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Springer Nature’s Report Demonstrates the Viability of Open Access Transitions for both Journals and Countries
No full textAuthor: Pablo Markin Published Online: 2017-10-24 URL: http://openscience.com/springer-natures-report-demonstrates-the-viability-of-open-access-transitions-for-both-journals-and-countries/ As its recent data demonstrate, in some European states between 70% and 90% of Springer’s newly published articles are in Open Access, which indicates that the journal- and country-level adoption of Open Access becomes increasingly mainstream, even though it depends on author fee funding availability. Exce..
Preprint Repositories Gain in Institutional Legitimacy and Recognition, Reduce the Attractiveness of Subscription Journals
No full textAuthor: Pablo Markin Published Online: 2018-01-07 URL: http://openscience.com/preprint-repositories-gain-in-institutional-legitimacy-and-recognition-reduce-the-attractiveness-of-subscription-journals/ As Indonesian INA-Rxiv, a country-level preprint repository for papers across different scientific disciplines, is launched, scholars at German research universities and institutions rely on article preprint access during their transition from paywall-based publication models to Open Access. Ex..
Hybrid Open Access Mega-Journals Gain in Traction as Scholarly Societies and Journal Publishers Partner
No full textAuthor: Pablo Markin Published Online: 2017-11-16 URL: http://openscience.com/hybrid-open-access-mega-journals-gain-in-international-traction-as-scientific-societies-and-open-access-publishers-partner/ While developed world universities and libraries weigh the pros and cons of Open Access plus subscription models, developing countries embrace Open Access mega journal-style repositories with open post-publication peer review procedures in partnership with established publishing platforms. Exc..
German Editors-In-Chief and Editorial Board Members Resign from Subscription-Based Elsevier-Owned Journals
No full textAuthor: Pablo Markin Published Online: 2017-10-18 URL: http://openscience.com/german-editors-in-chief-and-editorial-board-members-resign-from-subscription-based-elsevier-owned-journals/ First eight German researchers and scientists have announced their resignation from editorial duties at Elsevier-supported journals on the background of the ongoing efforts of Germany-based universities and research institutes to switch to Open Access. Excerpt As the negotiations over subscription contracts b..
Open Access Leads to the Reorganization of Traditional Publishing Rather than its Decline
No full textAuthor: Pablo Markin Published Online: 2017-08-04 URL: http://openscience.com/open-access-leads-to-the-reorganization-of-traditional-publishing-rather-than-its-decline/ Excerpt [...] as recent developments in the field of Open Access textbooks demonstrate, such as the Canadian BC Open Textbook Project, open access solutions have demonstrated the ability to maintain a quality control of their offerings, while turning them into viable contenders in the publishing market. In Canada, provincia..
Memorial Museums, Exhibition Practices and Collective Past
No full textThe book Exhibiting Atrocity by Amy Sodaro (2017) addresses the reasons for which societies attempt to come to terms with past atrocities and trauma through the creation of memorial museums, as a novel cultural form of commemoration. A Blog Post by Pablo Markin. Sodaro (2017) explores memorial museums as forms that express an ambiguous relationship to the violence of the past, despite their missions to strengthen the democratic values of freedom, tolerance, and human rights. As this author a..
Harriet Tubman, Andrew Jackson and the Twenty-Dollar Bill
No full textOn November 20, 2018, Sheneese Thompson and Franco Barchiesi have published an article entitled “Harriet Tubman and Andrew Jackson on the Twenty-Dollar Bill: A Monstrous Intimacy” in Open Cultural Studies. A Blog Post by Pablo Markin. In their article, Thompson and Barchiesi have explored the “controversy surrounding the announcement by the US Treasury, in April 2016, that the portraits of Harriet Tubman and Andrew Jackson will “share” the twenty-dollar bill” (417). According to these author..
ResearchGate is at the Epicenter of Legal Controversy, as Large Publishers Sue it over Copyright Infringements
No full textAuthor: Pablo Markin Published Online: 2017-10-09 URL: http://openscience.com/researchgate-is-at-the-epicenter-of-legal-controversy-as-large-publishers-sue-it-over-copyright-infringements/ While global publishing companies, e.g., Elsevier, Wiley and Brill, take ResearchGate to court over scientific article sharing, transition to Open Access can unshackle communication between scholars from legal constraints, due to its licensing conditions. Excerpt As a blog post by Robert Harrington publish..
Recent Pre-Print Findings Cast Doubt and Spark Discussion on the Citation Performance of Open Access Journals
No full textAuthor: Pablo Markin Published Online: 2017-10-06 URL: http://openscience.com/recent-pre-print-findings-cast-doubt-and-spark-discussion-on-the-citation-performance-of-open-access-journals/ While Green and hybrid Open Access articles have been tentatively found to out-perform paywall-protected articles based on their citation statistics, Gold Open Access articles show lower citation levels than subscription access articles, which could be due to revenue performance differences between respecti..
The Journal Publishing Market Between Supply- and Demand-Side Models: The Case of Open Access in Germany
No full textAuthor: Pablo Markin Published Online: 2017-08-25 URL: http://openscience.com/the-journal-publishing-market-between-supply-and-demand-side-models-the-case-of-open-access-in-germany/ Without significant support for Open Access journals, large-scale transitions to Open Access may be slow to come, as the German case indicates. Excerpt In their recent news item for the Science Magazine, Gretchen Vogel and Kai Kupferschmidt have expressed their expectation that a concerted negotiation front that ..
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