Open Access in the United Kingdom
Author : Martin Paul Eve The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland has been a leader in the advance towards open access (OA) to scholarship and r...
Étiquette : open access
Monitoring the transition to open access: December 2017
The studies on which this report is based were undertaken by a team led by Michael Jubb and comprising Andrew Plume, Stephanie Oeben and Lydia Brammer, Elsevier...
Where Are We Now? Survey on Rates of Faculty Self-Deposit in Institutional Repositories
Author : Ruth Kitchin Tillman INTRODUCTION The literature of institutional repositories generally indicates that faculty do not self-deposit, but there is a gap...
Green on What Side of the Fence? Librarian Perceptions of Accepted Author Manuscripts
Authors : Jimmy Ghaphery, Sam Byrd, Hillary Miller INTRODUCTION There is a growing body of accepted author manuscripts (AAMs) in national, professional, and ins...
Examining publishing practices: moving beyond the idea of predatory open access
Author : Kevin L. Smith The word ‘predatory’ has become an obstacle to a serious discussion of publishing practices. Its use has been both overinclusive, encomp...
Faculty Attitudes toward Open Access and Scholarly Communications: Disciplinary Differences on an Urban and Health Science Campus
Authors : Jere Odell, Kristi Palmer, Emily Dill Access to scholarship in the health sciences has greatly increased in the last decade. The adoption of the 2008 ...
The role of the library in scholarly publishing: The University of Manchester experience
Author : Simon Bains The emergence of networked digital methods of scholarly dissemination has transformed the role of the academic library in the context of th...