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Paywall Article: "Pirate Open Access as Electronic Civil Disobedience: Is It Ethical to Breach the Paywalls of Monetized Academic Publishing?"

Posted in Copyright, Digital Copyright Wars, Publishing, Scholarly Journals on February 28th, 2020

https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24351

Small Journals Benefit More from Highly-Cited Paper: "Impact Factor Volatility to a Single Paper: A Comprehensive Analysis"

Posted in Publishing, Scholarly Journals, Scholarly Metrics on February 27th, 2020

https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.02533

"SAGE Launches Portal to Streamline Open Access Publishing Process"

Posted in Open Access, Publishing, Scholarly Journals on February 27th, 2020

http://www.stm-publishing.com/sage-launches-portal-to-streamline-open-access-publishing-process/

"IOP Publishing and Austrian Academic Library Consortium Renew Three-Year OA Agreement"

Posted in License Agreements/Contracts, Open Access, Publishing, Research Libraries, Scholarly Journals on February 26th, 2020

https://www.miragenews.com/iop-publishing-and-austrian-academic-library-consortium-renew-three-year-oa-agreement/

"MIT Framework for Publisher Contracts Yields New Open-Access Model"

Posted in ARL Libraries, License Agreements/Contracts, Open Access, Publishing, Research Libraries, Scholarly Journals on February 26th, 2020

http://news.mit.edu/2020/mit-framework-publisher-contracts-yields-new-open-access-model-0224

SPARC: "Elsevier Exit: Q&A with Florida State University about their Big Deal Cancellation(s)"

Posted in ARL Libraries, License Agreements/Contracts, Publishing, Research Libraries, Scholarly Journals, Serials Crisis on February 26th, 2020

https://sparcopen.org/news/2020/elsevier-exit-qa-with-florida-state-university-about-their-big-deal-cancellations/

"Project to Explore Open Access Agreements between Society Publishers and Library Consortia in Developing and Transition Economy Countries"

Posted in License Agreements/Contracts, Research Libraries, Scholarly Journals on February 25th, 2020

https://www.informationpower.co.uk/project-to-explore-open-access-agreements-between-society-publishers-and-library-consortia-in-developing-and-transition-economy-countries/

"Opening Science: The Rebirth of a Scholarly Journal"

Posted in Open Access, Publishing, Scholarly Journals on February 25th, 2020

https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_e_00025

"Article Processing Charges: Mirroring the Citation Impact or Legacy of the Subscription-Based Model?"

Posted in Open Access, Publishing, Scholarly Journals, Scholarly Metrics on February 25th, 2020

https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00015

"American Chemical Society and the Austrian Academic Library Consortium (KEMÖ) Announce Their First ‘Read and Publish’ Agreement"

Posted in License Agreements/Contracts, Open Access, Publishing, Scholarly Journals on February 24th, 2020

https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/newsreleases/2020/february/acs-and-the-austrian-academic-library-consortium-kemo-announce-first-read-and-publish-agreement.html

"Crossref: The Sustainable Source of Community-Owned Scholarly Metadata "

Posted in Metadata, Publishing, Scholarly Journals on February 24th, 2020

https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00022

"No Raw Data, No Science: Another Possible Source of the Reproducibility Crisis"

Posted in Data Curation, Open Data, and Research Data Management, Open Access, Open Science, Publishing, Scholarly Journals on February 24th, 2020

https://doi.org/10.1186/s13041-020-0552-2

"Developing a Research Data Policy Framework for All Journals and Publishers"

Posted in Data Curation, Open Data, and Research Data Management, Open Access, Open Science, Publishing, Scholarly Journals on February 24th, 2020

http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2020-005

OSTP: "Request for Information: Public Access to Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Publications, Data and Code Resulting From Federally Funded Research"

Posted in Legislation and Government Regulation, Open Access, Publishing, Scholarly Journals on February 21st, 2020

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/02/19/2020-03189/request-for-information-public-access-to-peer-reviewed-scholarly-publications-data-and-code

Agreements to Allow Faculty to Publish in Fully OA Journals: "The ‘Pure Publish’ Agreement"

Posted in License Agreements/Contracts, Open Access, Publishing, Research Libraries, Scholarly Journals on February 21st, 2020

https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2020/02/20/pure-publish/

"Business as Usual with Article Processing Charges in the Transition towards OA Publishing: A Case Study Based on Elsevier"

Posted in Open Access, Publishing, Scholarly Journals on February 21st, 2020

https://doi.org/10.3390/publications8010003

"Open Access+ Service: Reframing Library Support to Take Research Outputs to Non-Academic Audiences"

Posted in Open Access, Publishing, Research Libraries, Scholarly Journals, Social Media on February 21st, 2020

http://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.499

"Trump Hesitates on Plan for Open Access Mandate"

Posted in Legislation and Government Regulation, Open Access, Open Science, Publishing, Scholarly Journals on February 21st, 2020

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/trump-hesitates-plan-open-access-mandate

"First US–Based University Press Signs Jisc Transitional Open Access Agreement for UK Higher Education"

Posted in License Agreements/Contracts, Open Access, Publishing, Research Libraries, Scholarly Journals on February 20th, 2020

https://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/first-us-based-university-press-signs-jisc-transitional-open-access-agreement-19-feb-2020

"University of Toronto Agrees to First Open Access Publishing Deal with Karger Publishers"

Posted in ARL Libraries, License Agreements/Contracts, Open Access, Publishing, Research Libraries, Scholarly Journals on February 20th, 2020

https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/news/university-toronto-agrees-first-open-access-publishing-deal-karger-publishers

"PLOS CEO Alison Mudditt Discusses New OA Agreement with the University of California"

Posted in ARL Libraries, License Agreements/Contracts, Open Access, Publishing, Research Libraries, Scholarly Journals on February 20th, 2020

https://poynder.blogspot.com/2020/02/plos-ceo-alison-mudditt-discusses-new.html

Paywall Article: "Predatory Publishing and the Academic Librarian: Developing Tools to Make Decision"

Posted in Open Access, Publishing, Research Libraries, Scholarly Journals on February 20th, 2020

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02763869.2020.1693205?af=R

"MSU Libraries and De Gruyter Sign Agreement to Provide Open Access Publishing for MSU Authors"

Posted in ARL Libraries, License Agreements/Contracts, Open Access, Publishing, Scholarly Journals on February 19th, 2020

https://blogs.lib.msu.edu/news-msu-libraries/2020/feb/msu-libraries-and-de-gruyter-sign-agreement-provide-open-access

"Irish Higher Education Institutions and Elsevier Sign a Pilot Transformative Agreement to Support Open Access for Research in Ireland "

Posted in License Agreements/Contracts, Open Access, Publishing, Research Libraries, Scholarly Journals on February 19th, 2020

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/irish-higher-education-institutions-and-elsevier-sign-a-pilot-transformative-agreement-to-support-open-access-for-research-in-ireland-301006190.html

"Defining Predatory Journals and Responding to the Threat They Pose: A Modified Delphi Consensus Process"

Posted in Open Access, Publishing, Scholarly Journals on February 17th, 2020

http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-035561