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...
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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 crisis h...
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 policies ...
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 articles pub...
Better Sharing Through Licenses? Measuring the Influence of Creative Commons Licenses on the Usage of Open Access Monographs
« Introduction : Open Access and licenses are closely intertwined. Both Creative Commons (CC) and Open Access seek to restore the balance between the owners of...
The “total cost of publication” in a hybrid open-access environment: Institutional approaches to funding journal article-processing charges in combination with subscriptions
« As open-access (OA) publishing funded by article-processing charges (APCs) becomes more widely accepted, academic institutions need to be aware of the “total ...
The Value of Open Access Publishing to Health and Social Care Professionals in Ireland
« This article will focus on how open access publishing may add value to a number of health and social care professionals and their work in the health services....