Predatory Publishing Isn't The Problem, It's a Symptom of Information...
"[...] If we’re going to move forward and have a reasonable discussion about predation, I think we need to do two things. Librarians in the West, stop linking to Beall’s list as a way of dealing with...
View Article‘As open as possible, as closed as necessary’: The European Commission...
"The new Guidelines on FAIR Data Management in Horizon 2020, released by the European Commission in July 2016, include several key changes, both related to the Open Research Data Pilot and to Data...
View ArticleWill a radical open-access proposal catch on, and quantifying the most deadly...
"Plan S, an initiative that requires participating research funders to immediately publish research in an open-access journal or repository, was announced in September 2018 by Science Europe with 11...
View ArticleBold plan to take European open access initiative global in 2019 |...
"Robert-Jan Smits is pitching the Plan S vision to transform academic publishing to the world’s big science funding bodies. China’s surprise backing is making it harder for funders everywhere to...
View ArticleUCL’s innovative open access megajournal starts taking submissions – STM...
"UCL Press has launched its new open access megajournal ‘UCL Open’ and will start accepting academic research submissions from today (January 31, 2019). It is the first university megajournal providing...
View ArticleSPARC Europe's 2018 Annual Report is released - SPARC Europe
"SPARC Europe’s 2018 Annual Report, which highlights the work we have done and achieved to advance Open in Europe, has been published. The report touches on critical efforts to influence policy...
View ArticleRedistributing the Future: An Interview with MOVING MOOC Makers Sabine...
"Sabine and Franziska explore how they see MOVING MOOC, alongside other open science initiatives, as contributing to closing the research skills gap between what open science has on offer for the...
View ArticleA new Copyright Legislation for Europe. How will this impact Open Access? -...
"On March 26, the European Parliament adopted the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market, after several years of development and negotiations marked by intense lobbying from all sides....
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