Tag: Open access
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Massive open-access database on human cultures created
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D-PLACE — the Database of Places, Language, Culture and Environment — is an expandable, open access database that brings together a dispersed body of information on the language, geography, culture and environment of more than 1,400 human societies. It comprises information mainly on pre-industrial societies that were described by ethnographers in the 19th and early…
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Two-thirds of UK academics back open access, survey finds
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Jisc/RLUK study charts sector’s shift towards making research freely available online Nearly two-thirds of UK researchers support the abolition of journal subscription fees and a move to open access, according to a major study. A survey of 6,679 academics commissioned by Jisc and Research Libraries UK found that 64 per cent of respondents supported making…
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EU Puts Forward Ambitious Open Access Target
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All publicly-funded research to be fully accessible by 2020. The European Competitiveness Council has announced that all publicly-funded scientific papers should be available on fully open access platforms by 2020. The council, which is chaired by the Netherlands State secretary for Education, Culture and Science and brings together ministers of science, innovation, trade and industry…
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Directory of Open Access Journals removes thousands of journals from its database
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The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), a leading open access journals’ index, has decided to tighten the standards for journals’ acceptance, in order to rule out dubious and inactive publishers. Functioning on a voluntary basis, DOAJ is a community-curated list of peer-reviewed open access journals. In the past few years, the number of journals indexed at…
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Amsterdam Call for Action on Open Science is released
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The Netherlands announced the Amsterdam Call for Action on Open Science which came out of open science conference. For the country a common approach to open science is one of the major focus area during its EU Presidency. With this open science initiative the aim is promoting open access to scientific publications and reuse of…
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Diamond Open Access
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Free to read and free to publish The primary move towards Open Access is caused by a belief that the results of scientific research are a public good. Therefore, they should be available and accessible to all, regardless of citizens’ ability to pay. Over the years, the Open Access movement has challenged traditional (subscription based)…
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Open Access vs Predator
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Predatory Open Access publishers on the rise The increase in so-called “predatory” Open Access publishers is posing a threat to the integrity of Open Access publishing. Predatory Open Access publishers charge authors high publishing fees without providing proper editorial and peer review services. They are abusing the opportunity created by the Gold Open Access publishing…
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FAO plans to launch open access agricultural data portal
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The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) announced that it will launch an Open Access portal for agricultural data in October. The agricultural data portal, once launched, will contain both raw and analyzed satellite data. It will be easily and freely accessible for everyone. The data and information from this Open Access portal will…
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Reputation Of Open Access Journals On The Rise
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Academics’ perceptions on Open Access are improving. One of the challenges Open Access publishing has been facing is a perceived lack of quality. The perception is so rampant that it casts a big shadow not only on Open Access journals but also on authors. It’s a very serious issue which held back many researchers from…
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Open access contributes to economic and social development
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International development agencies and organizations are loudly acknowledging the tremendous contributions open access to data might have for development- both on economic and social fronts. The policy statementreleased by the Canadian International Development Research Center (IDRC) is a testament to this. Moreover, the views from the recently concludedconference on open data, argued Stephen Dale, underscored…
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Dutch universities and Elsevier fail to reach consensus on open access
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Recently, scholars and several research libraries have rolled out a petition to boycott Elsevier, the biggest scholarly materials publisher, in protest of its new open access policy. Elsevier, an Amsterdam based company, again faced another set of challenges- this time it’s homegrown. The Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU- its Dutch acronym) has announced…
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Representatives of research libraries discuss open science bottlenecks
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The Association of European Research Libraries commonly known as LIBER organized an event which focused on exploring challenges open science faces. The London conference attracted delegates from more than 40 countries. LIBER is a global network of 404 university libraries, research libraries and national libraries. The European commission has made open science one of its…
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Academic publishers enjoy huge profits
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We all know what sort of the challenge digital age brought to a publishing industry. Print media has literally gone out of business. The remaining few are struggling for their very survival. This is not, however, the case for academic publishers. Online journal publication and dissemination led to the elimination of various costs. Meanwhile, for…
