Published: Sunday 5th November 2023
STM Association, in partnership with its member publishers, has released an inaugural STM OA Progress Report. This highlight-focused report is a companion to the newly launched STM OA Dashboard, a dynamic resource for exploring in-depth figures pertaining to OA uptake by research discipline, funder, region — and model. A key takeaway from this 2023 edition…
Published: Tuesday 31st January 2023
Open Access Books The publications of gold Open Access (OA) books recorded within the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) showed a CAGR of 12% between 2012 and 2022. OA uptake is less prevalent for scholarly books in comparison to journal articles. OA books tend to be supported by fewer funder policies and…
Published: Tuesday 31st January 2023
Open Access Uptake Based on Funded Research The top 25 global funders have been selected and ranked by number of articles, reviews and conference papers published in 2022 that were based on funded research. The top 25 global funders financed research that contributed to 30% of global articles, reviews and conference papers in…
Published: Tuesday 31st January 2023
Open Access Uptake by Countries/Regions The top 30 countries/regions have been selected and ranked according to the number of 2022 articles, reviews and conference papers attributable to the country or region in which the corresponding author is based. Authors based in China currently produce the greatest quantity of scholarly publications globally. In 2022,…
Published: Tuesday 31st January 2023
Open Access Uptake by Discipline The trend in Open Access (OA) uptake for Scientific, Technical and Medical (STM) disciplines shows little variation from the overall picture because STM represents the vast majority of scholarly content published. STM disciplines represent 89% and Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) 9% of global journal articles, reviews and…
Published: Tuesday 31st January 2023
Total View | Uptake of Open Access (OA) Between 2012 and 2022, the percentage of global articles, reviews and conference papers made available via gold has increased from 9% to 35%, an almost four-fold increase. In contrast, the percentage of journal articles, reviews and conference papers available to read via subscription-only fell from 73%…
Published: Thursday 8th December 2022
The Manager, Open Access Program Success will be responsible for ensuring the successful adoption of established Open Access transformative agreements. This role will own promotional activity including author-focused campaigns to drive manuscript submissions, periodic communication touchpoints with consortia leadership and librarians, key metrics reporting, and overall measures of program success. The person who fills this…
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Published: Wednesday 22nd January 2020
Scientific, technical and medical publishers face upheaval from open access and open data, but this transition represents opportunity in online services, particularly for competitors that can develop broader discovery tools and dynamic content capabilities to win users’ loyalty—this according to the most recent report from Simba Information, a leader in media and publishing intelligence.
Published: Monday 20th January 2020
CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas), the Spanish Research Council and IntechOpen are working together to encourage Open Access publishing in Spain.
Published: Thursday 16th January 2020
The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) announces the launch of its newest open access journal, JACS Au. The journal (pronounced “JACS Gold”) represents a bold new step toward open science for the global chemistry community.
Published: Tuesday 15th October 2019
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Published: Thursday 17th May 2018
A new report outlines how Springer Nature has been able to deliver rapid growth in gold open access (OA) articles in the UK. In the five years since the Finch report was produced in 2012, Springer Nature has published nearly 28,000 gold OA articles with a UK corresponding author, according to the report Gold open access in the UK: Springer Nature’s transition.
Published: Wednesday 16th May 2018
Large science publisher Elsevier does not meet the requirements of Swedish universities and research institutes.
Published: Friday 9th March 2018
As part of Peter Lang’s ongoing commitment to Open Access in academic publishing, the publisher today announced plans to transition eleven of its subscription-based scholarly journals to full open access.
Published: Thursday 8th March 2018
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (MPG) and IOP Publishing (IOP) have announced a new pilot agreement to help grow the society’s participation in open access publishing.
Published: Monday 5th February 2018
IntechOpen, the first native scientific publisher of Open Access books, stated its CEO/co-founder and scientist, Alex Lazinica, joined a presentation on Open Access books at Harvard and MIT, conducted by Mirena Bagur, MBA, a former course director at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology.
Published: Wednesday 17th January 2018
At the beginning of the year, De Gruyter reached the milestone of 1000 open access books on degruyter.com.
Published: Monday 18th December 2017
De Gruyter and the United Nations are cooperating on the publication of two open access books on mathematics.
Published: Tuesday 10th October 2017
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