7, 2015 Abby Clobridge |
Highlights From the CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication The international community joined together June 17-19 at the University of Geneva to discuss big issues, learn from each other, and challenge perceptions related to publishing and scholarly discourse. |
D-Lib Jan/Feb 2013 Houghton & Swan |
Planting the Green Seeds for a Golden Harvest: Comments and Clarifications on "Going for Gold" This short paper sets out the main conclusions of our work, which was designed to explore the overall costs and benefits of Open Access for research results, as well as identify the most cost-effective policy basis for transitioning to OA at national and institutional levels. |
Information Today October 27, 2015 Abby Clobridge |
Open Access Week 2015: 'Open for Collaboration' Libraries, universities, research institutes, publishers, research funding agencies, and individual OA advocates used the opportunity to talk, tweet, and share thoughts, success stories, and lessons learned about OA, open data, and open education. |
Information Today March 4, 2014 |
UKSG's Official Journal Goes OA The UKSG organization for scholarly communication announced that its electronic-only journal Insights is now platinum open access, meaning authors will not be required to pay article-processing charges. |