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Blogs selected for Week February 18, 2019 to February 24, 2019

1. Ahead of the Game – How impact is an additional hurdle for scholars from widening countries to receiving EU funding. The next round of the EU’s research and innovation funding program, Horizon Europe, will include a requirement to develop a mission statement outlining how the research will achieve societal impact. In their post in […]

Blogs selected for Week February 11, 2019 to February 17, 2019

1. A Brief History of History Responding to Open Access History as a discipline has a history of responding to Open Access Initiatives. Karin Wulf, in her post in the Scholarly Kitchen Blog, discusses what they can learn from this history of history that could push faster, farther toward collaboratively designed and implemented OA. The […]

Blogs selected for Week February 4, 2019 to February 10, 2019

1. The Evolving Landscape of Research Access and its Impact on the Global South Information access has an important role to play in tackling inequity in the global research and knowledge systems. But subscriptions to Northern journals are only part of the story for improving research equity in low- and middle-income-countries. Siân Harris, in her […]

Blogs selected for Week January 28, 2019 to February 3, 2019

1. Few open-access journals meet requirements of Plan S, study says Only a small proportion of open-access scientific journals fully meet the draft requirements of Plan S, the initiative primarily by European funders to make all papers developed with their support, free to read, a study has found. Compliance with the rules could cost the […]

Blogs selected for Week January 21, 2019 to January 27, 2019

1. More Scholarly Communications Consolidation as Institutional Repository Provider DuraSpace Merges into Lyrasis Green open access, and in particular the role of institutional repositories in serving up preprints and other journal article artifacts, is going through some substantial transitions. An important development for institutional repositories and related library systems, this is also yet another example […]

Blogs selected for Week January 14, 2019 to January 20, 2019

1. Change ahead: How do smaller publishers perceive open access? The Open Access Office at Graz University Library undertook a comprehensive survey across the German-speaking countries to specifically address publisher attitudes and practices regarding Open Access. In their post in the LSE Impact of Social Sciences Blog, Christian Kaier and Karin Lackner explore the attitudes […]

Blogs selected for Week January 7, 2019 to January 13, 2019

1. The Double-bind Theory of Scholarly Publishing What the public wants is better science, not open science. Plan S has put those two forces in conflict, and it is driving everybody crazy. The double bind comes into play in scholarly publishing when some groups want publishers to do more and more and others insist that […]

Blogs selected for Week December 31, 2018 to January 6, 2019

1. Peer-reviewed physics for Wikipedia: PLOS ONE Topic Pages Science Wikipedia pages are not just for non-experts. Physicists – researchers, professors, and students – use Wikipedia daily. Despite Wikipedia’s importance as a resource for both practicing physicists and the wider community, it is rare for professional physicists to contribute, in part because there are few, […]