Elsevier publishers have won their US court case against SciHub, the Library of Genesis (LibGen) and other similar sites for copyright infringement. The fine is a hefty $15…
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…
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…
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…
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…
October 24th – 30th 2016 is the 9th International Open Access week. OpenAire is offering a week of webinars on Open Science themes. These free,…
The results of a new research study show that by publishing work in an open access repository, citations were boosted by up to a fifth….
The European Union Competitiveness Council met on 27th May in Brussels. Following the meeting, it made a major announcement that by 2020 all scientific articles in Europe must…
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) has announced it’s going to remove around 3,300 journals from its directory today. DOAJ recently ran a re-application exercise…
If you’re thinking of doing some research over the summer, we’ve got some great resources to help you. Have you seen our Decision Tree? This…