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Working collaboratively to support an open research future: Lessons learned

Author: Eugenie Regan COVID-19 may be the most visible example of scientific data to date that has been shared, used, re-used and discovered in the most collaborative and collective way across all research stakeholders, across all nations and continents. It has had an essential role to play in increasing the credibility of that research – […]

Multilingualism is integral to accessibility and should be part of European research assessment reform

Author: Janne Pölönen, Emanuel Kulczycki, Henriikka Mustajok and Vidar Røeggen Developing research systems that promote diverse, multilingual and relevant research for different audiences is a key and often overlooked element in making research accessible. However, biases in traditional research assessment often place researchers looking to produce multilingual research outputs at a disadvantage. Reflecting on the […]

What Can We Learn from One Million Open Access Articles?

Author: STEVEN INCHCOOMBE Springer Nature has published 1,000,000 open access articles. These articles cover all academic disciplines and range from those which provide groundbreaking research to that which adds quietly but importantly to the academic literature and supports the development of further research. And as research shows that articles published OA have increased impact, usage, […]

Scholarly Book Publishing Workflows and Implications for RIM Systems

Author: REBECCA BRYANT, CHARLES WATKINSON and REBECCA WELZENBACH Research Information Management (RIM) is an area of considerable growth for North American institutions today. Research universities like the University of California, the University of Michigan, and Virginia Tech use RIM systems in support of a variety of use cases. RIM systems aggregate, curate, and utilize metadata […]

Making scholarly communication both human and machine-interpretable

Author: Cristina-Iulia Bucur We currently disseminate, share, and evaluate scientific findings following paradigms of publishing where the only difference from the methods of more than 300 years ago is the medium in which we publish – we have moved from printed articles to digital format, but still use almost the same natural language narrative with […]

Keeping a research journal that works for you

Author: Nicole Brown Think of a research journal and you may imagine a well-thumbed notebook replete with insightful entries, answers to research questions and a chronicle of the key moments that led to this point. However, as Nicole Brown (author of Making the Most of Your Research Journal) outlines, misconceptions about the perfect research journal […]

Guest Post — Five Things You Need to Know about UKRI’s New Open Access Policy

Author: VICTORIA FICARRA and ROB JOHNSON The long-awaited Open Access (OA) policy from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), the UK’s leading research funder, is here. The policy aims to increase opportunities for access, sharing, and reuse of research outputs. It sits in the wider context of an increased investment from the UK government in R&D […]

Is Scientific Communication Fit for Purpose?

Author: ROGER C. SCHONFELD In earlier eras, the distinction between scientific communication with peers and public communication of science was greater. Over the past two decades, one of the underlying rationales of the open access movement has been that the general public should have ready and free access to the scientific record. As we begin […]

Why I’m optimistic about the Open Access movement

Author: Ashley Farley The call for Open Access publishing—scholarly research that is freely available, accessible, and reusable—has been around for more than 30 years. However, the last year-and-a-half provided an unprecedented case study on the power of Open Access. There has been so much momentum in the Open Access movement over the last year-and-a-half that […]

Open access: how do we make the exclusive inclusive?

Author: D. Munday With the open science movement showing no signs of slowing down, it’s more imperative than ever that we, as a fully open access publisher, are conscious of the need to push for more openness in research. The article processing charge (APC) publishing model, as uncomfortable as it may be to admit, naturally […]