What is Open Access?

New Report on Open Access Monographs

Monographs have been a neglected area of Open Access publishing. Towards a Roadmap for Open Access Monographs is a recently published report looking at how this important format can be used to further open scholarship and research.

Read the report here:
http://repository.jisc.ac.uk/7413/3/Towards_a_Roadmap_for_Open_Access_Monographs_June_2019.pdf

The Guardian View on Academic Publishing

 Read The Guardian's opinion piece on academic publishing:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/04/the-guardian-view-on-academic-publishing-disastrous-capitalism

and letters in response:

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/mar/13/a-price-to-be-paid-for-open-access-academic-publishing

 and Jason Schmitt's article Paywalls block scientific progress. Research should be open to everyone: 

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/mar/28/paywalls-block-scientific-progress-research-should-be-open-to-everyone

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SOJ Psychology

SOJ Psychology is an open access, peer reviewed journal which covers all the functional areas of psychology including cognitive psychology, comparative psychology, developmental psychology, educational psychology, evolutionary psychology and social psychology.

Click here for the latest issue:

https://symbiosisonlinepublishing.com/psychology/volume5-issue2.php