British Academy urges national long-form OA strategy
Report calls for institutions, publishers, policy makers, academic, libraries and funders to work together on a plan
Information Power
Small publishers face threat from scale, not open access
Report finds structural inequities rather than OA itself challenge small European academic publishers
Change and a “shared vision” required for OA book publishing
Project had a particular focus on learned society, subject association, and smaller specialist publishers
Pricing framework to foster global equity in scholarly publishing
Framework provides users with guiding principles, data, information, and tools to implement more equitable pricing
Initiative to help book publishers towards open access
Project will have a particular focus on learned society, subject association, and smaller specialist publishers
cOAlition S and ALPSP publish OA toolkit
Smaller independent publishers, libraries, and consortia can now more easily enter into open access agreements
Transformational OA agreements: help or hindrance?
Many believe open access funding agreements will tip the balance of publishing output. But not everyone, says Rebecca Pool
OA transparency report launched at Berlin conference
An independent report aiming to improve the transparency of open access (OA) prices and services is calling for a customer-centric, collaborative and pragmatic approach…