The next Elsevier boycott: News on DEAL, Springer Nature & Elsevier
As mentioned several times in this blog the German project DEAL aims to conclude nationwide licensing agreements for the entire portfolio of electronic journals from...
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A distant look at the commercialization of Open Access: The Jussieu Call for Open Science and Bibliodiversity
nnJoachim Schöpfel (Lille University, France) yesterday posted a message on the „Jussieu Call for Open Science and Bibliodiversity“ in the Global Open Access List (GOAL). ...
Published: „A landscape study on open access and monographs: Policies, funding and publishing in eight European countries“
As Niels Stern on the Goal Mailinglist the „biggest landscape study on the conditions and potentials for Open Access books yet has just been published“:...
Informationsveranstaltung zu Open Access an der Universität des Saarlandes
nnAm 26.10.2017 veranstaltet die Universität des Saarlandes eine halbtägige Informationsveranstaltung zu Open Access. Adressaten sind Wissenschaftler der saarländischen Hochschulen und auch die interessierte Öffentlichkeit. Die...
Elsevier & Open Access: „the primary reason to transition to gold open access should not be to save money“
Today Elsevier published its vision of Open Access, written by Gemma Hersh, and suggests a route that is neither green nor gold, but a mixture...
Tagungshinweis. Perspektiven der Wissenschaftsforschung: Reflexion – Praxis – Kontext
Am 16. und 17. Oktober 2017 veranstaltet das Leopoldina-Studienzentrums in Halle (Saale) die Tagung „Perspektiven der Wissenschaftsforschung: Reflexion – Praxis – Kontext“. Hier ein Auszug...
Open Access: Von Inklusion zu Exklusivität?
Anlässlich der Open-Access-Tage 2017 in Dresden referierte ich in der Session „Debatten“ dazu, inwiefern sich Open Access zu einem kommerziellen und exklusiven Modell entwickelt. Die...
What is the relationship between Springer Nature & Frontiers?
nnIn preparation for a presentation at the Open Access Days in Dresden, I collect information on the shares of commercial publishers in the APC-based Open...
Altmetric.com tracks discussions about books listed in Amazon
nnThe Altmetrics service Altmetric.com announced yesterday that it tracks now discussions about books listed on Amazon in social media and other not primarily scientific publications....
CERN’s new Open Access Policy requires scientists to publish instrumentation articles
nnThe Open Access Policy of the European Organization for Nuclear Research CERN has been published in October 2014 and was updated some weeks ago. It...