The evolution of the OA policy landscape is showing no signs of rest. With the implementation of plan S just months away, many of the legacy academic and scholarly publishers are busy amending their agreements …
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Open Access Week 2019 – Friday – Where do we go from here?
At this point we have looked at the beginnings of open access, what it means now and the various reactions surrounding it, but now we will look at what we can expect for the immediate …
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Although open access has become more mainstream since its inception as demonstrated from our “Modern Open Access” post, it didn’t do so undetected. Inevitably both the public and publishers found out about open access and …
Continue readingOpen Access Week 2019 – Wednesday – Defining Modern Open Access
Moving on from our last post “The Adventure Begins”, we can see that at the time, open access was only just starting to be introduced. The methods of publishing were varied and there was no …
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As we have seen in our previous post “The Time Before Open Access”, Panizzi was able to achieve much of his ambition over the course of the 19th century. He was able to gather a …
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Open Access is the term used to describe a piece of research that has been published with no barriers to access and reuse, typically accompanied with a Creative Commons licence stating what the research can …
Continue readingPlan S – Accelerating the transition to full and immediate Open Access
What is Plan S, what is the point? Plan S is a set of principles designed by a group called cOAlition S that support and promote the benefits of Open Access and aim to facilitate …
Continue readingLove Data Week – Friday – Support for Data Management
Finally, Friday is all about you! Hopefully by now you have had time to fill in our short survey – it will take you less than 5 minutes, go and do it now, I’ll wait …
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Open data for government, citizens, researchers, and businesses can mean very different things. The people who created the Open Data Handbook describe it as “…data that can be freely used, re-used and redistributed by anyone – …
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Fake news or not fake news? The world of social media, and the ever increasing volumes of information available on the internet has led to the crisis of so called ‘Fake News’ – information and …
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