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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 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 June 9, 2015 |
Thieme Tests New OA Model Thieme will launch The Surgery Journal, a new pay-what-you-want, open access, online-only publication that will provide original research, reviews, and case reports on all surgical specialties. |
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 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 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. |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2010 Stevan Harnad |
No-Fault Peer Review Charges: The Price of Selectivity Need Not Be Access Denied or Delayed Plans by universities and research funders to pay the costs of Open Access Publishing ("Gold OA") are premature. |
Information Today August 8, 2013 |
Thieme's Online Platform Adds Primary Source Data Thieme is an international STM publisher specializing in orthopedics, radiology, anatomy, and chemistry that publishes more than 500 books and 140 peer-reviewed journals each year. |
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 24, 2015 |
NPG Introduces Double-Blind Peer-Review Option Nature Publishing Group announced that in March 2015, authors will be able to opt for double-blind peer review -- wherein both the authors and the reviewers are anonymous. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2014 Heidi Zuniga |
The Role of a Digital Repository in a Library-Managed Open Access Fund Program This article discusses the development of an open access author fund at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Health Sciences Library and the subsequent partnership with the library's digital repository, in which the articles supported by the fund were added to the repository. |
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 October 13, 2015 |
The Open Library of Humanities Debuts The Open Library of Humanities, an organization dedicated to publishing open access scholarship with no charges to authors, launched after 2 years of planning. |
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 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 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 May/Jun 2007 Arthur Sale |
A Challenge for the Library Acquisition Budget Libraries have traditionally supported researchers as readers, but not as authors. It is desirable for the future of libraries, and for the future of research in their institutions, that libraries become engaged in this crucial step in the research process. |
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 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 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 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 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 September 18, 2014 |
Cogent OA Rolls Out UI Upgrade Cogent OA, an open access publisher that is part of Taylor & Francis Group, introduced an upgrade to its user interface. |
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. |
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 May 2004 |
Letter to the Editor Accelerating the Transition to the Optimal and Inevitable: Commentary on open access to research. |
Information Today July 26, 2004 Richard Poynder |
British Politicians Call on U.K. Government to Support Open Access Following 7 months of deliberation, the U.K. House of Commons' Science and Technology Committee has concluded that the current model for scientific publishing is unsatisfactory. |
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 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. |
Geotimes December 2005 Naomi Lubick |
Open Access Wide Open Open-access publishing has been heralded both as the savior of scientific literature and the death of publishing, but after less than a decade of the practice, its impact remains uncertain. |
Information Today August 20, 2013 Barbara Quint |
OA Rules at the University of California The largest public research university in the world recently committed all of its 10 campuses to open access. |
Information Today April 7, 2015 |
Springer and Jisc Work Toward Sustainable OA Publishing Springer Science+Business Media and Jisc reached an agreement that helps U.K. scientists comply with multiple funders' open access policies. |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2010 Donald W. King |
An Approach to Open Access Author Payment This article discusses a few of the favorable and unfavorable issues with Open Access through author payment and proposes an approach that takes advantage of the favorable aspects and overcomes some of the unfavorable ones. |
Information Today March 10, 2015 |
Thieme's Delhi Division Makes Strides in Neurology Publishing Thieme Publishers Delhi took over the publication of the peer-reviewed, open access Indian Journal of Neurosurgery from Wolters Kluwer Health's Medknow division. |
Information Today October 16, 2008 Susanne Bjorner |
Open Access Moves Into the Mainstream: BioMed Central Purchased by Springer STM publishing giant Springer Science+Business Media announced that it had reached an agreement to purchase BioMed Central Group, the leading global open access publisher, for an undisclosed price. |
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. |
Information Today September 21, 2009 Robin Peek |
A Compact for Open Access Publication Announced Open-access publishing promises to put more research in more hands and in more places around the world. This is a good enough reason for universities to embrace the guiding principles of this compact. |
Information Today March 31, 2015 |
Cogent OA Redefines APC Strategy Open access publisher Cogent OA introduced the Freedom APC (article processing charge) initiative. |
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 April 9, 2015 |
CERN and Elsevier Further Their OA Goals New open access articles cover fields such as nuclear physics, instrumentation, astroparticle physics, and scientific computing. |
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 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. |
Chemistry World September 12, 2013 Maria Burke |
Going for gold comes with cost The UK government is making a mistake in focusing solely on full open-access to published research findings, according to a new Parliamentary report. This policy is forcing universities to dip into already stretched research budgets. |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2010 Changqing & Xiaodong |
Development Strategy for High-Quality Science and Technology Journals in China The Ministry of Science and Technology of China has planned and executed a development strategy for high-quality ST journals in order to advance the international competitive capacity of China's journals. |
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 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 March 26, 2015 |
IGI Global Starts OA Initiative Individuals and institutions will have unrestricted access to the selected titles. |