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.