No big deal: calling the publishers’ bluff on high-price access to publicly-funded research
This blog has written a number of posts about open access, and its difficulties. One important impetus for the move towards open access was the increasing use by…
Open access is taking over, but academic institutions are paying as much money as ever: what happened?
The good news is that open access publishing, which allows anyone to read academic papers without needing a subscription, is taking over. The bad news is that academic…
Why moving to diamond open access will not only save money, but also help to protect privacy
Back in September last year, Walled Culture mentioned the consistently high profit margins of 30-40% enjoyed by the academic publisher Elsevier. That’s problematic because these profits flow from…
New research shows traditional open access has failed. Time to do something different
Last week, I wrote about diamond open access. I noted that one of the problems with the “mainstream” form of open access, also known as gold open access,…
Who knew? Diamond open access publishing is not rare at all, but actually very common
Back in December I was extolling the virtues of green open access, which involves academics self-archiving their work so that anyone can freely download it and read it.…
Why environmental non-governmental organizations – and everyone else – should go green (open access)
Open access (OA) – making academic research freely available to all – seems self-evidently a great idea. It’s good for the public, which gains access to work it…