The latest strategy for addressing the serials crisis that has fueled the crisis in scholarly publishing across the disciplines is the establishment of transformative open access agreements.
March 16, 2021
The agreement is the largest of its kind in North America to date, bringing together UC, which generates nearly 10 percent of all U.S. research output, and Elsevier, which disseminates about 17 percent of journal articles produced by UC faculty. The deal will double the number of articles made available through UC’s transformative open access agreements.
THE VERGE By Ian Graber-Stiehl Feb 8, 2018
Alexandra Elbakyan opened her email to a message from the world’s largest publisher: "YOU HAVE BEEN SUED." The student and programmer runs Sci-Hub, a website with over 64 million academic papers available for free to anybody in the world.
Opscidia is a free and open access platform which publishes peer-reviewed academic articles and develops technological intelligence tools based on NLP.
Dear MDPI, Your journal publications have grown dramatically, and quite extraordinarily. But there are sceptics who suggest that this reflects low standards and distorting financial incentives. I was one of them. To prove my views I explored trends in publications of 140 journals for which data were available from 2015 onwards. But doing so proved…
ScholarLed will play a key role in a major new project to develop Open Access monograph publishing, supported by a £2.2 million grant from Research England.
Student open access publishing offers a useful avenue for academic information literacy in preparation for real-world experiences. Worthwhile drivers of connected learning, digital research and institutional repositories are practical ecosystems for conveying the complexities of the economics and ethics of information creation, access, and use. Drawing on essential concepts, NSUWorks exemplifies a dynamic tool for learners’ engagement with the research lifecycle and for fostering dispositions of critical thinking, reading, and composing for success and professional development.
Ghost is a fully open source, hackable platform for building and running a modern online publication. We power blogs, magazines and journalists from Zappos to Sky News.
Mit der Initiative MAP fördern die Universität zu Köln und die Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München forschungsstarke junge Geisteswissenschaftler zu Beginn ihrer Karriere. Im Rahmen eines Kooperationsprojektes publiziert MAP ausgewählte Dissertationen und Publikationen von advanced talents aus den geisteswissenschaftlichen Fächern der beiden Universitäten in unterschiedlichen Formaten Open Access unter der Lizenz CC BY 4.0.
The activities of Next Page Foundation are based on the premise that access to knowledge and information is crucial for people’s participation in shaping the societies they live in, and for promoting intercultural understanding. The Foundation thus aims at helping the empowerment of underprivileged groups, languages and countries for an equal participation in the global dialogue of ideas.
F1000Research is an Open Science publishing platform offering immediate publication of posters, slides and articles with no editorial bias. All articles benefit from transparent peer review and the inclusion of all source data.
The Fund for Central and East European Book Projects (CEEBP) was established in Amsterdam in 1992 under the auspices of the European Cultural Foundation. Its aim is to enhance the free flow of thought and information across borders, by supporting quality publishing in Central and Eastern Europe.
MIT Media Lab and the MIT Center for Civic Media. FOLD is an open-source "reading, authoring, and publishing platform allowing storytellers to structure and contextualize stories." build stories using narrative cards and context cards. narrative cards are the blocks of text that tell the story; context cards are the videos, maps, photos, gifs, tweets, interactive visualizations (or just about any other media format) that accompany select words and phrases in each narrative card.
The Winnower is an open access online science publishing platform that employs open post-publication peer review. You guessed it! We think transparency from start to finish is critical in scientific communication. Our aim is to revolutionize science by breaking down the barriers to scientific communication through cost-effective and transparent publishing for scientists.
Website of the Alliance for Networking Visual Culture, featuring information about the online publishing platform Scalar. Born-digital, open source, media-rich scholarly publishing that's as easy as blogging.
Hugh McGuire. Pressbooks is easy-to-use book writing software that lets you create a book in all the formats you need to publish. Pressbooks delivers print-ready files for CreateSpace, IngramSpark and Lightning Source, as well as ebook files optimized to look great in all ebook stores: Amazon Kindle, Apple iBooks, Nook, Kobo, Google Play and more.
Lets you produce beautiful, engaging books in minutes. Booktype is free and open source software that helps you write and publish print and digital books.
Gluejar, Inc. is a privately held company based in Montclair, New Jersey, USA. We operate Unglue.it, the bookstore for books that want to be free. With your help, we will change the world.
Unglue.it is a service provided by Gluejar, Inc. It's a place for individuals and institutions to join together to liberate specific ebooks and other types of digital content by paying authors and publishers to relicense their works under Creative Commons licenses.
ScienceOpen is a freely accessible research network to share and evaluate scientific information. We aggregate Open Access articles from a variety of sources – opening them up to commenting and discussion. Manuscripts submitted to ScienceOpen will be published Open Access and evaluated in a fully transparent Post-Publication Peer Review process.
FORMER WEST is a long-term international research, education, publishing, and exhibition project (2008–2014), which from within the field of contemporary art and theory: (1) reflects upon the changes introduced to the world (and thus to the so-called West) by the political, cultural, artistic, and economic events of 1989; (2) engages in rethinking the global histories of the last two decades in dialogue with post-communist and postcolonial thought; and (3) speculates about a “post-bloc” future that recognizes differences yet evolves through the political imperative of equality and the notion of “one world.”
F. Torres, G. Calvo, und C. Pontes. Medicina clínica, (Dezember 2005)4826<m:linebreak></m:linebreak>JID: 0376377; ppublish;<m:linebreak></m:linebreak>Disseny; Regulació.
K. Schulz, D. Altman, und D. Moher. Annals of internal medicine, 152 (11):
726-32(Juni 2010)5545<m:linebreak></m:linebreak>JID: 0372351; aheadofprint;<m:linebreak></m:linebreak>Publicació.
A. Keech, S. Wonders, D. Cook, und V. Gebski. The Medical journal of Australia, 181 (4):
215-8(August 2004)5103<m:linebreak></m:linebreak>LR: 20071115; JID: 0400714; 2004/07/06 received; 2004/07/08 accepted; ppublish;.
N. Dawson, und R. Weiss. Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making, 32 (2):
225-6(2012)6942<m:linebreak></m:linebreak>JID: 8109073; 0 (Anticholesteremic Agents); ppublish;<m:linebreak></m:linebreak>Anàlisi de dades; Categorització.