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...
Étiquette : open access
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...
Connecting the Knowledge Commons — From Projects to Sustainable Infrastructure
Authors : Leslie Chan, Pierre Mounier The question of sustainability in the open access movement has been widely debated, yet satisfactory answers have yet to b...
Institutional Repositories for Public Engagement : Creating a Common Good Model for an Engaged Campus
Authors : Erik A. Moore, Valerie M. Collins, Lisa R. Johnston Most higher-education institutions strive to be publicly engaged and community centered. These ins...
The Enlightenment of Peer Review : How Academic Librarians Can Utilize Open Peer Review Methods to Advance Information Literacy
Author : Sandra Moore In today’s world of digital scholarly publishing, it is increasingly clear that movements such as open access (OA), Open Science, and open...
Who’s writing open access (OA) articles? Characteristics of OA authors at Ph.D.-granting institutions in the United States
Authors : Anthony J. Olejniczak, Molly J. Wilson The open access (OA) publication movement aims to present research literature to the public at no cost and with...