Wednesday 23 January 2013

Blog-watching

More articles on Open Access that the Transition Project Team have found interesting:

Mounce, Ross. The Gold OA Plot.
A visualization of different publisher’s OA permissions.

Van Noorden, Richard. Mathematicians Aim to take publishers out of publishing.
Mathematicians are creating a series of free open-access journals that are backed by funding through the French government.

Taylor, Mike. Hiding Your Research Behind a Paywall is Immoral.
Taylor’s opinion piece on open access as it relates to science papers.


Neylon, Cameron. OA and the UK Humanities & Social Sciences: Wrong risks and missed opportunities
 A scientist working for the Science and Technology Facilities Council reflects on the impact of RCUK open access publishing policy for Humanities and Social Science researchers.


Holcombe, Alex O. and Matthew Todd. Free for all: ARC-funded research now open to the public
Australian Research Council (ARC) implements an open access publishing policy for those researchers in receipt of funding.

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