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Plan S, an initiative by European funders to increase open access to journal articles, has led to progress but not in the way originally intended. Although it aimed to dismantle paywalls and boost fully open-access publishing, most of the growth has occurred in hybrid journals, which mix open-access and paywalled articles.

I am very happy to be giving a keynote on October 22nd at the LundOnline conference, which, despite its name, will take place in person in Sweden. The conference’s theme is Turning policy into practice – opportunities and consequences for stakeholders in scholarly communication , and accordingly, my presentation will focus on the role of policies in Open Access.

In September, a journalistic article on Diamond Open Access (by Wolfgang Benedikt Schmal and myself) and a preprint on Transformative Open Access Agreements (by Laura Rothfritz, Wolfgang Benedikt Schmal, and myself) were published. On Diamond Open Access &

Heute haben wir von Open Access Brandenburg gleich drei mit dem Publikationsfonds für Open-Access-Monografien des Landes Brandenburg geförderte Neuerscheinungen zu vermelden. Mit ihrem Buch „Radlogistik.

Audio Overviews in Google NotebookLM is making waves online. When I first tried it, it was a "wow" moment for me. The last time I felt that way was trying Perplexity.ai in late 2022 and realizing that search engines could now return answers (with citations) instead of just potentially relevant links and I realized this would be a huge paradigm shift.

tl;dr: I handed in my resignation back in early July and will be leaving my job - and the UK - at the end of October to go on a sabbatical. This could have been a long and rambling post about all the problems with academia and/or the tech industry, but at the end of the day Lucidity’s Quitting My Job For The Way Of Pain already made most of the aspects in a more fun way than I could hope to deliver them, so I’ll try to

von Sharon Hundehege (Studentische Mitarbeiterin in der Vernetzungs- und Kompetenzstelle Open Access Brandenburg)  Das Forschungsprojekt „Workflow-Management-Systeme für Open-Access-Hochschulverlage (OA-WFMS)“ ist ein gemeinsames Vorhaben der Hochschule für Technik, Wirtschaft und Kultur (HTWK) Leipzig und der Universitätsbibliothek Potsdam.

von Sharon Hundehege (Studentische Mitarbeiterin in der Vernetzungs- und Kompetenzstelle Open Access Brandenburg)  Demokratie und offene Archive Das Jahr 2024 steht für 75 Jahre Grundgesetz und wird entsprechend als Jahr der Demokratie begangen. Ein wichtiger Teil dieser Demokratie ist es, dass staatliches Handeln transparent dokumentiert wird und dadurch auch Jahre später noch nachvollzogen werden kann.

Source Ex Libris surprised us by suddenly releasing Primo Research Assistant to production on September 9, 2024  (when the earlier timeline was 4Q 2024 with some believing it might even be delayed). Despite the fact that there are so many RAG (retrieval augmented generation) academic search systems today that generate answers from search, this is still quite a significant event to be worth covering in my blog. Why?