Yesterday saw fascinating news of a new open access journal that may shake up a business model or two. The scientific journal PeerJ has revealed its pricing plans that are based on author membership rather than a…
The European Union has thrown its weight behind a transition to open access for publicly-funded research outputs, with a proposed requirement for all peer-reviewed research funded under the EU Horizon 2020 programme to…
A White House ‘We the People‘ petition has been posted to gather international support for open access to scholarly articles arising from publicly-funded research. If the petition receives 25,000 signatures in 30 days,…
EPSRC has published a reminder to grant holders that published research arising from EPSRC funding must be made openly accessible by any available route. “The current EPSRC policy requires that all published research…
The Government Minister for universities and science, David Willets, made a significant speech yesterday in support of a transition to open access. Speaking to the Publishers Association, he made strong statements of…
A group of researchers at St Andrews recently published an assessment of their public engagement activities in the open access journal PLoS ONE. One of the authors, Mark Bowler stated: It’s great to have it in a high…
The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) has just been launched with over 750 academic books available under an Open Access licence. Books are available in a range of subjects with a particularly strong presence in…
The Guardian has published 2 articles using the term ‘academic spring’ to describe revolutionary changes in academic publishing, and Radio 4’s Today programme highlights a call to ‘share research papers’. ‘Wellcome…
Times Higher Education has reported that the Wellcome Trust may require institutions to take more responsibility for ensuring that publications associated with a Wellcome-funded grant are made open access. This may go…
The University of St Andrews Library has just launched a new service to support academic staff and students at the University wishing to run their own online journal. The journal hosting service uses OJS (Open Journal…