A new independent working group has been set up to examine how UK-funded research findings can be made more accessible. The group will propose a programme of action and make recommendations to government, research funders…
In March 2009, RIN, in association with Universities UK, issued its guidance on paying for open access (OA) publication charges.…
We’ve known for a long time that the scholarly journal publishing business is highly-skewed; or, putting it another way, that it provides a classic instance of the long tail.…
Interactive publications are cool, really cool.…
I was interested to see that the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council in Canada announced last week a special funding scheme to support the publication of articles in open access journals. As they put it in their announcement:…
The Centre for Publishing and the School of Library, Archive and Information Studies at UCL are organising an inaugural Bloomsbury Conference on E-Publishing and E-Publications, to be held on 28?29 June 2007.…
In all the debates about scholarly communications it is easy to overlook the fact that most of the articles published in academic journals are never cited by other researchers; and that applies to up to half the papers published in the most prestigious and …
An article in the latest D-Lib magazine provides a history of the activities of the Zwolle Group, which was established in…
One of the interesting pieces I read over the holiday period is a set of best practice guidelines on publication ethics produced by staff at Blackwells.…
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