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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 […]

Now is the time to work together toward open infrastructures for scholarly metadata

Author: Ginny Hendricks, Bianca Kramer, Catriona J. Maccallum, Paolo Manghi, Cameron Neylon, Silvio Peroni, David Shotton, Aaron Tay and Ludo Waltman. As part of Open Access Week 2021, Ginny Hendricks, Bianca Kramer, Catriona J. Maccallum, Paolo Manghi, Cameron Neylon, Silvio Peroni, David Shotton, Aaron Tay, and Ludo Waltman made the case for community action toward […]