Dear All,

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]

Dear All,

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]

Dear All,

The following post provides a commentary on an unpublished thesis of Emily Nunn on Open Access to health and education research outside academia: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]