As some people abroad were interested in my earlier posts on the German DEAL contracts, I have decided to summarise here some key points of the new contracts with Wiley, Springer Nature and Elsevier. The…
Tag: Open Access
Open Journal Systems (OJS) Installationen in Deutschland
Hier nur eine kurze Ergänzung zum Posting über APC-Verwaltung und Bibliotheken, die ich auslagere, um besagtes Posting nicht aufzublähen. Wie im Beitrag zur APC-Verwaltung geschrieben, ermittelte ich 2018 246 mit der Software Open Journal Systems (OJS), die für…
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APC-Verwaltung in Bibliotheken
APC-Verwaltung in Bibliotheken Am 31.05. halte ich einen Vortrag beim diesjährigen Bibliothekskongress, und zwar in der öffentlichen Sitzung der dbv-Kommission Erwerbung und Bestandsentwicklung. Thema der Session ist “APC-Verwaltung in Bibliotheken”, also das Management der für Open…
Open Access Transformation in Switzerland & Germany
Christian Gutknecht published an exciting posting on the Swiss EUR 57 million Elsevier deal in which he outlines the transformative Open Access agreement between Elsevier and swissuniversities. Since Germany has been trying for years to…
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Open Access Heatmap 2020
Just as 2016, 2015 and 2014 I produced an Open Access Heatmap 2020. It shows how many Open Access journals are published per country using data provided by the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).…
German Consortium with the Open Access publisher Frontiers
The Forschungszentrum Jülich and Frontiers signed a Memorandum of Understanding for a German Consortium with the Open Access publisher Frontiers.
Study on the qualitative perception of Open Access
A contract study on the qualitative perception of Open Access was completed at the end of last year. The study was carried out as part of the third-party funded project visOA: Making Open Access publications…
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Norway and Elsevier meet a eighteen million Euro agreement including a Gold Open Access clause
The Norwegian consortium for higher education and research and the publishing house Elsevier agreed two days ago to a national license. This provides Norwegian researchers not only access to articles published in Elsevier’s journals (including…