When the original BOAI declaration on open access was published, one of its stated aims was to ‘save money and expand the scope of dissemination at the same time’ through open access publishing.

So this is essentially what happened instead of us sitting down and thinking how we could spend our money in the most technologically savvy way to the benefit of science, scholars and society. A generation later, roughly US$300 billion poorer and none the wiser, it seems.

OpenCitations is an infrastructure organization for open scholarship dedicated to the publication of open bibliographic and citation data.

The memorable date 20/02/2020 saw the publication by MIT Press of the first issue of Volume One of a new journal, Quantitative Science Studies (QSS), the official open access journal of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI). QSS’s Editor in Chief is Ludo Waltman (CWTS, University of Leiden, Netherlands), Vincent Larivière (Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada) and Staša Milojević

“It all started with a pang of jealousy,” says Asura Enkhbayar when asked what inspired him to start Open Science […]

Keynote presented by Juan Pablo Alperin at the first United Nations Open Science Conference on November 19, 2019, organized by the UN Dag Hammarskjöld Library and the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition ( SPARC ). Good morning.

Aktuell machen Gerüchte über die Planung einer Executive Order der US-Administration zum Thema Open Access die Runde: Wie das Blog The Scholarly Kitchen berichtet, soll eine Verordnung in Arbeit sein, die die US-Behörden verpflichten würde, eine “zero embargo” Open-Access-Policy umzusetzen.

Der wirklich grosse Big Bang ist in der Schweiz ausgeblieben. Dennoch kündigen nun alle Schweizer Hochschulen ihren Big Deal mit Springer Nature (inkl. Nature Journals). Wie Swissuniversities bekannt gibt, konnte Springer Nature nun nach über 1.5 Jahren Verhandlung kein passendes Angebot liefern.

If you’re at all interested in open access publishing, you probably know that it has a long and complicated history. There are disagreements and differences over strategies, tactics, politics, definitions, motivations, disciplinary approaches, business models and routes to OA. Many words have been spilled over the ‘mess’ that open access has become and the fact that the concept of open access itself has a number of different lineages.

The Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS) is launching its second funding cycle, and OpenCitations is one of three open science infrastructure organizations whose services have been evaluated and selected for presentation to the international scholarly community for crowd-sourced sustainability funding, along with the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) and the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB). OpenCitations is an