Open Access

Tipster’s Note Offers View of Academic Publishing’s Achilles Heel
Communication
July 25, 2023

Tipster’s Note Offers View of Academic Publishing’s Achilles Heel

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Is Wikipedia A Good Academic Resource?
Research
April 17, 2023

Is Wikipedia A Good Academic Resource?

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Has Digital Open Access Made Book Chapters Comparable to Academic Journals?
Communication
March 14, 2023

Has Digital Open Access Made Book Chapters Comparable to Academic Journals?

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Does Open Access Result In More Policy Citations?
Open Access
November 15, 2022

Does Open Access Result In More Policy Citations?

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Webinar Examines Open Access and Author Rights

Webinar Examines Open Access and Author Rights

The next in SAGE Publishing’s How to Get Published webinar series honors International Open Access Week (October 24-30). The free webinar is […]

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The Foundational Myths of Open Access Still Shape How We View It

The Foundational Myths of Open Access Still Shape How We View It

Drawing on research into the early OA discourse of the 1990s, Corina MacDonald argues that many of the original optimistic arguments in favor of open access continue to shape open access to this day, often in ways that obscure the reality of digital networked labor.

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Free Essay Collection Examines State of Open Data

Free Essay Collection Examines State of Open Data

By offering a broad overview of the open data movement’s first 10 years, the editors of a recent collection of essays hope to provide an account that helps practitioners, policy-makers, community advocates, and anyone else in the open data movement, to progress the movement over the next 10 years…

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Why Open Access Will Boost Publisher Profits

Why Open Access Will Boost Publisher Profits

Shaun Khoo argues that whilst a shift to gold (pay to publish) open access would deliver wider access to research, the lack of price sensitivity amongst academics presents a risk that they will be locked into a new escalating pay to publish system that could potentially be more costly to researchers than the previous subscription model.

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Sci-Hub: The Librarian’s Response

Sci-Hub: The Librarian’s Response

In this post by Ruth Harrison, Yvonne Nobis & Charles Oppenheim they tell about the challenges that Sci-Hub presents to librarians who are advocating for open access to scholarly content. We published this post in recognition of lasts weeks Open Access Week around the country. The article highlights issues associated with open access and scholarly communications and the views reflect that of the authors.

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Transforming Research into an Illustrated Abstract

Transforming Research into an Illustrated Abstract

Publishing research that can be accessed as widely as possible is clearly crucial, but ensuring that research is accessible to similarly large groups of people is an altogether different challenge. Lucy Lambe explains how the LSE Library has worked with a comics creator and illustrator to create illustrated abstracts of articles that were funded to publish open access last year.

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Introducing SocArXiv — an Open Archive for Social Science

Introducing SocArXiv — an Open Archive for Social Science

Sociologist Philip Cohen of the University of Maryland introduces SocArxiv, a fast, free, open paper server to encourage wider open scholarship in the social sciences.

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Connecting with the Community: Stephen Pinfield on Institutional Open Access Funds

Connecting with the Community: Stephen Pinfield on Institutional Open Access Funds

[We’re pleased to feature an interview, originally posted on the SAGE Connection blog, with Bailey Baumann and Stephen Pinfield. Stephen Pinfield recently published […]

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