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Converting your Society Journal to Open Access
Societies are vital to academic research, historically extending and solidifying connections across institutions and disciplines. Often, their journals are their primary outlets for academic...
View ArticleCreating an Open Access Journal for your Society
Having a journal for your society can help grow your international presence and provide a research platform to scholars, sharing insights from your organisation. Moreover, adopting an Open Access model...
View ArticleOpen Access in Canada
Canada is expanding its Open Access policy. Presently, plans are being developed across all governmental departments and funding agencies to implement embargo-free Open Access. This is occurring in...
View ArticleEthics in Open Access Publishing
As Open Access continues to become a dominant mode of scholarly publishing, it’s important to reflect on what it is that makes the system work effectively and fairly. A major component are ethics and...
View ArticlePublication Ethics and Updates at MDPI
Ethics requires a careful consideration of what kind of behaviour is deemed to be ‘right’ and applies across all sorts of industries, including academic publishing. Academic publishing is already...
View ArticleOpen Access in Japan
Japan is expanding its Open Access policy. Since 2013, Open Access has been regularly discussed at a policy level, especially in relation to innovation. But policies have been less restrictive and...
View ArticleLeading Female Voices in Open Access Publishing
For International Women’s Day (IWD) 2024, the focus is Inspire Inclusion. Having a diverse and inclusive community is key to achieving the aims of Open Access—removing all barriers to producing and...
View ArticleOpen Access in the UK
The UK is a leader in Open Access policy and practice. Since the mid-2000s, leading UK funding agencies have introduced regular polices and the government has participated in global discussions on the...
View ArticleWhy Open Access is Important
There are a lot of misconceptions about Open Access. Here, we explore why Open Access is important by linking it to academic publishing more broadly and global issues like climate change and health...
View ArticleWhat is the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information?
Data in the form of analytics and indicators are growing increasingly important when measuring productivity and setting priorities in academia. Because we’re relying on data for such important...
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