Signed by over 50 organizations, the declaration calls for the loosening of intellectual property laws and policies in order to support improved access to content and the ability to text/data mine for new discoveries.
A list of the improvements planned for the DOAJ in 2015. Among them: Google Scholar compatibility, a fully functional subject browser, a simpler display with standardised information in search results for both journals and articles, and shareable, stable URLs.
A complete set of OA modules both for researchers and for library schools is now available online. It covers topics such as interoperability and retrieval, intellectual property rights and research evaluation metrics.
A testimony and a How to article on the editorial board meeting process: what is its role? What makes it succesful?
Thanks to this agreement, CERN results will appear as open access articles, with copyright retained by CERN and its authors, and reuse determined by Creative Commons CC-BY licenses. This allows CERN to progress further towards its stated target of 100% ‘gold’ open access for all of its physics results as of 2015.
An interview with Yuko Nagai of the Zoological Society of Japan about the society’s new open access journal and the future of open access in the country.
This manifesto calls for fair copyright for libraries and archives across Europe. It outlines needed reforms that will better support research, innovation and growth and will help create a digital single market. It focuses on the important role of libraries and archives.
This report, prepared for the European Commission, examines the current state of the art of OA strategies to peer-review publications (Part I), followed by a state-of-the-art analysis of OA strategies to scientific data (Part II). A third part of the study performs an assessment of the proportion and the number of OA papers published in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
Presentation of a unique combination of traditional peer reviewing with an integrative public review process which seems to be particularly relevant for disseminating the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL).
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) recently implemented a rigorous new vetting process that aims to raise the bar of quality for the journals it lists and filters out publications that are tarnishing the image of Open Access. These new Principles of Transparency and Best Practice comply with criteria used by OASPA (Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association).
