Earlier this year SAGE and Jisc organised a librarian roundtable to examine the implications of managing article-processing charges. Siân Harris, who also wrote the report of the event, describes some of the key findings
Earlier this year SAGE and Jisc organised a librarian roundtable to examine the implications of managing article-processing charges. Research Information editor Sian Harris, who also wrote the report of the event, describes some of the key findings
Future research articles authored by faculty at all 10 campuses of the University of California will be made available to the public at no charge, thanks to a new policy
Many recent policies favour openness, and studies show that researchers as readers value this too. However, as authors, researcher priorities are different. Rachel Bruce and David Prosser consider this gap and what can be done to address it
The Directory of Open Access Journals has announced more stringent selection criteria
Paul Peters is the new president of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) from 15 March, taking over from Caroline Sutton
eLife has joined the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association
The UK's House of Lords Science and Technology Committee has criticised Research Councils UK for failures in communicating its open-access policy
Articles in Cambridge University Press' open-access journals can now be published with a CC-BY licence, as well as other CC licence options
The IET has finalised its global editorial board for The Journal of Engineering and reveals article processing charges for all its open-access publishing options
