Study of Open Access Publishing in Social Sciences and its Implications for Libraries
The Open Access Movement (OAM), which started as a gradual realisation by authors mainly in biomedical sciences to make available results of public-funded resea...
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It Takes More than a Mandate: Factors that Contribute to Increased Rates of Article Deposit to an Institutional Repository
“INTRODUCTION Many institutions have open access (OA) policies that require faculty members to deposit their articles in an institutional repository (IR)....
Getting the Word Out Academic Libraries as Scholarly Publishers
“In the past decade there has been an intense growth in the number of library publishing services supporting faculty and students. Unified by a commitment...
Open Access Article Processing Charges: DOAJ Survey May 2014
As of May 2014, the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) listed close to ten thousand fully open access, peer reviewed, scholarly journals. Most of these jo...
Landscapes of Research: Perceptions of Open Access (OA) Publishing in the Arts and Humanities
“It is widely known now that scholarly communication is in crisis, resting on an academic publishing model that is unsustainable. One response to this cri...
Open Access Policy: Numbers, Analysis, Effectiveness
“The PASTEUR4OA project is focused on Open Access policy developments and is undertaking a number of activities relating to policy, including mapping poli...
The Open Access Advantage Considering Citation, Article Usage and Social Media Attention
“In this study, we compare the difference in the impact between open access (OA) and non-open access (non-OA) articles. 1761 Nature Communications article...