Moore (2021). Open Access, Plan S and ‘Radically Liberatory’ Forms of Academic Freedom

Moore, S.A. (2021). Open Access, Plan S and ‘Radically Liberatory’ Forms of Academic Freedom. Development and Change. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12640 This opinion piece interrogates the position that open access policies infringe academic freedom. Through an analysis of the objections to open access … Weiterlesen →

Sagemüller, Meißner and Mußhoff (2021). Where Can the Crow Make Friends? Sci‐Hub’s Activities in the Library of Development Studies and its Implications for the Field

Sagemüller, F., Meißner, L. and Mußhoff, O. (2021). Where Can the Crow Make Friends? Sci‐Hub’s Activities in the Library of Development Studies and its Implications for the Field. Development and Change. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12638 This study examines data on the worldwide use … Weiterlesen →

Kamerlin, Allen, de Bruin, Derat and Urdal (2021). Journal Open Access and Plan S: Solving Problems or Shifting Burdens?

Kamerlin, S.C.L., Allen, D.J., de Bruin, B., Derat, E. and Urdal, H. (2021). Journal Open Access and Plan S: Solving Problems or Shifting Burdens?. Development and Change. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12635 This academic thought piece provides an overview of the history of, and … Weiterlesen →

Hayashi (2021). How Could COVID-19 Change Scholarly Communication to a New Normal in the Open Science Paradigm?

Kazuhiro Hayashi (2021). How Could COVID-19 Change Scholarly Communication to a New Normal in the Open Science Paradigm? Patterns 2(1), 100191. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2020.100191 Since the emergence of the world wide web, scholarly journals have been transformed practically into “online journals” and … Weiterlesen →

Brembs, Förstner, Goedicke, Konrad, Wannemacher & Kett (2021). Plan I – Towards a sustainable research information infrastructure

Björn Brembs, Konrad Förstner, Michael Goedicke, Uwe Konrad, Klaus Wannemacher & Jürgen Kett (2021). Plan I – Towards a sustainable research information infrastructure. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4454640 Public institutions in many countries are required by law („spending rules“) to initiate a bidding/tender … Weiterlesen →

Barake, S. R., & Welsby, A. (2021). Collaboration across campus: open monograph insights from a library and ‘old’ university press partnership

Barake, S. R., & Welsby, A. (2021). Collaboration across campus: open monograph insights from a library and ‘old’ university press partnership. Insights, 34(1), 2. http://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.533 Liverpool University Press and the University of Liverpool Library collaborated to publish two open access … Weiterlesen →

Pühringer, Rath and Griesebner (2020). The political economy of academic publishing: On the commodification of a public good

Stephan Pühringer, Johanna Rath and Teresa Griesebner (2020). The political economy of academic publishing: On the commodification of a public good (ICAE Working Paper Series – No. 121). https://www.jku.at/fileadmin/gruppen/108/ICAE_Working_Papers/wp121.pdf This paper provides an institutional and empirical analysis of the highly … Weiterlesen →

Joseph, H. (2021): Building momentum to realign incentives to support Open Science

Joseph, H. (2021): Building momentum to realign incentives to support Open Science. Data Intelligence 3(1). https://doi.org/10.1162/dint_a_00079 The COVID-19 pandemic highlights the urgent need to strengthen global scientific collaboration, and to ensure the fundamental right to universal access to scientific progress … Weiterlesen →