Article processing charge expenditure in Chile: The current situation
Author : Erwin Krauskopf The National Agency of Research and Development from Chile is proposing, for the first time, a national OA policy aiming to ensure acce...
Étiquette : open access
Over-promotion and caution in abstracts of preprints during the COVID-19 crisis
Authors : Frederique Bordignon, Liana Ermakova, Marianne Noel The abstract is known to be a promotional genre where researchers tend to exaggerate the benefit o...
Game theory and scholarly publishing: premises for an agreement around open access
Author : Abdelghani Maddi Stakeholders in research and scientific publishing are gradually joining the Open-Access (OA) movement, which is gaining momentum to b...
Article Processing Charges based publications: to which extent the price explains scientific impact?
Authors : Abdelghani Maddi, David Sapinho The present study aims to analyze relationship between Citations Normalized Score (NCS) of scientific publications and...
The Changing Landscape of Open Access Publishing: Can Open Access Publishing Make the Scholarly World More Equitable and Productive?
Author : Richard G. Dudley Almost 50% of scholarly articles are now open access in some form. This greatly benefits scholars at most institutions and is especia...
Open access book usage data – how close is COUNTER to the other kind?
Author : Ronald Snijder In April 2020, the OAPEN Library moved to a new platform, based on DSpace 6. During the same period, IRUS-UK started working on the depl...
Day-to-day discovery of preprint–publication links
Authors : Guillaume Cabanac, Theodora Oikonomidi, Isabelle Boutron Preprints promote the open and fast communication of non-peer reviewed work. Once a preprint ...