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Ask The Chefs: Where Does Open Access Go From Here?

Publishers, librarians, researchers, and funders all have a stake in Open Access. What happens next? See what the Chefs have to say.

  • By Ann Michael
  • Oct 20, 2017
  • 8 Comments

Open Access 2.0: Access to Scholarly Publications Moves to a New Phase

A reprint of an essay from 2008, which attempts to describe the evolution of open access publishing, Written before the astounding success of PLoS ONE, it outlines the link between open access publishing and the still-persistent traditional model.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Feb 20, 2013
  • 10 Comments

Revisiting: A 2008 Look at Open Access

A look back at Joe Esposito’s 2008 essay on Open Access — what has come to pass and what has changed since then?

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Oct 29, 2021
  • 1 Comment

Seeking Sustainability: Publishing Models for an Open Access Age

Open access, scholarly publishing, business models, and sustainability. The past is prologue. The present is complex. @lisalibrarian provides SSP a primer.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Apr 7, 2020
  • 12 Comments

Guest Post — A Unified, Common Ground Approach to Open

Global initiatives in open are decentralized and disconnected, lacking researcher input and buy-in. An “opens solutions” approach can both embrace and leverage that diversity, ensuring that it all contributes to the greater whole.

  • By Glenn Hampson, Mel DeSart, Rob Johnson
  • Apr 13, 2021
  • 2 Comments

Guest Post – Perspectives on a “Unified Approach” to the Future of Open Access  

There is value in exploring the concept of different perspectives on open access in order to begin to develop a “unified approach to open”.

  • By Melissa H. Cantrell, Michael R. Donaldson
  • Jan 11, 2022
  • 9 Comments

A Failure to Communicate: Indicators of Open Access in the User Interface

Though open access indicators within a given publishing platform are relatively consistent, significant inconsistency across platforms likely creates user confusion.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Kalyn Nowlan
  • Nov 14, 2022
  • 15 Comments

Global Trends in Open Access: Themes from Africa, Asia and Latin America

A recent Scholarly Kitchen webinar on global open access shared perspectives from Latin America, Asia and Africa. Arianna Becerril García, Thomas Hervé Mboa Nkoudou, Vrushali Dandawate and Siân Harris share key themes

  • By Siân Harris, Arianna Becerril García, Thomas Hervé Mboa Nkoudou, Vrushali Dandawate
  • May 13, 2021
  • 1 Comment

Guest Post — Advancing Accessibility in Scholarly Publishing: Recommendations for Digital Accessibility Best Practices

Part three of a three-part series aims to discuss the topic of advancing accessibility within scholarly communication with the focus of digital accessibility.

  • By Sylvia Izzo Hunter, Nicola Poser, Kasia Repeta, Damita Snow
  • Mar 3, 2023
  • 5 Comments

Guest Post — Building an Easier Path Toward Open Access Book Publishing:  Support for Authors

Christina Emery presents an updated overview of the open access books landscape and examines the challenges of open access book publishing according to feedback from authors and researchers, plus what support is available to them.

  • By Christina Emery
  • Mar 11, 2021
  • 3 Comments

Can Geowalling Save Open Access?

Geowalling open content is proposed yet again. As a thought experiment, @lisalibrarian explores what Plan S principles would be compromised by this tactic.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Nov 14, 2019
  • 29 Comments

Celebrating 30,000 Open Access Articles … PARs, RAPs, and Exploring Implications

Does the Wiley/DEAL Publish-and-Read agreement open new pathways to open access? And what’s a PAR anyway?

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Jan 22, 2019
  • 28 Comments

Researcher to Reader (R2R) Debate: Is Sci-Hub Good or Bad for Scholarly Communication?

Transcript of a debate held at the 2019 Researcher to Reader Conference, on the resolution “Sci-Hub Does More Good Than Harm to Scholarly Communication.”

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Apr 16, 2019
  • 28 Comments

Study Suggests Publisher Public Access Outpacing Open Access; Gold OA Decreases Citation Performance

Though flawed, a recent study presents several surprising data points about the voluntary efforts publishers are making to broaden access, and the value of Gold OA in driving citations.

  • By David Crotty
  • Oct 4, 2017
  • 10 Comments

Guest Post: Open Access and the Direction Moving Forward

A.J. Boston offers recommendations for how funding agencies and research institutions can better lead the change toward open access.

  • By A.J. Boston
  • Apr 26, 2022
  • 7 Comments
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