The 2025 policy continues 2021 compliance requirements while also imposing additional mandates and eliminating financial support for open access publishing.
Noted journalist and scholarly communication observer Richard Poynder explains why he has given up on the open access movement.
A.J. Boston offers recommendations for how funding agencies and research institutions can better lead the change toward open access.
The University of Michigan Press discusses its burgeoning open access monograph program.
Using POD (print on demand) as a means to support open access is not a viable business model.
A look at open access policies and developments in Canada, especially in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. Part 1 of a 2 part post.
Part 2 of this series looking at open access developments in Canada examines the changing processes and infrastructure needs for open science.
As the success of Subscribe to Open grows, what are the benefits and limitations of the model?
Matthew Salter takes a look at the new open access policy from the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST).
The debate over Open Access is not about science or economics but about core values and the language that embodies them.
Full of experimental biases and important omissions, what can be learned from the Study of Open Access Publishing (SOAP) survey of scientists?
A study by two respected economists suggests it may be time to admit that we made a mistake attributing a citation advantage to open access articles.
Once again, the term “open” requires further thought to probe the pros and cons. With open source, we may be once again doing things that make the big bigger and the small less relevant.
Ideally, we want science and scholarship to be not only available to the general public, but also comprehensible to them. But the challenges to doing so are real, and may vary both by discipline and by study type.
Emily Farrell from MIT Press discusses how collective open book models offer a chance to help many stakeholders across academic publishing share expertise to make processes easier, costs lower, and access to knowledge more collaborative.