Frank Manista reports from the General Assembly for OpenAire Advance and Legal Entity meeting held in Hungary in January. 34 members of the OpenAire Advance group were updated on the progress being made with the 10 work packages associated with
UKRI and Science Foundation Ireland along with 9 other European funding agencies have signed up to “Plan S”. The plan is seen as a transformative development towards achieving full open access to research outputs. The key principle of Plan S
Here’s some good news for a Friday! If you’re a member of the British Psychological Society, you will not be charged an article processing charge (APC) if you publish your work in any of these Wiley journals: British Journal
Information Services and RIO have organised a number of events on all campuses to participate in Open Access Week. This annual international celebration of ‘all things open access’ is taking place from 23rd – 29th October. There are Foyer Roadshows
So…we’re now into May and Beall’s Lists don’t seem to be making a come-back anytime soon. Are there any other websites that can help when trying to identify known, or at least, suspected predatory publishers? The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) embarked on a major
It’s taken a while to go through various publisher contracts but we’ve finally managed to extract information about an increased number of APCs available to researchers at Edinburgh Napier University. We’ve updated the offset APC page to reflect this so please
So, January 2017 has arrived and with it access to Elsevier journals has disappeared for over 60 institutions in Germany’s Deal Project group. The standoff between Elsevier and Project Deal is here. Who will blink first? This is now a very public disagreement watched with
On 3rd January Jeffrey Beall announced another regular update of his list of potential, possible or probable predatory publishers. Because the list of publishers is now so long, well over a thousand, this update gave statistics illustrating the rise in numbers of predatory open
Recently it’s been announced that all members of Project DEAL in Germany are expecting they will have no full text access to all Elsevier academic and scientific journals from 1st January 2017. They will still have access to most archived journal issues. So what’s happened and how has