Open and Post Peer Review: New Trends in Open Access Publications
- Open Access
- November 30, 2016
All publicly-funded research to be fully accessible by 2020. The European Competitiveness Council has announced that all publicly-funded scientific papers should be available on fully open access platforms by 2020. The council, which is chaired by the Netherlands State secretary for Education, Culture and Science and brings together ministers of science, innovation, trade and industry
READ MOREThe Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), a leading open access journals’ index, has decided to tighten the standards for journals’ acceptance, in order to rule out dubious and inactive publishers. Functioning on a voluntary basis, DOAJ is a community-curated list of peer-reviewed open access journals. In the past few years, the number of journals indexed at
READ MOREData sharing is no longer a question of ‘why’, but rather of ‘when’ and ‘how’.
READ MOREOpen Access mathematics’ journal disrupts the current publishing paradigm.
READ MORENew Open Access roadmap sets the goal for a fully open access world.
READ MOREThe search for financially stable Open Access Platforms. Social Media play a crucial role in connecting people. Those tenaciously tailored for academicians, like Academia and ResearchGate, are doing more than that. They provide a platform where researchers share their research results for free; no strings attached to it. That means they are Open Access platforms erected to challenge the
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