The prehistory of biology preprints: a forgotten experiment from the 1960s
Author : Matthew Cobb In 1961, the NIH began to circulate biological preprints in a forgotten experiment called the Information Exchange Groups (IEGs). This sys...
Étiquette : open access
Future Challenges and Opportunities in Academic Publishing
Author : Kyle Siler Digitization and the rise of Open Access publishing is an important recent development in academic communication. The current publishing sys...
Research Management: Combining Platforms, Practices, and Policies
Author : Shawn Martin Research management is about more than open access and it is about more than creating online publishing platforms. It is about creating on...
Open Access and OER in Latin America: A survey of the policy landscape in Chile, Colombia and Uruguay
Author : Amalia Toledo This chapter presents an overview of the mechanisms (funding, policy, legislative and procedural) adopted by Latin American governments w...
Who is Actually Harmed by Predatory Publishers?
Authors : Martin Paul Eve, Ernesto Priego “Predatory publishing” refers to conditions under which gold open-access academic publishers claim to conduct peer rev...
The legal and policy framework for scientific data sharing, mining and reuse
Author : Mélanie Dulong de Rosnay Text and Data Mining, the automatic processing of large amounts of scientific articles and datasets, is an essential practice ...
The State of OA: A large-scale analysis of the prevalence and impact of Open Access articles
Authors : Heather Piwowar, Jason Priem, Vincent Larivière, Juan Pablo Alperin, Lisa Matthias, Bree Norlander, Ashley Farley, Jevin West, Stefanie Haustein Despi...