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Initiatives like CRAFT-OA and DIAMAS aim to enhance Open Access Diamond Journals’ (OADJs) capacities through digital solutions, yet the technological landscape remains heterogeneous. This deliverable conducts a gap analysis, assessing the alignment of OADJs with recommended technical best practices outlined in the Report on standards for best publishing practices and basic technical requirements in the light of FAIR principles (Armengou et al., 2023). The analysis employs a versatile approach, combining quantitative analysis of various datasets and desk research on studies and reports. Case studies of European platforms further enrich the evaluation. The assessment identifies technical gaps and successes and lacks a comprehensive OADJs registry that the CRAFT-OA project will address through solutions like the Diamond Discovery Hub.

On behalf of the Swedish government, the National Library of Sweden (Kungliga biblioteket, KB) has developed national guidelines for open science. The guidelines are intended to provide support and guidance to actors in Sweden who have an important role to play in the transition to open science.

Cloud and AI are the most important technologies today, and both have outstripped open source licenses. It’s time for a new open source definition.

University Libraries is doing its part to reduce stress and save money for college students by publishing open textbooks written by Virginia Tech faculty. Open textbooks are made freely available online under an open license. You can learn more about open textbooks here: https://bit.ly/VTOERShowcase

This post is a press release issued by Wiley and the University of California. Hoboken, NJ – January 11, 2024 – The 10-campus University of California system and 48 private and public academic and research institutions represented by the Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC) have reached a new open access agreement with Wiley, one of the world’s largest publishers. The three-year deal begins this month, and will make more research eligible for open access publication than any partnership of its kind in California.  “Some of the most groundbreaking research in the world is done right here in California, driving […]

The goal of open access is to allow more people to read and use research outputs. An observed association between highly cited research outputs and open access has been claimed as evidence of increased usage of the research, but this remains controversial. A higher citation count also does not necessarily imply wider usage such as citations by authors from more places. A knowledge gap exists in our understanding of who gets to use open access research outputs and where users are located. Here we address this gap by examining the association between an output’s open access status and the diversity of research outputs that cite it. By analysing large-scale bibliographic data from 2010 to 2019, we found a robust association between open access and increased diversity of citation sources by institutions, countries, subregions, regions, and fields of research, across outputs with both high and medium–low citation counts. Open access through disciplinary or institutional repositories showed a stronger effect than open access via publisher platforms. This study adds a new perspective to our understanding of how citations can be used to explore the effects of open access. It also provides new evidence at global scale of the benefits of open access as a mechanism for widening the use of research and increasing the diversity of the communities that benefit from it.

Le CNRS s’est depuis plusieurs années engagé en faveur de la science ouverte.

Sune Dueholm Müller At the beginning of February 2023, I discovered that the Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems (SJIS) had been hijacked. As editor-in-chief of the publication, I had been …