Open Access Week 2023 (October 23-29, 2023)

 

This year’s theme is 'Community over Commercialization' and seeks to encourage a candid conversation about which approaches to open scholarship prioritize the best interests of the public and the academic community - and which do not.

See more information here:

International Open Access Week

Open Access Network website

Useful website with an introduction to Open Access:

open-access.network: What is Open Access?

and Open Access in psychology:

open-access.network: Open Access in Psychology

The Platformisation of Scholarly Information and How to Fight It

Abstract of article on current issues within Open Access by Lai Ma:

The commercial control of academic publishing and research infrastructure by a few oligopolistic companies has crippled the development of open access movement and interfered with the ethical principles of information access and privacy. In recent years, vertical integration of publishers and other service providers throughout the research cycle has led to platformisation, characterized by datafication and commodification similar to practices on social media platforms. Scholarly publications are treated as user-generated contents for data tracking and surveillance, resulting in profitable data products and services for research assessment, benchmarking and reporting. Meanwhile, the bibliodiversity and equal open access are denied by the dominant gold open access model and the privacy of researchers is being compromised by spyware embedded in research infrastructure. This article proposes four actions to fight the platformisation of scholarly information after a brief overview of the market of academic journals and research assessments and their implications for bibliodiversity, information access, and privacy: (1) Educate researchers about commercial publishers and APCs; (2) Allocate library budget to support scholar-led and library publishing; (3) Engage in the development of public research infrastructures and copyright reform; and (4) Advocate for research assessment reforms.

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https://doi.org/10.53377/lq.13561

Council calls for transparent, equitable, and open access to scholarly publications

A call for immediate and unrestricted open access in publishing research involving public funds.

See further details here:

Council calls for transparent, equitable, and open access to scholarly publications - Consilium (europa.eu)