Centering Accessibility: A Review of Institutional Repository Policy and Practice
Authors : Talea Anderson, Chelsea Leachman INTRODUCTION Libraries have proposed institutional repositories as a means of providing universal access to universit...
Étiquette : open access
Transformative agreements: Do they pave the way to open access?
Authors : Ángel Borrego, Lluís Anglada, Ernest Abadal Transformative agreements, also known as ‘offsetting’, ‘read and publish’, or ‘publish and read’ agreement...
How is open access publishing going down with early career researchers? An international, multi-disciplinary study
Authors : David Nicholas, Hamid R. Jamali, Eti Herman, Jie Xu, Chérifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri, Anthony Watkinson, Blanca Rodríguez-Bravo, Abdullah Abrizah, Marzena ...
Open Academic Book Publishing during COVID-19 Pandemic: A View on Romanian University Presses
Authors : Mariana Cernicova-Buca, Katalin Luzan In the context of the 2020 public health crisis that discourages exchanges of physical objects in society, unive...
Swedish researchers’ responses to the cancellation of the big deal with Elsevier
Authors: Lisa Olsson, Camilla Lindelöw, Lovisa Österlund, Frida Jakobsson In 2018, the Swedish library consortium, Bibsam, decided to cancel big deal subscripti...
Open Science for private Interests? How the Logic of Open Science Contributes to the Commercialization of Research
Author : Manuela Fernández Pinto Financial conflicts of interest, several cases of scientific fraud, and research limitations from strong intellectual property ...
How is open access accused of being predatory? The impact of Beall’s lists of predatory journals on academic publishing
Authors : Franciszek Krawczyk, Emanuel Kulczycki The aim of this paper is to investigate how predatory journals are characterized by authors who write about suc...