Study on peer-review procedures at oa-journals
Doctoral thesis on peer-review procedures as a means of assuring the quality of oa-journals Abstract: The present work broadly discusses the problem of quality assurance in the field of scholarly ...
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Study on the impact of the failed DEAL contracts with Elsevier published
In 2018, negotiations on licensing agreements between the scientific publisher Elsevier and DEAL broke down. As a result, around 200 German research institutions terminated their l...
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Study on transformation of subscription-based system to open access published
The Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) has published a study on the transformation of the subscription-based system of scholarly publishing to open access (OA). Entitled "Disrupting the subscripti...
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Success stories highlight the added value of Open Access
Excerpt from a press release issued by the German Research Foundation (DFG) on 31 October 2011 in connection with International Open Access Week 2011: An English-language platform has been publ...
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Support for the Open Library Media Science
The Bielefeld-based transcript Verlag, the Lower Saxony State and University Library (SUB) Göttingen and the Fachinformationsdienst (FID) für Kommunikations-, Media and Film Studies Leipzig (adlr.link...
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Supporting Fair Open Access
Supporting Fair Open Access Authors Sarah Dellmann Michaela Voigt Category Event Report Tags Open Access transformation Diamond Open Access Fair OA Published 01.07.2024 Join the Conversation 1 Comment...
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Supporting Open Science - OpenAIRE-Advance gets underway
At the kick-off meeting of the OpenAIRE-Advance project, the fourth phase of the OpenAIRE project, which took place from 17 to 19 January in Athens, over 50 project partners came together to discuss h...
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Survey on supplementary functions in digital repositories gets underway
An online survey on supplementary functions in digital repositories has just got underway. It is being conducted within the framework of Open Access Statistics, a project funded by the German Research...
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Survey reveals that authors' interest in OA is growing while publishers remain hesitant
The preprint of the report on the results of a survey conducted by Graz University Library is now available. In May and June 2018, Graz University Library's Open Access Office surveyed representative...
