Tag: Open access
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5 Must-Reads to Understand How Open Access Can Shape Research on Covid-19
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COVID-19 could kill the for-profit science publishing model. That would be a good thing. by Michael Hilrzik LA Times, March 3, 2020 “Of all the ways the current coronavirus crisis has upended commonplace routines — such as disrupting global supply chains and forcing workers to stay at home — one of the most positive is…
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Weekly Open Access Must-Reads (11-15 November 2019)
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A selection of this week’s news, opinions and feature articles about open access, academia and the publishing industry. 1. Room for everyone’s talent Erkennen en waarderen in de wetenschap gaan drastisch veranderen (in Dutch) By Sicco de Knecht in Science Guide Date: 13 November 2019 Read it here in English or here in Dutch …
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International OA week 2018: Designing Equitable Foundations for Open Knowledge
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Open access has increasingly become the new norm. Countries and research funders are embracing open access. Many set targets to reach 100% open access before 2020. However, issues related to equitable sharing, diversity and inclusion is not fully addressed, according to a statement by SPARC. Open access should serve the need of all scholarly communities…
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French research institutions and Springer Nature failed to sign a new contract
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French research institutions, following the measure taken by their counterparts in Germany, refused to agree on a new deal with Springer, one of the leading academic journals publishers. As a result, there is no new contract between the French research institutions and Springer Nature since the beginning of 2018. According to Times Higher Education report,…
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Open Access Academic Books are More Downloaded and Cited
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A research conducted by Springer Nature reveals that publishing academic books on open access platforms have many benefits. This report, according to Springer Nature, is the first of its kind to make a comparative analysis of open access and non-open access academic books. The study highlights the benefits open access books has provided to authors,…
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Open Access Week 2017
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Over the past several days, we have been celebrating International Open Access Week. Ten years after its introduction in the United States, Open Access Week is now celebrated worldwide. Its goal is to increase open access awareness and bring the role open access plays in science and society to the public. It is a scholarly…
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Study shows that Open Access On the Rise
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Open-access papers are more popular in the scholarly literature than they’ve ever been, and this trend shows no signs of abating, according to a study of hundreds of thousands of papers published in journals spanning disciplines from physics and astronomy to chemistry and social science. The sprawling study, published this week (August 2) in PeerJ, found…
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European Open Science Cloud: building a research data e-infrastructure
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European research and institutional repositories are very much fragmented. The fragmentation has led to inefficiencies which might have impeded the speed of research and innovation. To address this issue, the European Commission has been working to realize a massive e-infrastructure- European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). The EOSC will combine various data infrastructures to provide fast and seamless access to data. The EOSC will be a…
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The cost of open access to Germany research and educational intuitions
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There are two avenues for publishing open access articles: The Gold and Green open access. Access to open access journals is free of charge. Nonetheless, there is always cost associated with publishing or disseminating open access articles. There is no publication cost for Green open access articles- they are uploaded in institutional repositories without undergoing…
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Unpaywall Plug-In: Open Access advocates’ new approach to bring paywall down
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Impactstory, a nonprofit organization working to advance open access, has unveiled Unpaywall a browser plug-in that gives users easy access to electronic open access scientific articles. This plugin, according to Futurism, scans more than 90 million open access articles with Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs). Unpaywall’s plug-in is compatible with Chrome and Firefox web browsers. It is funded…
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Nextstrain.org wins Open Science Prize
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Nextstrain.org, a website that enables researchers visualize and track virus evolution in real time, has won Open Science Prize. Nextstrain.org’s model integrates shared and open data from various global research teams to facilitate pathogen surveillance and epidemiological investigations, PLOS reports. Currently, Nextstrain.org is tracking the evolution of Ebola, Zika, Avian Influenza and Influenza viruses. Its…
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The Gates Foundation came up with an open access publishing platform
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation launched the Gates Open Access, an open access publishing platform, the Nature report shows. With this platform, the Gates Foundation hopes to accelerate publication of articles and data. The Foundation does not play editorial oversight and it contracted management of publishing services to F1000Research, an organization that is known for quickly publishing open…
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Berkeley commits to accelerating universal open access, signs the OA2020 Expression of Interest
