Open Access Archives
DPLA Receives $150,000 Grant From the Knight Foundation to Expand the Palace Marketplace and Palace Bookshelf
From a DPLA Announcement: DPLA’s ebook work is a key part of our mission to advance digital access to knowledge for all. Earlier this month, The Palace Project app and platform officially launched and are already in use by more than 125 libraries, with 300 more coming online in the coming weeks. Today, we are pleased to […]
Charles Watkinson Takes Office as AUPresses President
From an AUPresses Announcement: Charles Watkinson, director of the University of Michigan Press, has stepped into the presidency of the Association of University Presses. Watkinson, who also serves as associate university librarian for publishing at Michigan, succeeded 2021-2022 President Lisa Bayer, director of the University of Georgia Press, at the Association’s Annual Meeting in Washington, […]
New Data From Plan S: “Transformative Journals: Analysis of Year 1 (2021)”
From a Plan S Post: The Transformative Journal (TJ) model is one of the strategies cOAlition S endorses to help subscription publishers transition to full and immediate Open Access (OA). To be awarded TJ status, a title must publicly commit to transitioning to fully Open Access, and agree to: work to increase the share of […]
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Roundup (June 22, 2022)
Coherent Digital Reaches Major Agreement with the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) The Role of Open Access in Developing African Research and Publications (via Digital Science) W3C Joins Leading Standards Organizations and Companies to Coordinate Interoperability Standards for an Open and Inclusive Metaverse (via W3C)
Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and STM Publish Research Report on Paper Mills
From a Committee on Publication Ethics Blog Post: COPE and STM undertook a study with Maverick Publishing Services, using data from publishers, to understand the scale of the problem of paper mills. The study also involved interviewing stakeholders – research investigators, publishers, and Retraction Watch. All stakeholders believe that the issue of paper mills is […]
“New Partners, New Projects and a New Nonprofit: RoRI Embarks on Its Next Five Years of Research on Research”
From the Research on Research Institute (RoRI): Today marks the start of RoRI’s Phase 2. With our international consortium of partners, we’re excited to launch another five years of generating, synthesising and translating ideas and evidence into practical solutions to improve research. Launched in 2019 by the universities of Sheffield and Leiden, Wellcome Trust, and […]
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Journal Article (Preprint): “OpenCitations, An Open E-Infrastructure to Foster Maximum Reuse of Citation Data”
The article linked below (preprint) was recently submitted for publication in the International Journal of Digital Curation (IJDC). Title OpenCitations, An Open E-Infrastructure to Foster Maximum Reuse of Citation Data Authors Chiara Di Giambattista Communications Director and Community Development Manager of OpenCitations Ivan Heibi Responsible for the OpenCitations’ Technical Infrastructure Silvio Peroni Director of OpenCitations […]
Brown Library, Together with Emory University, Releases Report on Digital Scholarly Publishing: “Multimodal Digital Monographs: Content, Collaboration, Community”
From Brown University Library: In spring 2021, Brown University Library and Emory University’s Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry co-hosted a summit on multimodal digital monographs – born-digital publications that offer unique capabilities beyond conventional formats, from multimedia enhancements and interactive navigation to community engagement and global reach. The objective was to survey faculty-led experimentation with […]
Conference Paper: “Does Open Access Really Increase Impact? A Large-Scale Randomized Analysis” (Preprint)
The paper (preprint) linked below will be presented at the 26th International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators (STI2022). Title Does Open Access Really Increase Impact? A Large-Scale Randomized Analysis Authors Abdelghani Maddi (CEPN) Observatoire des Sciences et Techniques, Paris, France David Sapinho Observatoire des Sciences et Techniques, Paris, France Source via arXiv Paper to […]
Journal Article: “The Role of Data in an Emerging Research Community: Environmental Health Research as an Exemplar”
The following article was recently published by the International Journal of Data Curation (IJDC). Title The Role of Data in an Emerging Research Community: Environmental Health Research as an Exemplar Authors Danielle Pollock Simmons University An Yan University of Washington Michelle Parker University of Tennessee, Knoxville Suzie Allard University of Tennessee, Knoxville Source International Journal […]
