The Stacks is an inter-disciplinary subject repository for American studies, Anglophone literatures and cultures, Australian and New Zealand studies, British and Irish studies, Canadian studies, and E...
The European Knowledge Exchange (KE) initiative is launching a new project on the role of alternative publication platforms in academic communication. The aim is to develop well-founded recommendation...
The BMBF starts with a podcast series in which "everything revolves around the publication form of the future. Podcaster and radio presenter Holger Klein and his guests get to the bottom of the subjec...
Eger, T., & Scheufen, M. (2018). The Economics of Open Access. On the Future of Academic Publishing (New Horizons in Law and Economics series). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. From the publisher&ap...
For 15 years now, the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) has actively supported the provision of open access to publicly funded research results. As early as 2004, the FWF adopted an open access policy, whic...
The Swiss company Point Software AG has launched Sciencegate, a search platform for Open Access documents. Sciencegate's internal database currently contains over 26 million data records relating to O...
The study "Open science-related policies in Europe" has examined the open science policies in seven European countries, including Germany. For this purpose, the study authors collected all relevant op...
A study on the state of Open Access in Germany is being conducted within the framework of the project "Options4OA - Strategic and Operative Options for Action for Scientific Institutions and Prof...
The Future of Scholarly Publishing working group of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina has published a discussion paper that proposes a new model for funding scientific journals. The a...
The mantra of academic capitalism is "publish or perish". And even though it is not literally a matter of life and death, researchers are still under pressure to make their research public i...