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Berkeley | The University Library at UC Berkeley took a major step today in its commitment to achieving universal open access for scholarly journal literature by signing the OA2020 Expression of Interest, in collaboration with UC Davis and UC San Francisco. OA2020 is an international movement, led by the Max Planck Digital Library in Munich,…
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FP7 post-grant open access pilot project is coming to an end
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In 2015, the EU FP7 announced a post-grant pilot project to ensure all FP7 funded projects are published in open access, even after the funding program ended. The objective of this pilot project is to encourage researchers to publish their work on open access platforms. To ensure this, the EU makes post-FP7 published articles eligible…
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Science journals permit open-access publishing for Gates Foundation scholars
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Nature | If research funders demand open-access publishing, will subscription journals acquiesce? An announcement today by the publisher of Science suggests they will — as long as that funder is as influential as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The global health charity, based in Seattle, Washington, has partnered with the American Association for the Advancement of…
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Academic.edu is facing mounting pressure from scholars
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Academia.edu is facing mounting pressure from academics and open access advocates. It has been challenged because of its dubious business model: many believe that its model is mainly driven by profit-making motive. Problem comes with how Academia.edu is trying to generate revenue. Furthermore, Academia.edu’s business practices lack transparency. Therefore, ‘it is time to deleteAcademia.edu account,’ says Sarah…
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Gates Foundation funded research face challenges to publish on top-tier journals
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Researchers funded by the Gates Foundation are facing difficulties publishing on some top-tier journals. This is due to open access (OA) policy that the Gates Foundation and journal publishers follow, according to the Nature’s writer Richard Van Noorden. The Gates Foundation in 2014 put open access policy that mandates immediate open access publishing. It also…
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Open and Post Peer Review: New Trends in Open Access Publications
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The quality of scientific publications will benefit from a revolution in the peer review models. The peer review system was created in the 20th century as a means to ensure the quality and integrity of scientific research. Until recently, peer review mostly took place before articles have been published, relying on ‘single blind’ and ‘double…
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Peer-reviewed and non-peer reviewed publications: Ways of telling the diffrenece
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By Sonja Puzic|In a sea of information that’s just at our fingertips, it can sometimes be difficult to distinguish between scholarly articles and bogus research that’s harmful to science. The issue is even more pressing with the proliferation of so-called “predatory publishers,” who often distribute poorly-vetted or fake research. We answer some questions that can…
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Open access ‘boosts citations by a fifth’
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By David Matthews| Open access papers attract up to a fifth more citations than those locked away in closed journals, a new study has found. Jim Ottaviani, librarian at the University of Michigan, looked at what happened when his institution made papers available through its repository and found that “an open access citation advantage as high…
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Open Access Academic Journals Gaining Broad Readership
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By Henderson| The publishing industry has been witnessing several technical and strategic changes over the years and Open Access publishing is one of the popular publication models that has received wider acknowledgement from the scientific community. Open access publishing is producing 2 million articles annually and increasing global employment in the publishing industry. The present…
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US Gov’t Takes On Predatory Publishers
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By Carl Straumsheim| The Federal Trade Commission on Friday filed a complaint against the academic journal publisher OMICS Group and two of its subsidiaries, saying the publisher deceives scholars and misrepresents the editorial rigor of its journals. The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada, marks the first time the FTC…
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The Acceleration of Open Access
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Does it seem like a lot is going on all of a sudden, or am I just old and out of touch? (Don’t answer that.) I noted with loud applause the launch of SocArXiv just in the nick of time. SSRN had been a for-profit but pretty useful place to store papers in the social…
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Strengthening Research through Data Sharing
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Data sharing has incredible potential to strengthen academic research, the practice of medicine, and the integrity of the clinical trial system. Some benefits are obvious: when researchers have access to complete data, they can answer new questions, explore different lines of analysis, and more efficiently conduct large-scale analyses across trials. Other advantages, such as providing…
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Journal impact factors do not reflect article quality and impact
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For many years, within the scientific and publishing arena, the journal impact factors (JIFs) has been the most commonly used and referred to approach of research output impact (quality) measurement approach. This approach which focuses on journal quality measurement has many flows, research indicates. Though it is still widely used, the journal impact factor has come…