Scholarly Communications is an umbrella term that covers a wide range of subjects related to the publication and sharing of research findings. Posts will cover Open Access and GALA, Research Data, Metrics, Social media, Researcher Profiles and a myriad of related topics.
Golden opportunities? Emerging opportunities to expand access to Gold open access (OA) publishing
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 …
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 …
Open Access Week 2019 – Thursday – Reactions Around the World
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 …
Open 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 …
Open Access Week 2019 – Tuesday – The Adventure Begins!
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 …