Tag Archives: Open-access

Ars Technica has an interesting article about the on-going open access wars. University libraries, like everyone else, have to operate on a budget and fee increases from journal publishers is putting the squeeze on those budgets. Librarians are starting to … Continue reading →

Will research that the U.S. Federal Government pays for have to be open access? Betteridge’s Law of Headlines says the answer must be “no” but there’s a rumor—just a rumor—that the White House is about to extend the Obama Administration’s … Continue reading →

I’ve written several times about the renegade pirate sites that curate scientific papers and make them available for free (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6). Their actions are clearly illegal and some say immoral but they’re a useful corrective to … Continue reading →

The last time I wrote about the open access movement, I reported that the University of California had refused to renew its Elsevier subscriptions and that the next logical step was for individual researchers to refuse to publish in Elsevier … Continue reading →

I’ve written many times (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) about the open access wars between universities and academic publishers. In a move that almost certainly signals the beginning of the end game, the University of California has refused to renew … Continue reading →

I’ve written before (1, 2, 3, 4) about Open Access and the struggles associated with it. I used to think the debate was nuanced but the behavior of the publishers have convinced me that they’re getting what they deserve. I … Continue reading →

The University of California has struck a blow for the Open Access movement by terminating its subscriptions to all Elsevier journals. UC and Elsevier have been in negotiation for some time trying to find a way to make UC research … Continue reading →

Via Karl Voit I found a link to an interesting post from Tim Bray in which he discusses a variety of technical issues. I especially liked his take on Open Offices in which he says All the high-tech companies I’ve … Continue reading →

The Open Access movement got some good news when China announced they would back Plan S. Plan S is the European-led program to make all publicly funded research freely available upon publication in a journal. One would hardly think this … Continue reading →

In a win for open access in publishing two major funders will no longer cover publishing in hybrid journals. The two funders, The Wellcome Trust and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced that they will not provide research funding … Continue reading →