Is Open Access Publishing Cost Effective?
The concept of open access publishing is fairly new compared to how long researchers have been publishing in academic journals. At present, open access is now an accepted way of…
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Open Access
How Is Sci-Hub Affecting Academic Publishing?
In 2011, Alexandra Elbakyan, a graduate student in Kazakhstan, started a website known as Sci-Hub. Since its inception, the site has gained an increasing amount of attention. In…
Challenges in Growth of Open Access Publishing
Open access publishing is increasingly gaining popularity as funders, research institutions, scholars, and publishers are now seeking newer avenues to make science accessible to…
Open Access Week 2016: Open In Action
In 2008, SPARC and its partners in the student community established the International Open Access Week to increase the visibility of research and the impact it has on the…
Open Access in 2016: Developments and Its Impact
The Open Access Week, a global event promoting open access publishing is now in its ninth year—and all the efforts made during this time to support this initiative seems to have…
The Journal of Brief Ideas Is Making Your Ideas Citable
In this age of information overload, there are several ideas that can be considered innovative or can lead to a new scientific development. Given the extent of information that is…
ThinkLab: Startup Wanting to Fix Science
In 2014, fresh out of a successful trading algorithm startup, internet entrepreneur Jesse Spaulding began to think about the academic environment in which science is conducted from…
Is the Increase in Cost for Subscribing to Academic Journals Justified?
Academic journals are generally subscribed by individual subscribers (researchers, faculty, and industry professionals) as well as institutional subscribers (usually libraries).…
Types of Open Access Publications
The term Open Access encompasses a variety of research contributions intended for dissemination to the research community. These can be broadly classified into two types:
(1)…
Benefits of Open Access Publications
The open access movement offers a number of advantages to people cutting across all sections of society.
Access
Most journals and repositories do not impose access costs on the…
Does Open Access Conflict with Traditional Publishing?
The Open Access approach is on the whole complementary to traditional publishing. It utilizes both new technological developments and their wide proliferation to ease the…
How Is “CHORUS” Aiding Public Access to Federally Funded Research?
In February 2013, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) issued a policy memorandum directing:
“Federal agencies with more than $100M in R&D…