Kategorie: Open Science

Esteve, A. (2024). Copyright and Open Access to Scientific Publishing. IIC – International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40319-024-01479-z The internet has broadened the communication of digitized journals and books among scholars and the perception that academic commercial publishers use copyright law to restrict the free circulation of scientific knowledge. Open access is

Zhang, E., & Johnson, C. (2024). Developing Open Access Resource Management Principles in a Consortial Environment: A University of California Model. Library Resources & Technical Services, 68(1). https://doi.org/10.5860/lrts.68n1.8216 In the summer of 2021, the University of California (UC) migrated to a new integrated library system, called the Systemwide Integrated Library System project (SILS), which for

Lake, S., Siler, E., McAdams, J., & Dickson, K. (2024). Behind the Curve but Moving Ahead: Advocating for an Open Access Policy as a Late-Stage Adopter. Library Resources & Technical Services, 68(1). https://doi.org/10.5860/lrts.68n1.8215 Open access policies are a well-established practice within the scholarly communications landscape; numerous research universities passed policies more than ten years ago.

Laddusaw, S. (2024). A Census of Institutional Repositories at Regional Public Universities. Library Resources & Technical Services, 68(1). https://doi.org/10.5860/lrts.68n1.8212 This study reports on the implementation of institutional repositories (IRs) at regional public universities (RPUs) in the United States and its territories. The author investigated repository platform choice, operation style, and content. More than half of

Rawlins, B. (2024). Are Transformative Agreements Worth It? An Analysis of Open Access Publication Data at the University of Kentucky. Library Resources & Technical Services, 68(1). https://doi.org/10.5860/lrts.68n1.8211 Open access publishing is continuing to grow as funders such as cOAlition S, National Institutes of Health, and the White House implement mandates and requirements that publicly funded

Dickson, C. (2024). Opening up: A global context for local open access initiatives in higher education. Library Resources & Technical Services, 68(1–2). https://doi.org/10.5860/lrts.68n1.8210 Open access policies and mandates can be a useful tool in persuading faculty at higher education institutions around the globe to produce and share open scholarship. But are such policies widely written,

Lerro, J., & Scott, R. E. (2024). Partners in progress: Publishers and librarians support open access publishing. Library Resources & Technical Services, 68(1–2). https://doi.org/10.5860/lrts.68n1.8209 (https://journals.ala.org/index.php/lrts/article/view/8209) There is a tendency to discuss open access (OA) publishing as though it is monolithic. Those of us engaged in the work of researching, preparing, and negotiating, however, know OA

Scott, R. E., & Fernandez, M. (2024). Editorial: Open access: one goal, many pathways. Library Resources & Technical Services, 68(1). https://doi.org/10.5860/lrts.68n1.8208 How better to celebrate the one-year anniversary of Library Resources & Technical Services (LRTS) becoming fully open access than an issue chock-full of insights, experiences, practices, and data on open access in library settings?

Goddard, M., & Brundy, C. (2024). Open Access Workflows for Academic Libraries. College & Research Libraries, 85(4), 503. https://doi.org/10.5860/crl.85.4.503 There is a growing acceptance of open access funding models among academic publishers and a growing adoption of open access publishing agreements among academic libraries. In this context, libraries are taking on new roles and new