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Core : Three Access Levels To Underpin Open Access
Open access means reuse, not just reading
The Budapest Open Access Initiative clearly identifies, in its original definition of Open Access from 2001, that OA is not only about making research outputs freely available for download and reading. The aspect of reuse, which includes being able to index and pass OA content…
Open access will facilitate text mining and semantic enrichment
The huge amount of content openly available online offers a lot of opportunities for semantic enrichment realised through text mining, crowdsourcing, etc. Exploiting this content might completely redefine the way research is carried out. We may be standing at the brink of a…
Building confidence in open access
The second often discussed issue is that of building confidence in Open Access. Apart from a few successful OA journals, such as those maintained by PLoS or BioMed central, it is still (possibly wrongly) believed that OA journals today typically do not compare in terms of…
Demystifying Networks
Subscription journals are a vestigial organ
The system of pay-to-subscribe journals that spent so many centuries helping the scholarly landscape coordinate and collaborate is now obsolete; a vestigial organ in the body of science. These days, most universities offer free web access and web hosting. These two elements are…
Nature-branded Journal Goes Open Access-only: Can We Celebrate Already? | Open Knowledge Foundation Blog
Open access vs publication access
So we made it: the greatest bastions of traditional scientific publishing are clearly signaling support for open access. Can we pop the champagne already? This announcement obviously has positive aspects: for example, lives can be saved in poor countries where doctors may have…
Sick Of Impact Factors | Reciprocal Space
Impact factors hold back open access
These developments go hand in hand with the rise of open access (OA) publishing. Though primarily motivated by the research and societal benefits that will accrue from freeing the dissemination of the research literature, open access is also needed to optimise crowd-sifting of…
What Authors Want From Open Access Publishing | Stm Publishing
Wiley survey: what authors want from open access
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., today announced the results of an author survey on open access, with over ten thousand respondents from across Wiley’s journal portfolio. The research explored the factors that authors assess when deciding where to publish, and whether to publish…