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 […]
Around the same time that its flagship open access journal, SAGE Open, celebrated its 500th paper, the executive publisher for open access […]
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 open access […]
You like the idea of “megajournals”–online-only, open access journals that cover many subjects and publish content based only on whether it is […]
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 professors from […]