Last month, cOAlition S published an annual review of their transformative journals programme, based on data provided by publishers including our own (download our 2022 transformative journals report here).…
The new policy from the OSTP promises a leap forward in the speed of transition to open research in the United States.
We recently submitted our annual Transformative Journals (TJ) report to cOAlition S, and here we share a few highlights with you.…
We are pleased to announce that, for the first time, we are guaranteeing a route to full compliance with UKRI’s new open access policy for the vast majority of researchers in the UK.…
We welcome UKRI’s recently announced new Open Access policy. It is clear that UKRI has listened to a wide range of stakeholders and tried hard to balance their many varied, and often contrasting, needs.…
*UPDATED 17 November 2020* For some time now we have been committed to a transition to totally open research. And therefore we greatly appreciate the commitment that cOAlition S have made to funding the costs of Gold Open Access journal publishing.…
Today we announced our support for Plan S’s transformative journals programme as a welcome new route for our authors to publish Open Access (OA) research articles.…
The US Government’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) is re-evaluating its policies and practices for public access to federally funded scholarly publications, data and code.…
Journals play a key role in the creation and preservation of the academic record. But do we still need them? There is an ongoing discussion in the community about whether all publicly funded research articles must be made freely available on publication, as a pre-final version (the accepted manuscript) if not the final published version.…
In November last year, cOAlition S proposed a new route to compliance with Plan S: transformative journals. In brief, the proposal requires transformative journals to: Grow their Open Access (OA) primary research content by 8 percentage points a year, to flip to wholly OA when they reach 50% OA or by end 2024 at the latest To have transparent pricing for both the OA content (with services breakdown) and subscription content (avoiding double-dipping) To offer APC waivers and discounts To transform to OA with overall cost neutrality To ‘regularly update’ authors on the usage, citations, and online attention of their articles.…
In May, cOAlition S updated their implementation guidelines for Plan S following a consultation period. The revised guidelines provide useful clarity on a number of points, and give us a firmer idea of how the journals we publish can comply with Plan S.…
How long will humankind survive? Besides the fact that we have been able to eliminate ourselves with nuclear weapons for decades, even without a third world war, the challenge to take care of the resources of our planet remains; we need to use them in a way that our children and their children can have a place on Earth as well. In this blog post Andreas Losch discusses his recent review article in the International Journal of Astrobiology, The need of an ethics of planetary sustainability
Q&A with Editor-in-Chief of the Precision Medicine Journal, Dame Anna Dominiczak, for International day of Women and Girls in Science
This is the first post in our new series: “Conversations with Authors.” For our inaugural post, we asked Dr. Vesla Weaver to meet (virtually) with Dr.…
Maria is a smallholder farmer in rural Singida, Tanzania. We worked together for the past few years on the Singida Nutrition and Agroecology Project (SNAP-Tz), a nutrition-sensitive agroecological intervention that sought to improve children’s diet. In it, farmers learned about and experimented with sustainable agriculture, nutrition, and gender equity using an integrated and participatory curriculum
In an era of shrinking research budgets and political pressure to justify public investment, federally funded digital archives in archaeology are delivering measurable, lasting benefits to scholars, land managers, Indigenous communities, and the public.…
The March article of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International is the first blog of the series. The blog is written by Dr Dami Ajayi, Specialty Doctor, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and Trainee/Blog Editor, BJPsych International.…
Some disability-related names have dropped out of usage, because they are now considered to be offensive due to their origins. Down Syndrome (Trisomy 21) is one example.…
How long will humankind survive? Besides the fact that we have been able to eliminate ourselves with nuclear weapons for decades, even without a third world war, the challenge to take care of the resources of our planet remains; we need to use them in a way that our children and their children can have a place on Earth as well. In this blog post Andreas Losch discusses his recent review article in the International Journal of Astrobiology, The need of an ethics of planetary sustainability
It is an article of faith among ordinary Filipinos that American troops will die with Filipino troops defending Philippine claims to the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea (SCS).…
More and more research is finding inflammation as a potential contributing factor towards to the development of various mental illnesses. A systematic review was conducted to determine the association between parasitic infection and mental illnesses in various African populations. Two parasite groups were evaluated; helminths and protozoans, and four mental illness classifications; depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, schizotypal disorders and unspecified mental illnesses.
This is the first post in our new series: “Conversations with Authors.” For our inaugural post, we asked Dr. Vesla Weaver to meet (virtually) with Dr.…
The March article of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International is the first blog of the series. The blog is written by Dr Dami Ajayi, Specialty Doctor, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and Trainee/Blog Editor, BJPsych International.…
Q&A with Editor-in-Chief of the Precision Medicine Journal, Dame Anna Dominiczak, for International day of Women and Girls in Science
The opportunity to showcase some of the exciting archaeological research currently underway on medieval Ethiopia in a journal as widely read as Antiquity is important.
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