If you're working on a new open access journal, one of the most important things you can do is seek the advice of editors who are a part of thriving OA publications. Here are a few tenets of successful OA publishing from 4 seasoned editors.
In celebration of Open Access Week 2017, and to help facilitate discussions surrounding OA, we've put together a list of our top 7 OA Resources.
What will Elsevier's acquisition of bepress mean for the journals and institutions that rely on Digital Commons to host open access content? We explore this question following the recent news.
What is the author experience with article processing charges like? In this blog post we break down 5 key insights from a 2017 Knowledge Exchange report from surveys of researchers throughout Europe.
Donna Hughes discusses how she started the open access journal Dignity: A Journal on Sexual Exploitation and Violence and why she chose to do so without a publisher.
Did you miss the live stream of Scholastica's webinar, OA Advocates Weigh in on the Democratization of Academic Journals? You can watch it on-demand!
Royal Society Publishing Director Stuart Taylor sees promise in recent digital publishing innovations, but he believes scholars' continued focus on publishing in brand-name journals may be holding back open access publishing progress.
Scholastica announces the release of Democratizing Academic Journals: Technology, Services, and Open Access, a free-to-read white paper. The paper argues democratization of journal publishing is the key to lowering journal costs and facilitating Open Access.
Björn Brembs explains why he believes journal publishing should be upended from the current model, in which institutions pay publishers for access to content, to one in which the academic community pays for services to publish content and retains ownership of research.
Open Access (OA) advocate Stevan Harnad argues Gold OA will not be effective unless research is made Green OA first. In this interview he shares his vision for universal Green OA.
