The impact of digital copyright law and policy on access to knowledge and learning
Authors : Tana Pistorius, Odirachukwu S. Mwim Background The evolution in digital technologies has had an enormous impact on traditional copyright notions. Work...
Étiquette : open access
Open Access Routes Dichotomy and Opportunities: Consolidation, Analysis and Trends at the Spanish National Research Council
Authors : Mercedes Baquero-Arribas, Luis Dorado, Isabel Bernal This article gives a comprehensive overview of recent Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) pu...
Narrowing the Gap Between Publication and Access: Is a Mandate Enough to Get Us Closer?
Authors : Maria Manuel Borges, António Tavares Lopes Changes brought about by the Internet to Scholarly Communication and the spread of Open Access movement, ha...
The effect of bioRxiv preprints on citations and altmetrics
Authors : Nicholas Fraser, Fakhri Momeni, Philipp Mayr, Isabella Peters A potential motivation for scientists to deposit their scientific work as preprints is t...
Library Subscriptions and Open Access: Highlights from the University of California Negotiations with Elsevier
Authors : Cory Tucker, Andrea Wirth, Annette Day On February 28, 2019, the University of California (UC) System announced the cancellation of their $50 million ...
Open access policies of leading medical journals: a cross-sectional study
Authors : Tim S Ellison, Laura Schmidt, Amy Williams, Christopher C Winchester Objectives Academical and not-for-profit research funders are increasingly requir...
« Blacklists » and « whitelists » to tackle predatory publishing : A cross-sectional comparison and thematic analysis
Authors : Michaela Strinzel, Anna Severin, Katrin Milzow, Matthias Egger Background Despite growing awareness of predatory publishing and research on its marke...