A just-released project asking if the digital tsunami is leaving trust in scholarly communication all wet found that the academy still runs to traditional means to determine reliability.

Around the same time that its flagship open access journal, SAGE Open, celebrated its 500th paper, the executive publisher for […]

The landscape for open access in Britain’s social science and humanities fields is very different and very similar to the better studied STEM fields, a new report from the British Academy finds.

Ben Johnson posits that frequently asked questions concerning open access implementation for particular disciplines arise from an incomplete conception of the nature of openness that neglects one vital component: connection.

Social Science Space reported last week how–according to one survey drawn from the STEM fields–Canadian researchers like the principle of […]

You like the idea of “megajournals”–online-only, open access journals that cover many subjects and publish content based only on whether […]

Although four out of five Canadian researchers surveyed say they like the idea of open access, the cost of serving that principle turns many of them off.

With the final consultation period now over, the open access policy for Britain’s next Research Excellence Framework has been released. Alma Swan looks at the rollout–which requires the deposit of articles into repositories–and finds this is pragmatic but good policymaking that should help shift the culture in British universities towards open access.

The American Educational Research Association, the nation’s largest professional organization devoted to the scientific study of education, has named three […]

A new project is trying to figure out what the future of the monograph will be in the age of open access.

Open access to research papers doesn’t mean much to researchers, argues Michael White, but the government hopes it’ll serve a greater public good.

The below post was originally published on The Conversation, and is kindly reposted here with their permission. Author – Ernesto […]