Plan S, the open access strategy from European funders in cOAlition S, gained momentum in 2019. However it pushed…
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Annual open access roundup Open Access 2019: A Year of Momentum on the Subscription Off-Ramp
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Annual open access roundup Open Access 2018: A Year of Funders and Universities Drawing Lines in the Sand
This is the sixth year I’ve rounded up the year in open access – and it was the most remarkable…
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Annual open access roundup Open Access 2017: A Year of Stand-Offs, Showdowns, & Funders’ Own Journals
This was the fifth year I tracked events in open access. Sifting through the mass of developments I collected along…
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Annual open access roundup Open Access 2016: A Year of Price Bargaining, Preprints, and a Pirate
A few years ago, I wrote that open access (OA) publications were gaining momentum. Based on a study of 2006 to 2010…
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Annual open access roundup Open Access 2015: A Year Access Negotiators Edged Closer to the Brink
It’s the year many negotiators got seriously tough on double dipping – charging for both the ability to read (via subscriptions) and for…
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Annual open access roundup Open Access 2014: A Year that Data Cracked Through Secrecy and Myth
Scientists created a rod for their backs when they allowed the journals in which their work is published to become…
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Annual open access roundup Open Access 2013: A Year of Gaining Momentum
Was this the year open access for science reached critical mass? One hypothesis suggests that a transformative group needs to reach one-third…