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Open Access — What Do Authors Really Want?

Alice Meadows | The Scholarly Kitchen | November 1, 2012

There’s no doubt that open access (OA) is becoming more and more popular with authors...So what do authors themselves think about OA? Does it affect where they choose to publish? What are their reasons for publishing – or not publishing – in an OA journal? The results of a recent Wiley survey provide some interesting answers. Read More »

Open Access: Effective Measures To Put UK Research Online Under Threat?

Martin Paul Eve, Stephen Curry and Alma Swan | Guardian.com | July 28, 2014

The universities of the UK should not squander the opportunity to put in place an effective mechanism for making their published research freely available...

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Open Access: Six Myths To Put To Rest

Peter Suber | The Guardian | October 21, 2013

Open access to academic research has never been a hotter topic. But it's still held back by myths and misunderstandings repeated by people who should know better. The good news is that open access has been successful enough to attract comment from beyond its circle of pioneers and experts. The bad news is that a disappointing number of policy-makers, journalists and academics opine in public without doing their homework. Read More »

Open Access: Springer Tightens Rules On Self-Archiving

Richard Poynder | Open and Shut? | June 25, 2013

Last month Danny Kingsley — Executive Officer of the Australian Open Access Support Group (AOASG) — highlighted a number of publishers that have recently changed their self-archiving (Green OA) policies. Amongst those named by Kingsley was Springer [...]. Read More »

Open Access: Where Are We, What Still Needs To Be Done?

Richard Poynder | Open and Shut? | July 1, 2013

Making Open Access (OA) a reality has proved considerably more difficult and time consuming than OA advocates expected when they started out. It is now 19 years since cognitive scientist Stevan Harnad posted his Subversive Proposal calling on researchers to make their papers freely available on the Web [...]. Read More »

Publishers Have A New Strategy For Neutralizing Open Access -- And It's Working

Glyn Moody | Techdirt | March 15, 2013

Over the last few years, Techdirt has been reporting on a steady stream of victories for open access. Along the way publishers have tried various counter-attacks, which all proved dismal failures. But there are signs that they have changed tack, and come up with a more subtle -- and increasingly successful -- approach. Read More »

Publishing And The POOC, Or, Why We Need Open Access

Polly Thistlethwaite | Just Publics @ 365 | February 17, 2013

Isn’t everything up on the internet for free? Yes, most new books and articles appear in digital format, but NO-O-O they’re not (yet) mostly free. Libraries pay big bucks to license them, and the licenses require libraries to restrict access to narrow audiences (students, faculty, or people physically inside the library). Read More »

RCUK Announces Block Grants For Universities To Aid Drives To Open Access To Research Outputs

Press Release | Research Councils UK | November 8, 2012

Research Councils UK has today, 8th November, announced the details of the block grant funding mechanism that it is introducing to aid implementation of its policy on Open Access that was announced in July and is due to come into effect in April 2013. Read More »

Re-inventing Academic Publishing: 'Diamond' Open Access Titles That Are Free To Read And Free To Publish

Gyn Moody | Techdirt | January 22, 2013

As Techdirt has been reporting, the idea of providing open access to publicly-funded research is steadily gaining ground. One of the key moments occurred almost exactly a year ago, when the British mathematician Tim Gowers announced that he would no longer have anything to do with the major academic publisher Elsevier... Read More »

Review Of Open Access In Economics

Ross Mounce | Open Knowledge Foundation | October 30, 2012

Ever since BioMed Central (BMC) published its first free online article on July 19th 2000, the Open Access movement has made significant progress, so much so that many different stakeholders now see 100% Open Access to research as inevitable in the near future. Read More »

SPIE ‘Gold’ Open Access Program Meets New Needs Of UK Authors - And Others

Press Release | SPIE | April 23, 2013

An open access publishing program recently adopted by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, supports the needs of authors seeking open access publication, including authors affected by new rules adopted in the United Kingdom by the Research Councils UK (RCUK). Read More »

SPIE ‘Gold’ Open Access Program Meets New Needs Of UK Authors -- And Others

Press Release | Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) | April 23, 2013

An open access publishing program recently adopted by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, supports the needs of authors seeking open access publication, including authors affected by new rules adopted in the United Kingdom by the Research Councils UK (RCUK). Read More »

Suber: Leader Of A Leaderless Revolution

Richard Poynder | Information Today, Inc | July 1, 2011

What is remarkable about the open access (OA) movement is that despite having no formal structure, no official organization, and no appointed leader, it has (in the teeth of opposition from incumbent publishers) triggered a radical transformation in a publishing system that had changed little in 350 years... Read More »

That Was The Open Access Week That Was

Stephen Curry | Reciprocal Space | November 5, 2012

A round-up of some of the issues that got an airing during Open Access (OA) Week and in the days that followed, including more rumination on the implementation and implications of the RCUK OA policy, more bad (and some good) publisher behaviour, ideas for new directions in OA publishing and, finally, an important African perspective on the rumbling debate. Read More »

The Case For Interoperability For Open Access Repositories

Staff Writer | Confederation of Open Access Repositories | July 1, 2012

The purpose of this paper is to provide a high-level overview of interoperability of Open Access repositories, identify the major issues and challenges that need to be addressed, stimulate the engagement of the repository community and launch a process that will lead to the establishment of a COAR roadmap for repository interoperability. Read More »