Open access in Angola: a survey among higher education institutions
Authors : Wileidys Artigas, Eurico Wongo Gungula, Mikael Laakso Open access (OA) to research publications is of global relevance, both in terms of provision and...
Étiquette : open access
Does Open Access Really Increase Impact? A Large-Scale Randomized Analysis
Authors : Abdelghani Maddi, David Sapinho The Open Access Citation Advantage (OACA) has been a major topic of discussion in the literature over the past twenty ...
How transformative agreements are actually transforming the subscription system: a society publisher’s perspective
Authors : Graham Anderson, Jade Heyman, Maggie Simmons Transformative agreements (TAs) are useful tools to accelerate the growth in open access (OA) for small p...
Preprint citation practice in PLOS
Authors : Marc Bertin, Iana Atanassova The role of preprints in the scientific production and their part in citations have been growing over the past 10 years. ...
Should open access lead to closed research? The trends towards paying to perform research
Authors : Lin Zhang, Yahui Wei, Ying Huang, Gunnar Sivertsen Open Access (OA) emerged as an important transition in scholarly publishing worldwide during the pa...
OA isn’t free, it costs folks like you and me. How open access ideology obscures labour inequity in academia
Author : John Bryans Despite the framing of open access (OA) as a progressive movement that challenges neoliberalism and champions the public good, academic lab...
From library budget to information budget: fostering transparency in the transformation towards open access
Author: Heinz Pampel The discussion on the transformation of scholarly journals to open access (OA) increasingly concerns financial aspects. Considering the var...