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

Es geht um 22.4 Mio EUR, welche die Schweizer Hochschulen alleine den drei grossen Verlagen Elsevier, Springer und Wiley jährlich für Zeitschriften bezahlen. In 6 Wochen könnte es sein, dass dieses Geld nicht mehr an diese Verlage fliesst.

Wer den empfehlenswerten Beitrag “Open access: The true cost of science publishing” (2013) gelesen hat, blieb ratlos zurück. Die Einschätzungen über die tatsächlichen Kosten eines wissenschaftlichen Artikels reichten von $300 (Hindawi, PeerJ, Ubiquity Press) bis hin zu $30’000 (Nature). Dabei sind nur wenige Verlage auch wirklich transparent über ihre tatsächlichen Kosten. Neu gehört EMBO dazu.

(Cross-posted on the ScholarLed blog) I write a lot about scholar-led publishing. My thesis explored the differences between scholar-led and policy-based forms of open access, and I’ve recently published an article about early academic-led experiments in e-journal publishing.

To mark 10 years of Open Access Week, ScholCommLab co-director Stefanie Haustein explores recent trends in open access and scholarly communication.

As early-career researchers, one of the first things we are told about publishing is not to release our research as part of an edited volume. Chapters in edited volumes are not nearly as valued for career progression as journal articles, even though they may take the same amount of time and care to produce.

Vom 30. September bis 2. Oktober nahmen mehr als 400 Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer an den Open-Access-Tagen 2019 in Hannover teil.

Matt and I are about to submit a paper. One of the journals we considered — and would have really liked in many respects — turned out to use the CC By-NC-SA license. This is a a very well-intentioned licence that allows free use except for commercial purposes, and which imposes the same licence on all derivative works. While that sounds good, there are solid reasons to prefer the simpler CC By licence.