by crauter | May 14, 2012 | Publishing, REF, Research News
Some academics are still sometimes concerned that publishing in an Open Access journal may not have the same kudos as a subscription journal with a high impact factor. But now, following Willets’ speech to the publishers last week, there is speculation that the...
by crauter | May 3, 2012 | Publishing, Research News
David Willetts, in a speech to the Publishers’ Association yesterday, set out the Coalition’s commitment to free Open Access to publicly funded UK research outputs. He acknowledged the role of publishers in scholarly communication and said that he wanted...
by crauter | Apr 30, 2012 | Publishing
Melissa Terras (UCL) has been monitoring downloads of her articles from the institutional repository at UCL since she started writing about them on her blog and “tweeting the papers for download”. Did it have an impact? Read her blog.
by crauter | Apr 25, 2012 | Publishing
This is an ongoing debate which is getting a lot of attention right now. We have already seen articles about the “Academic Spring” in the Guardian and now the same newspaper has published an article in which it says that Harvard University ” wants...
by crauter | Oct 28, 2011 | Publishing, Research News
It is Open Access week. Researchers, librarians, publishers, and research funders are all talking about Open Access. By publishing your work in an OA repostitory or OA journal, you will make it more discoverable by other researchers. The more people read your work,...
by crauter | Apr 7, 2011 | Publishing
RIN have just published a new report (Heading for the open road: costs and benefits of transitions in scholarly communications) looking at ways to help develop free public access to academic research publications in the journal literature via open access publishing...
