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Tag Archives: open access
Jan 29 2013
Open Library of Humanities: a community-grounded approach to academic publishing
7 CommentsThe Open Library of Humanities is a newly-launched project aiming to provide an ethically sound and sustainable open access model for humanities research. By coordinating the discussion and implementation of a community-grounded approach to academic publishing, OLH aims to create … Continue reading
Posted by: January 29, 2013
Tagged with: academic publishing, open access
Jan 17 2013
From Monograph to Multigraph: the Distributed Book
1 CommentHumanities and Social Science disciplines have traditionally relied heavily on the monograph as the prized scholarly output. But given the rapid changes in communication, as well as the mounting criticisms of its limited access and crippling expense, Tim McCormick asks whether the monograph might be reassembled. … Continue reading
Posted by: January 17, 2013
Tagged with: academic publishing, monograph, open access
Dec 12 2012
A new paradigm of scholarly communications is emerging: A report from the Future of Impact conference
7 CommentsPolicymakers and academics agree that the economic or public impact of research can’t be demonstrated through just citations and bibliometrics yet open access publishing, altmetrics and online methods must be further developed before we can rely on them to prove … Continue reading
Posted by: December 12, 2012
Tagged with: Academic communication, academic publishing, government, impact, open access, Research Excellence Framework
Dec 10 2012
Calling open access academic book publishers: How authors and publishers could make a modest profit
7 CommentsReputation, professional copyediting and promotion; academics gain a lot from working with a professional publisher but there’s no need to go it alone to go open access. Martin Weller writes that there are lots of ways to go open access … Continue reading
Posted by: December 10, 2012
Tagged with: academic publishing, impact, open access
Nov 19 2012
Use your author’s rights to make articles freely available
8 CommentsDebates on open access publishing may rumble on for some time to come. Until a perfect solution is found, Jørgen Carling writes that self-archiving, while not perfect, allows researchers to bring their work out from behind paywalls without jeopardizing academic integrity, … Continue reading
Posted by: November 19, 2012
Tagged with: academic publishing, impact, open access
Oct 10 2012
The Finch Report and RCUK Open Access policy: How can libraries respond?
5 CommentsOpen Access is now central to academic publishing, regardless of whether your team colours are green or gold. Ahead of Open Access Week, Natalia Madjarevic writes that she has witnessed increased media coverage as a result of green OA and … Continue reading
Posted by: October 10, 2012
Tagged with: academic publishing, impact, journals, libraries, open access
Sep 18 2012
Cash alone will not cure the research market
3 CommentsOpen access developments have necessarily elicited response from the entire scholarly community. Here, David Prosser of Research Libraries UK clarifies the valued role of libraries in informing the debate and raises specific concerns over how the newly pledged £10 million … Continue reading
Posted by: September 18, 2012
Tagged with: Academic communication, open access, Research funding
Sep 13 2012
Open Access needs terminology to distinguish between Gold OA funding models
1 CommentShedding further light on the wider open access debate, Martin Eve calls for a more precise terminology for the variety of Gold OA business models that currently exist to help correct the false assumption in many academics’ minds that Gold OA … Continue reading
Posted by: September 13, 2012
Tagged with: Academic communication, academic publishing, open access
Sep 12 2012
Key Questions for Open Access Policy in the UK
2 CommentsWhile recent policy developments have made huge strides for open access publishing, there is still great uncertainty over how the transition will play out. Stephen Curry distills the key questions that have emerged over translating open access policy into practice. … Continue reading
Posted by: September 12, 2012
Tagged with: academic publishing, open access, Research Councils UK
Sep 3 2012
Hybrid gold open access and the Chesire cat’s grin: How to repair the new open access policy of RCUK
1 CommentUnintended consequences of RCUK policy mean that if academics want open access publishing, publishers are happy to sell it to them, writes Stevan Harnad. He argues that researchers should not have to choose gold publishing when green open access is … Continue reading
Posted by: September 3, 2012
Tagged with: impact, journals, open access
