Electronic Repositories for Preservation of Legal Scholarships
« The growth of electronic repositories (e-repositories) has been found remarkable in facilitating global open access to legal scholarship. Legal repositories a...
Étiquette : open access
Building a Successful Service: Developing Open Access Funding and Advocacy at University College London
« The UK Research Councils (RCUK) introduced an open access policy, and accompanying funding for Article Processing Charges (APCs), in April 2013. This article ...
Comparative analysis of public policies in open access models in Latin America. Brazil and Argentina cases
« This article presents public policies for open access models in Argentina and Brazil, two countries that have pioneered the subject in Latin America. The meth...
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 ...
Estimating Open Access Mandate Effectiveness : I. The MELIBEA Score
« MELIBEA is a Spanish database that uses a composite formula with eight weighted conditions to estimate the effectiveness of Open Access mandates (registered i...
Exposing the predators. Methods to stop predatory journals
« The internet is greatly improving the impact of scholarly journals, but also poses new threats to their quality. Publishers have arisen that abuse the Gold Op...
Open access in South Africa : a case study and reflections
« In this paper, we locate open access in the South African higher education research context where it is, distinctively, not shaped by the policy frameworks th...