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Green OA vs. Gold OA. Which one to choose?
The advantages and disadvantages of Green and Gold OA are discussed by the scientific community all the time. Which form of these two models is more open and accessible? Which one should be treated as...
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ArXiv to receive funds from the European Research Council
ArXiv is a well-known open repository (Green Open Access) for all scientists interested in mathematics or physics. It holds more than 875,000 e-papers – mainly in computer science, statistics, physics...
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Green Open Access on your iPhone: ArXiv Mobile App
With more than 875,000 e-papers – mainly in computer science, statistics, physics and mathematics – arXiv.org is a very well known repository where scientists and researchers can find articles and...
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Green Open Access on your Android device: ArXiv mobile
Recently, I wrote about an extremely useful iPhone app, which allows users to access the arXiv.org repository on their mobile. However, do not worry if you are an Android device user, as there is...
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What is Green Open Access? Useful links for beginners
Open Access as a model for publishing research results has many variations. One of them is Green Open Access. But what exactly is Green OA? In a sentence, it is a way of self-archiving. The researcher...
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Green Open Access on the move
Green Open Access (self-archiving) is a growing trend in publishing and disseminating research results. Almost every university and research institution now has its own repository for scientific...
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Delayed vs. Immediate Open Access
There has been some debate about delayed Open Access, if it can even be called Open Access, and whether this form of sharing research is more or less effective than immediate OA, especially in the...
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Green, Gold, Gratis and Libre Open Access – brief overview for beginners
The scientific community has adopted a division of Open Access into two main types: Green and Gold. Almost everyone who has had contact with Open Access knows what lies behind these two terms. But...
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Springer changes its self-archiving policy
Green OA or Gold OA? The advantages and disadvantages of either model remains a never-ending topic of discussion. Both sides of the dispute have valid arguments and motivations, which makes it...
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What is Open Access? Useful links for beginners
Open Access. This term is right now bandied about in various ways and analyzed from all possible perspectives – from a simple reduction, to defining a new model of publishing, growing in strength as a...
View ArticleOn the (in)visibility of green Open Access in Latin America
The most important benefit for authors of publishing in Open Access is the increased visibility of their work. Theoretically, Open Access content can be read by anyone, anywhere in the world, while...
View ArticleTo open or not to open? – Hard to say
Green and gold open access should be discussed as separate phenomenons, with a different set of factors that may foster or inhibit their growth. While green open access is driven mostly by the ethical...
View ArticleThe green attitude
In my recent post I have discussed open access to academic book chapters. However, I was focused on one of its form only, which is organized by publishers. And similar to the case of academic articles,...
View ArticleUnsolved problem – green open access to academic book chapters
We, the open access promoters, have been focused primarily on academic papers. As a result, we still have a lot of work in promoting open access to other forms of academic output. As I concluded in my...
View ArticleOnly gold counts – open access books
Green open access to academic books seems to be a marginal phenomenon. Among respondents of the Key Challenges of Research Communication De Gruyter Open Survey only 17 authors archived an open access...
View ArticleThe first Open Access Repository in Malta: two years of challenges and...
Two years after the launch of the first open access repository in Malta, Ryan Scicluna* comes up with some thoughts on the evolution of this project. Unfortunately, disseminating information and...
View ArticleHong Kong’s Open Access Weeks Chart the Growing Awareness of Knowledge...
Rather than transfer the copyright to their articles to large publishers via exclusive agreements, Hong Kong’s researchers increasingly opt for Open Access. A Blog Article by Pablo Markin. From 2015,...
View ArticleRecent Pre-Print Findings Cast Doubt and Spark Discussion on the Citation...
While Green and hybrid Open Access articles have been tentatively found to out-perform paywall-protected articles based on their citation statistics, Gold Open Access articles show lower citation...
View ArticleCase Study Findings Show Transitioning Scientific Journals to Gold Open...
The successful conversion of RSC Advances published by the Royal Society of Chemistry into Gold Open Access since October 2016 indicates the maturity of the Open Access model, its acceptance by the...
View ArticleA Growing Number of International Open Access Initiatives Are Launched by...
As the august American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) founded in 1848 and publishing Science and other scientific journals, has announced on November 21, 2017, its Science Partner...
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