Major changes are underway in the US and around the globe in the methods by which scientific and medical research findings and data sets are circulated among researchers and disseminated to the public.
Findings - Open access journal publishers have to evolve up a mechanism that will share the burden of the authors interested in publishing in OA journals that levy article processing charges.A study by Tariq Ahmad Shah, (University of Kashmir), Sumeer Gul, (University of Kashmir) on open access publishing strategies.
My eye was caught by this tweet: https://twitter.com/gvwilson/status/330747014340018177 And I found myself wondering how often this scenario plays out around the world every day. (…) How many thousands of valuable conversations never happen because you can’t idly browse at $15 a pop?
Across Africa, academics and researchers face financial barriers that keep them from accessing the same knowledge their peers elsewhere in the world can afford.
A vice-chancellor has argued that “crass implementation” of “the wonderful principle of open access” has led to universities “subsidising publishers’ businesses and not getting value for money from journals”.
We, the undersigned researchers, technologists and citizens, demand that the Association for Computing Machinery make the complete contents of the Digital Library available to everybody.The ACM Digital Library is published by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
Mike Taylor, open access advocate and research associate at the department of earth sciences, University of Bristol says that preventing publication to make profit is wrong.
Nothing is wrong with publishers making a profit. (…)If you can make money by publishing research, that’s great. The issue is not publishers who make money. The issue is corporations that go by the title “publishers”, but which in fact make money by preventing publication.