When it comes into force at the beginning of 2021, the Open Access initiative “Plan S” is poised to help opening up and improving academic publishing. Ulrich Pöschl, a chemist and Open Access advocate of the first hour, explains why free access to research results is important and how an up-to-date academic publishing system can […] Continue reading ““It’s hard to explain why this is taking so long””
The Austrian Science Fund FWF has worked to promote free and open access to scholarly knowledge for the last 15 years. Its funding policies have helped to bring about a long overdue cultural shift in publishing practice. Now “Plan S” is being launched, a new initiative to finally ring in an era of Open Science. Continue reading “The end of the paywall in science”
The Center for Open Science in Virginia, USA, aims to nudge incentives in scholarly communication toward openness of the research lifecycle. In the interview with scilog its director, Brian Nosek, explains why transparency and sharing data will help researchers succeed. Continue reading “On a mission”
Caroline Edwards is a Founder and Director of the Open Library of Humanities (OLH). In the interview with scilog the literary scholar explains how the platform wants to change academic publishing in the humanities and why it is crucial to get the community on board. Continue reading “The ‘gold route’ to Open Science”