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Ask the Community (and Chefs): How Can We Achieve Equitable Participation in Open Research?

In support of Open Access Week, we asked our community how we can achieve equitable participation in Open Research. Part 1 today, Part 2 tomorrow. Come share your views!

  • By Ann Michael, Alison Mudditt, Haseeb Irfanullah
  • Oct 21, 2020
  • 2 Comments

Guest Post — Creative Commons in Court

Are US federal courts enforcing Creative Commons licenses? Yes, but not as copyright holders may hope.

  • By Melody Herr
  • Oct 14, 2020
  • 2 Comments

Preprints and Author Services: An Interview with Rachel Burley and Eugenie Regan

Springer Nature recently invested further in Research Square Company to become majority owner of this preprint and author services platform. Today, an interview with Rachel Burley and Eugenie Regan about what to expect.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Oct 8, 2020
  • 12 Comments

Gaps in Academic Communication

Tao Tao looks at some surprising communication gaps in scholarly communication that hamper progress but also provide market opportunities.

  • By Tao Tao
  • Sep 16, 2020
  • 8 Comments

Articles Are the Fundamental Unit of Data Sharing

The FAIR principles answer the ‘How’ question for sharing research data, but we also need consensus on the ‘What’ question.

  • By Tim Vines
  • Sep 3, 2020
  • 22 Comments

Guest Post — What are Academic Book Publishers for? Part 1

What have academic book publishers been for? And what might they be for, in the future?

  • By Richard Fisher
  • Sep 1, 2020
  • 1 Comment

Guest Post — Assessing User Perceptions of an Open Access Subvention Fund

The results of a study on author perceptions of funding open access articles through a library subvention fund at Virginia Tech are analyzed.

  • By Gail McMillan, Leslie O’Brien, Edward F. Lener
  • Aug 31, 2020
  • 10 Comments

Sustainable Open Access – What’s Next? 

How can collective action models to support open access, like Subscribe to Open, be applied to academic publishing? An interview with Raym Crow.

  • By Ann Michael
  • Aug 27, 2020
  • 17 Comments

Guest Post – MDPI’s Remarkable Growth

Despite controversies, MDPI has flourished and are now the 5th largest scholarly publisher in the market. Christos Petrou offers an analysis of their enormous levels of growth.

  • By Christos Petrou
  • Aug 10, 2020
  • 34 Comments

Two Steps Forward, One Step Back — The Pandemic’s Impact on Open Access Progress

The COVID pandemic may leave us stuck between a growing consensus that open science is the superior way to drive progress and an inability to invest what may be needed to make it happen.

  • By David Crotty
  • Aug 4, 2020
  • 16 Comments

cOAlition S’s Rights Confiscation Strategy Continues

By calling its new policy a “Rights Retention Strategy,” cOAlition S is engaging in doublespeak. This strategy actually does exactly the opposite of what it claims.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Jul 20, 2020
  • 65 Comments

Guest Post — Is It Time to (Finally) Get Serious about Submission Charges?

Journal submission fees would reduce the continuously growing editorial and peer review burdens while allowing for better levels of rigor and oversight. Roy Kaufman makes a case for their adoption.

  • By Roy Kaufman
  • Jul 15, 2020
  • 38 Comments

The UK National PID Consortium: A Pathway to Increased Adoption

Persistent identifiers (PIDs) are an essential part of the open research infrastructure, but need widespread adoption to be effective. Learn about Jisc’s plans to increase adoption through a national PID consortium in this post by Alice Meadows.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Jun 29, 2020
  • 7 Comments

Guest Post — Streaming Live – Oral Arguments in FTC v. OMICS

The legal case against it will help determine whether OMICS is merely a “spirited player” or something worse.

  • By Stewart Manley
  • Jun 5, 2020
  • 19 Comments

Utility, Morality, Strategy, and Scholarly Communication

Should the library focus first on serving its local constituency, or on changing the scholarly communication ecosystem? No matter how we answer this question, the implications will be complex.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • May 21, 2020
  • 15 Comments
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