Last week, I unveiled Open Access graphic 3.0. However, it was still pretty terrible, seeing as I have absolutely no creative design skills at all. Luckily, my girlfriend, and the other part of ‘Team Open’, Lisa Matthias, does. She made this wonderful infographic below, which is free for anyone to re-use and share as they […]
The last iteration of this post made the assumption that ‘gold’ Open Access meant you had to pay for it. I of all people should know that this is what us English scientists call ‘pish-posh’. It turns out that in reality, around 70% of journals indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) have […]
Publishing Open Access can cost a lot of money. Some journals charge up to $6000 for a single article, called an APC or article-processing charge. While researchers themselves rarely actually have to foot these bills, as their institutes of funders pay on their behalf, this sort of ‘pay to publish’ model for Open Access creates […]
Embargo periods on scientific research are now fairly commonplace. They are sanctions imposed by publishers on different versions of a research manuscript, often termed the author-accepted manuscript (AAM) or post-print, in order to delay public release of those versions. Typically at this stage, the publishers themselves have had little or no input to the process besides […]