The One Repo: background, implementation and call for funding
« As scholarly communication undergoes seismic changes, endless opportunities are opening up. In an open-access world, there is potential for Internet-enabled r...
Étiquette : open access
From Concerned to Cautiously Optimistic: Assessing Faculty Perceptions and Knowledge of Open Access in a Campus-Wide Study
« INTRODUCTION : Though open access publishing has many advantages for scholars, very few are interested in learning about and pursuing open access publishing. ...
The public impact of Latin America’s approach to open access
« This study explores the extent to which research published in Latin America—where the vast majority of which is made freely available to the public—has an imp...
Amplifying the Impact of Open Access: Wikipedia and the Diffusion of Science
Authors : Misha Teplitskiy, Grace Lu, Eamon Duede With the rise of Wikipedia as a first-stop source for scientific knowledge, it is important to compare its rep...
Aligning Open Access Publication with the Research and Teaching Missions of the Public University: The Case of the Lethbridge Journal Incubator (If ‘if’s and ‘and’s were pots and pans)
« The Lethbridge Journal Incubator is a joint project of the University of Lethbridge Library, School of Graduate Studies, and Faculty of Arts and Science. Its ...
The Changing Publication Practices in Academia: Inherent Uses and Issues in Open Access and Online Publishing and the Rise of Fraudulent Publications
« Open access and online publishing present significant changes to the Australian higher education sector in a climate demanding increasing research outputs fro...
Donations as a Source of Income for Open Access Journals: An Option To Consider?
« Online open access journals allow readers to view scholarly articles without a subscription or other payment barrier. However, publishing costs must still be ...