Altruism or Self-Interest? Exploring the Motivations of Open Access Authors
Authors : Robert Heaton, Dylan Burns, Becky Thoms More than 250 authors at Utah State University published an Open Access (OA) article in 2016. Analysis of surv...
Étiquette : open access publishing
Open access availability of Catalonia research output: Case analysis of the CERCA institution, 2011-2015
Authors : Anna Rovira, Cristóbal Urbano, Ernest Abadal The open access availability of publications by Catalonia’s CERCA research centres was analysed to determ...
Article Processing Charge Hyperinflation and Price Insensitivity: An Open Access Sequel to the Serials Crisis
Author: Shaun Yon-Seng Khoo Open access publishing has frequently been proposed as a solution to the serials crisis, which involved unsustainable budgetary pres...
Common Struggles: Policy-based vs. scholar-led approaches to open access in the humanities
Author : Samuel A. Moore Open access publishing (OA) not only removes price and permission restrictions to academic research, but also represents an opportunity...
The Price of Gold: Curiosity?
Authors : Daniel W. Hook, Mark Hahnel, Christian Herzog Gold open access as characterised by the payment of an article processing charge (APC) has become one of...
If Research Libraries and Funders Finance Open Access: Moving Beyond Subscriptions and APCs
Authors : John Willinsky, Matthew Rusk Following the examples of SCOAP3, in which libraries fund open access, and eLife, in which funding agencies have begun to...
The Two-Way Street of Open Access Journal Publishing: Flip It and Reverse It
Authors : Lisa Matthias, Najko Jahn, Mikael Laakso As Open access (OA) is often perceived as the end goal of scholarly publishing, much research has focused on ...