An interview with COAR Executive director Kathleen Shearer by Richard Poynder specialist in the evolution of the Open Access movement. The interview evolves around the current state of the repository infrastructure, particularly with regard to interoperability and discoverability.
The publishing industry is almost unanimous to say that print editions will disappear sooner or later. Ken Anderson analyses the pros and cons of this evolution.
A recently proposed model on open-access publishing has drawn praise for rethinking the roles institutions, libraries and professional organizations play in promoting scholarly communication.
How can publishers speed up the reviewing process? In a recent paper, Raj Chetty, Harvard economist and editor of the Journal of Public Economics, decided to experiment on his own journal, testing whether shortened deadlines and cash incentives increased the speed and quality of peer reviews.
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced it will become a member of the open access repository Europe PubMed Central (Europe PMC). Europe PMC will provide the platform for researchers to freely access and reuse WHO-authored and WHO-funded research.
Some of the main types of model to support the costs of publishing OA books are outlined, and examples of these models across the world are provided.
Phil Davis, a publishing consultant, describes how the journal Impact Factor is calculated and highlights its major weaknesses. He mostly focuses on how Thomson Reuters’ citation services could be reconfigured to more adequately satisfy the needs of publishers and editors.
Brazil and Spain have developed successful open access models. A recent study analyses the delivery models adopted, and their success factors.
The second edition of Wiley’s guidelines on publishing ethics is now available online, in Open Access. Its aim is to support all those involved in scholarly publishing with a summary of best practice guidance from leading organizations around the world.
In March 2014, the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) organized a meeting to discuss the alignment of open access repository networks across regions. The full meeting report is now available.
