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Open Access & Subscription Models

The scientific community is steadily moving toward open science. Even publishers are joining this “open” trend. China, being the country with the second largest research…
Richard Poynder is an independent journalist/blogger with a particular interest in open access and its perception and application across different sections of academia…
Richard Poynder is an independent journalist/blogger with a particular interest in open access and its perception and application across different sections of academia…
Abel Packer is one of founders of SciELO, or Scientific Electronic Library Online, and current Coordinator of the SciELO/FAPESP Program and Advisor of Information and…
Meet Stacy Konkiel, Outreach & Engagement Manager at Altmetric, a company that tracks online activity relating to scholarly literature. Previously, Stacy was the…
What makes for "good science"? Stacy Konkiel on open access, impact metrics, and more
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Science is becoming open and how! Gone are the days when researchers and institutions believed in keeping scientific data  behind strict and complex institutional…
Open Data in Science - Embracing Open Data for Scientific Progress
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Duncan MacRae, Senior Publisher of the journal Medicine published by Wolters Kluwer, played a major role in transitioning the journal from a subscription-based model to…
The University of California Press announced the launch of a new online, open-access journal Collabra, which will pay peer reviewers and editors for their…
New open access journal to pay reviewers and operate on "pay it forward" model
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Dr. Caroline Sutton is an active expert on open access publishing and Co-Founder of Co-Action Publishing. She is also Director at Infrastructure Services for Open Access…
What reservations do authors have towards using open access journals? How do open access journals manage peer review quality? In this second segment of her interview, Dr…