One of the most important distinctions of an academic journal is the rate at which its articles are cited and shared by other academics in a particular year. In academia, this is called the "impact factor." The impact factor of a journal is a measure reflecting the yearly average number of citations to recent articles published in that journal. The higher a journal’s impact factor, the better the chance that the…

Del 24 al 30 d’octubre se celebra la vuitena edició de l’Open Acces Week, un esdeveniment d’abast mundial que promociona l’accés obert al coneixement científic que es produeix arreu del món. Des de l’Escola d’Administració Pública de Catalunya ens sumem a aquesta celebració. L’Escola contribueix a l’accés obert al coneixement, ja que…

Despite many changes in scholarly publishing and evidence for an open access citation advantage, many faculty are still worried about how their publication choices might affect their case for promotion and tenure. Over the past several years, we have identified a few strategies to alleviate those concerns and encourage faculty to include the full range of scholarly products they create along with more diverse metrics for impact. As we describe in a recent College and Research Libraries News…

The first book from Open Access Publisher University of Westminster Press, CRITICAL THEORY OF COMMUNICATION: New Readings of Lukács, Adorno, Marcuse, Honneth and Habermas in the Age of the Internet by Christian Fuchs is now out. The book may be downloaded for free here. 

It is free digitally anyway but UWP is running a…

CENTURION Pretoria, South Africa, 26 October 2016 - It is widely agreed that the knowledge economy represents the future of economic growth for both developed and developing nations. This knowledge comprises intellectual capital, skills proficiency and the potential for innovation, driven firmly by information.

More specifically, growth is dependent on people’s access to, and ability to share and exchange, reliable information.

Passionate about shaping the future of…

When it comes to the production and publication of scientific study, we know two things to be true—there can be no substitute for properly researched, peer-reviewed, and ethically adherent papers; and Open Access is here to stay. There are many in the debate over the present state and future playing field of scientific journal publishing that would tell you that these two truths are mutually exclusive. After thirty plus years in scientific research, education,…

Open Access (OA) publishing is, from my point of view, a logical consequence of the ideals of science because it enables a true open discussion about a certain research matter in…

Mira en vivo las ponencias de la Semana del Acceso Abierto Perú 2016 desde nuestro canal. Estaremos hablando de Ciencia, Educación y Gobierno abierto.

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Watch live the presentations of the Open Access Week 2016 Peru from our channel. We will be talking about Science, Education and Open Government.…

To promote Open Access Week 2016, from October 24 through October 30, ECS is taking down the paywall to the ECS Digital Library (http://ecsdl.org).

Over 132,000 articles will be freely available to anyone who wants to read them. ECS is giving the world a preview of what complete open access will look like when we have completed our Free the Science (http://www.electrochem.org/free-the-science)…

Austin, TX   2,207 users from around the world have implemented repositories with the popular DSpace, out-of-the box, open source, repository software in order to openly share and preserve digital scholarly information from more than 122 countries.

To take a look at the wide range of institutions and organizations that are using DSpace to make their scholarly…

The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) represents South Africa in the international community of science academies, and part of its mission is to proactively and reactively embark on a programme of systematic studies of evidence-based issues of national importance. As a signatory to the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to…

I think this week is the perfect moment to remind the video presenting the Open Science Conference under the NL presidence in April 2016, so everybody can ask him/herself: And you, what are you going to do?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9a3Ap3yyak&feature=youtu.be ;

Open Science/Access in Action!!

To coincide with the International Open Access Week 2016, the Universidade Federal de São Carlos, in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, will be launching its open access institutional repository at 10am on the 25th of October. We especially chose this date so that we can really be a part of this wonderfully motivating week for worldwide open…

I posted a short article on my Library Technology Launchpad website with some ways to participate in Open Access Week 2016.

See http://libtechlaunchpad.com/2016/10/24/open-access-week-2016.

Follow Library Technology Launchpad on Twitter @LTLaunchpad.

Today kicks off Open Access Week 2016. Open Access Week is an annual week-long event that highlights the importance of sharing scientific and scholarly research and data. Its goal is to educate people on the benefits of open publishing, advocate for changes to policy and practice, and build a community to collaborate…

In honor of Open Access Week 2016,Scholastica and Authorea announce a new free-to-download eBook: …

The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota is very pleased to announce the open-access, peer-reviewed publication of Erin Walcek Averett, Jody Michael Gordon, and Derek B. Counts, Mobilizing the Past for a Digital Future: The Potential of Digital Archaeology. Grand Forks, ND: The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota.…

We’re all obsessed with self-measurement. 

We measure how much we’re Liked online. We measure how many steps we take in a day. And as academics, we measure our success using publication counts, h-indices, and even Impact Factors.

But we’re missing something.

As academics, our fundamental job…