BE-OPEN is a 30-months Horizon 2020 Coordination and Support Action that started on 01 January 2019, and addresses the call MG-4-2-2018 Building Open Science platforms in transport research.
Paradoxically, though the 2017 levels of Open Access article output have markedly declined, the underlying trends tentatively point to the growing or stable levels of Gold Open Access over the last decade with rising levels of hybrid Open Access in recent years. A recent report indicates possible reasons for these developments.
The Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS)
Facilitating funding to ensure the long-term sustainability of the world’s Open Science infrastructure
Die Open Science AG ist eine offene Initiative, welche die Idee freier und offener Wissenschaft und Forschung in Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft und Politik unterstützt.
San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment There is a pressing need to improve the ways in which the output of scientific research is evaluated by funding agencies, academic institutions, and other parties.To address this issue, a group of editors and publishers of scholarly journals met during the Annual Meeting of The American Society for Cell…
GO FAIR: a bottom-up international approach for the practical implementation of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) as part of a global Internet of FAIR Data & Services
OpenUP Hub is an open, dynamic and collaborative knowledge environment that systematically captures, organizes and categorizes research outcomes, best practices, tools and guidelines. Explore the given material about opening up the review-dissemination-assessment phases of the research lifecycle and practices to support the transition to a more open and gender sensitive research environment.
J. Schopfel, and U. Herb (Eds.) (2018)Description based upon print version of record; Postcolonial Open AccessOpen Access Initiatives and Networking in the Global South; Open Science, Open Access: Opportunities for the Global South, or Just Another Trojan Horse from the North?; A Tale of Two Globes: Exploring the North/South Divide in Engagement with Open Educational Resources; Ubuntu: a Social Justice Pillar for Open Access in Sub Saharan Africa; Asymmetry and Inequality as a Challenge for Open Access: An Interview; Bionotes; Index. Title Page; Contents; Preface; Introduction: Open Divide Emerges as Open Access Unfolds; Part One: Global Issues; Openness as Tool for Acceleration and Measurement: Reflections on Problem Representations Underpinning Open Access and Open Science; Open Access, a New Kind of Emerging Knowledge Regime?; Open/Access: Negotiations Between Openness and Access to Research; The Paradox of Success; Open Access and Symbolic Gift Giving; Cooperative Futures: Technologies of the Common in the Collaborative Economy; Part Two: North/South; The Contribution of the Global South to Open Access.
U. Herb, and J. Schöpfel (Eds.) Library Juice Press, Sacramento, CA, (2018); "Provides a critical assessment of the concept and the reality of open access, with a special attention to its impact in the countries of the Global South"--. Part one. Global issues -- Openness as tool for acceleration and measurement : reflections on problem representations underpinning open access and open science -- Open access, a new kind of emerging knowledge regime? -- Open/access : negotiations between openness and access to research -- The paradox of success -- Open access and symbolic gift giving -- Cooperative futures : technologies of the common in the collaborative economy -- Part two. North/South -- The contribution of the Global South to open access -- Postcolonial open access -- Open access initiatives and networking in the Global South -- Open science, open access : opportunities for the Global South, or just another Trojan horse from the North? -- A tale of two globes : exploring the North/South divide in engagement with open educational resources -- Ubuntu : a social justice pillar for open access in Sub Saharan Africa -- Asymmetry and inequality as a challenge for open access : an interview.