Dear Colleagues,

The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity for all, require global collaboration, knowledge sharing, and equitable access to information. Open Access, which provides unrestricted access to scholarly research and knowledge, has…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity for all, require global collaboration, knowledge sharing, and equitable access to information. Open Access, which provides unrestricted access to scholarly research and knowledge, has…[Read more]

Dear All,

Hosting platforms for Open Access publications, e.g., OAPEN, differ significantly in the presence of various Creative Commons licenses through which the book titles are available in likely reflection of their take-up by the publishing industry:…[Read more]

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The emergence of Open Access might be approached not only as a consequence of differentiation dynamics in the publishing market, but also as a likely response to the multidimensional contradictions and cross-cutting global pressures this market demonstrates:…[Read more]

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In her recent post, Mirela Roncevic discusses Open Educational Resources (OERs), the complexities these entail, the benefits of OERs for faculty and students, such as the removal of cost-barriers to course development and enrolment, and the roles that libraries can play with regard to OER publishing, discoverability and awareness:…[Read more]

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Creative Commons licensing, on which Open Access largely relies, can be complex to handle in the context of private-public partnerships or publisher-side commercial reuse alongside author-side copyright retention. Likewise, as intellectual property rights are governed by geography-bound copyright legislation, their harmonization is…[Read more]

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In this podcast episode, Matthew Ismail talks to immunologist Ewoud Compeer of the University of Oxford about the reproducibility crisis and how Open Science and Open Access can help to enhance the reproducibility of scientific research:…[Read more]

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The evidence-based science discussion highlights factors likely leading to the emergence of Open Access, as ongoing crises across scientific discourses have possibly powered a demand for a revision of the basic assumptions subtending publishing practices:…[Read more]

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In the United Kingdom, lose-lose outcomes for publishers and universities are likely, due to mandate-driven transitions to Open Access, since Gold Open Access is projected to be associated with revenue reductions for journals and cost increases for libraries:…[Read more]

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In this post, Roger van Zwanenberg from Pluto Journals describes the context for its transition to Open Access, e.g., the decreasing viability of closed access, what decision-making options were available and the implications of the library-funded model, for journals as opposed to books:…[Read more]

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The latest post at the Open Research Community discusses how the rise of Open Access is likely driven by market mechanisms affecting the scholarly publishing industry. As the post suggests, Open Access increases the possibilities for dynamic responses to shifts in aggregate supply and demand on the side of both institutions and…[Read more]

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This blog post briefly reviews the highlights of the Open Research Community (ORC) since its launch in early 2020: https://openresearch.community/posts/the-open-research-community-in-2020-a-year-in-review.

More specifically, in the last year, the ORC registered around 104,000 page views, had almost 28,000 new and returning visitors,…[Read more]

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The following post provides a commentary on an unpublished thesis of Emily Nunn on Open Access to health and education research outside academia: https://openresearch.community/posts/overlapping-lay-and-professional-constituencies-of-open-access-publishing-in-specialized-research-domains.

It largely argues that the production and…[Read more]

Recently, I have reviewed the Frankfurt Academic Conference 2020.

Its presenters have delved into the implications of Open Access transitions for various players, their interrelations internationally and locally, stakeholder engagement, library budgets and institutional strategies: https://openresearch.community/posts/the-2020-installment-of-the-f…[Read more]