Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
In Swedish Repository, OA Citations Trump Non-OA
A new study investigates whether there is a possible open access citation advantage across all fields.
Social Science Left Behind as China Embraces Open Access
China’s apparent reluctance to publish it social science and humanities scholarship openly is less about what it lets out, argues Michael Hockx, and more about what opening up might let in.
Why Do We Still Have Journals?
It’s time for a broader dialogue about how we connect the aims of the social science enterprise to our system of journals, argues the editor of Administrative Science Quarterly.
10 Takeaways on the Academy’s Digital Trust Issues
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.
The Open Access Megajournal: One Publisher’s Experience
Around the same time that its flagship open access journal, SAGE Open, celebrated its 500th paper, the executive publisher for open access […]
OA in Britain: We Have a Rule, Now Let’s Get Some Data
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.
Please Take A More Open View Of Openness
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.
Look Up ‘Open Access Help’ in the University Library
Social Science Space reported last week how–according to one survey drawn from the STEM fields–Canadian researchers like the principle of open access […]