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Stanford is going to establish open access repository of Bioinformatics
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Stanford has got a grant to establish an open access repository of Bioinformatics on autism . This repository, according to Dennis Wall (PhD) who leads the project, is going to be the biggest ever built of its kind. This project, beyond contributing towards finding a breakthrough in autism research, also adds momentum to an open…
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American Society of Clinical Oncology Commits to Open-Access Publishing
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American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) commits itself to make its highly valued journals readily available to public on open access platforms. The ASCO does so because it believes making scientific research out puts help advance its goal of curing cancer. To make this a reality, the ASCO, will make its publications such as Journal…
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The new Elesevier’s sharing policy comes under criticism
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Knowledge institutions and organizations are denouncing a new sharing and hosting policy recently adopted by publisher Elsevier. Their concern: the policy undermines open-access policies at learning institutions and also prevents authors from sharing publicly their work. Elsevier, which publishes thousands of journals, introduced the policy last month. It aims to strike a balance between making…
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International Repository Networks want to expand and strengthen their collaboration
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There have been numerous ongoing efforts to bring open access repository networks from around the world closer. This also includes major efforts to align ever expanding repository networks. Recently Confederation of Open access Repositories (COAR), taking the lead, has organized a meeting which was held on April 16, 2015. The meeting was held in Port,…
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Asian Development Bank Embraces Open Access
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Since it was founded in 1966, the Asian Development Bank has been the leading organization fighting poverty in the Asian and Pacific region. The organisation set its goal to enhance economic collaboration by investing in regional projects. Currently, the Asian Development Bank has 67 members. All of them are countries funding the projects. The Asian…
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US Agencies push public access with new article repositories
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There is good news for researchers and analysts looking for research papers produced or sponsored by the government. The National Institute for Standards and Technology will be establishing a “free-to-read” repository of academic articles. NIST’s public access plan is aimed to comply with policy directives from the White House regarding open access to the results…
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US Agencies Fall in Line on Public Access with the rest
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After a decade of often fierce debate over whether the public should have free access to the scientific papers produced by their tax dollars, advocates for so-called open access celebrated a notable victory last month: The National Science Foundation (NSF) unveiled a plan to require its grantees to make their research freely available. NSF’s move…
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European University Association launches Open Access checklist for universities
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EUA this week launched the ‘Open Access checklist for universities: A practical guide on implementation’, a concise document to support universities in developing institutional policies on Open Access to research publications. The Open Access checklist is addressed to higher education and research institutions that are developing, or planning to develop, a policy on Open Access…
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Springer and Jisc agree model to reduce cost of open access and subscriptions
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Springer SBM and Jisc have agreed an arrangement to take into account UK scientists’ need to comply with multiple open access policies while accessing scientific articles published by Springer, while containing the combined costs of article processing charges and subscriptions. The proposed agreement will cap the amount paid by UK higher education (HE) institutions to…
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EU FP-7 project RECODE has released findings of its case studies in open access to research data
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The EU FP-7 project RECODE has released findings of its case studies in open access to research data. RECODE (Policy RECommendations for Open Access to Research Data in Europe) held its final conference last week in Athens, coinciding with publication of a short booklet summarising the project findings and the following ten over-arching recommendations: -Develop…
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UNESCO Unvails Open Access (OA) Curriculum
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“Building inclusive Knowledge Societies through information and communication” is one of the key objectives for UNESCO’s Medium-Term Strategy. By adopting this objective, UNESCO Member States have recognized that knowledge plays a key role in economic growth, social development, cultural enrichment and democratic empowerment. This decision of the Members States has influenced UNESCO‘s Open Access program,…
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Dubai to adopt mandatory open data policy
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Sharing data sets of public and private information will become mandatory in Dubai. A bill in this regard will be made into law later this year. With the exception of private, restricted and classified data and information that threatens national security, all data must be made available in public domains, officials said on Monday. The…