Sunday, January 07, 2024

Signing off

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After reporting on the open access movement for 20+ years I have reached the conclusion that the movement has failed.  As a result, I shall ...
Tuesday, May 10, 2022

The OA interviews: Richard Gallagher, President & Editor-in-Chief, Annual Reviews

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Annual Reviews ( AR ) recently announced that over the next 18 months it aims to make its entire portfolio of 51 academic journals freely a...
Wednesday, January 26, 2022

OA and fiscal sponsorship: Interview with SPARC’s Heather Joseph

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Scroll down to go direct to the interview with Heather Joseph The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition ( SPARC ) was founde...
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Wednesday, December 02, 2020

Open Access: “Information wants to be free”?

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(A print version of this eBook is available here ) Earlier this year I was invited to discuss with Georgia Institute of Technology libraria...
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Wednesday, November 04, 2020

Community Action Publishing: Broadening the Pool

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We are today seeing growing dissatisfaction with the pay-to-publish model for open access. As this requires authors (or their funders or ins...
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Thursday, July 30, 2020

Unbundling the Big Deal: An interview with SUNY’s Shannon Pritting

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The Big Deal has been a topic of heated discussion among librarians for some twenty or more years now. When first introduced, the attract...
Wednesday, February 19, 2020

PLOS CEO Alison Mudditt discusses new OA agreement with the University of California

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The Public Library of Science ( PLOS ) and the University of California ( UC ) have today announced a two-year agreement designed to make...