Leveraging Elsevier’s Creative Commons License Requirement to Undermine Embargo
Author : Josh Bolick In the last round of author-sharing policy revisions, Elsevier created a labyrinthine title-by-title embargo structure requiring embargoes ...
Étiquette : open access
The use and perceptions of open Access resources by legal academics at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa
Author : Elizabeth Moll-Willard Although access to primary legal materials in South Africa is now easily accessible as a result of the Free Access to Law moveme...
How significant are the public dimensions of faculty work in review, promotion, and tenure documents?
Authors : Juan Pablo Alperin, Gustavo E. Fischman, Erin C. McKiernan, Carol Muñoz Nieves, Meredith T. Niles, Lesley Schimanski Much of the work of universities,...
Measuring Open Access Policy Compliance: Results of a Survey
Authors : Shannon Kipphut-Smith, Michael Boock, Kimberly Chapman, Michaela Willi Hooper INTRODUCTION In the last decade, a significant number of institutions ha...
APCs – Mirroring the impact factor or legacy of the subscription-based model?
Author : Nina Schönfelder With the ongoing open-access transformation, article processing charges (APCs) are gaining importance as the dominant business model f...
Agriculture Journals Covered by Directory of Open Access Journals: An Analytical Study
Author : Muruli Acharya With the advent of open access movement, open access journals (OAJs) being the prodigious source of academic and research information ha...
Altmetrics of the Open Access Institutional Repositories: A Webometrics Approach
Author : Isidro F. Aguillo Self-archiving in Institutional Repositories (IRs) is playing a central role in the success of the Open Access initiatives. Deposited...