As this year’s Open Access Week kicks off, we at SPARC continue to grapple with the question: “Open for Whom?” -- the theme for this year’s international week of awareness. The advisory committee responsible for selecting the theme wanted to emphasize that it’s not enough to simply focus on whether we reach a fully open access system of sharing knowledge—we also have to consider how we get there. The questions of who is…

The future of open access publishing is in our hands

Christopher May, Lancaster University, UK

I have been thinking about open access publication ever since I became interested in intellectual property rights twenty five years ago. There are all sorts of issues with the current standard system of academic publishing, not least of all that an oligopoly of journal publishers have maintained a system (albeit…

Open Access Week gives us a chance to share how we at Brain Products support Open Science every day. In this blog, we want to share some of the initiatives we have in place and ideas about how companies like us can promote Open Access to benefit all.

Brain Products…

Are you a Green and Gold imposter? Do you nod you head and smile when anyone mentions Open Access – hoping they will not ask you any questions. You are not alone – unless you are working with the terminology, the funders, the policies everyday – it feels too confusing and unnecessary to listen properly now when you can do it tomorrow.

 Advocacy is our bread and butter here in the Research Engagement team at the University of Southampton and we want to raise the awareness level in Open…

The 1st SPARC Japan Seminar 2019 entitled "Open Science in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Putting it into Practice" will be held on 24 October, hosted by SPARC Japan, in keeping with this year’s Open Access Week theme of “Open for Whom? Equity in Open Knowledge”. We will share information to try to develop broad and stable Open Science in the humanities and social sciences…

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Notre mission s'inscrit dans le cadre de la promotion des bonnes pratiques et les principes de transparence dans l'édition des revues en libre accès. En qualité d'ambassadeur de DOAJ pour l'Afrique du Nord et Moyen Orient, nous accompagnons les éditeurs pour indexer leurs journaux dans le répertoire des revues en accès libre ( …

Plan S aspira a assegurar que l'accés obert a les publicacions científiques sigui una realitat. Tanmateix, quines implicacions té per al futur de la investigació científica? L'estratègia plantejada per Plan S, així com el seu impacte als centres d’investigació, les academies i els investigadors joves, serà el tema d’una conferència que es celebrarà el 6 de Novembre a Leuven (Bèlgica).…

10年前、ScienceDirectよりIEL Onlineの方が高額Data Baseであった。

しかし、生命科学を学ぶ大学院生が80人もいない大学でScienceDirectに7000万円のコストは必要なのだろうか。

工学分野を学ぶ学生500名しかいない大学でIELの1700万円は適切なのだろうか？…

Plan S aspira a asegurar que el pleno acceso abierto a las publicaciones científicas sea una realidad. Sin embargo, ¿qué implicaciones tiene en el futuro de la investigación científica? La estrategia tras Plan S y su impacto en los centros de investigación, las academias y los investigadores jóvenes, será el tema central de una conferencia que se celebrará el 6 de Noviembre de 2019 en Leuven…

The bold ambition behind Plan S is to ensure that full open access to published research finally becomes a reality. Yet, what does it mean for the future of research? The strategy behind Plan S and its impact on research institutions, academies and learned societies, early- and mid-career researchers will be addressed at a dedicated conference on 6 November 2019 in Leuven (Belgium).…

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All are invited to the following ASSAf events, planned for Open Access Week 2019: 

22 October 2019, 10:00-11:00 SAST

Webinar: An SA Journal’s Move to Open Access/ Dr Lara Skelly, Research Manager and Head: PhD Business Management and Administration, University of Stellenbosch Business School

Register:…