Open Access: Science Publishing as Science Publishing Should Be

Full and unimpeded access (Open Access) to science literature is needed. It is not provided by the traditional subscription-based publishing model. Instead of criticizing Open Access and attacking its proponents, traditional publishers should make imaginative and innovative efforts to build their businesses around the needs of their customers rather than around their desire to continue a model that may be lucrative, but that is no longer satisfactory to science or society

Open Access is a Choice

Die formale Veröffentlichung von Forschungsergebnissen mit einem Peer-Review-Verfahren wird in der Wissenschaft als notwendig erachtet. Zugleich wird der freie Zugang zu diesen Ergebnissen zunehmend als notwendig erachtet. Manchmal werden diese Bedürfnisse als unvereinbar empfunden, sie sind es aber nicht. Wir müssen von der konventionellen Rolle, die Urheber- recht und Abonnements spielen, wegkommen, um die Möglichkeiten des Publizierens als Dienstleistung voll auszuschöpfen und zugleich freien Zugang zu erhalten.Formal peer-reviewed publication of research results is seen as a necessity in science. But also, open access to these results is increasingly seen as a necessity. The two are sometimes seen as incompatible, but they are not. But we have to get away from the conventional roles of copyright and subscriptions in the system in order to capitalise on the possibilities of publishing as a service, with open access as a result.Not Reviewe

Effects of fragmentation on pollen and gene flow in insect-pollinated plant populations

Effects of fragmentation on pollen and gene flow in insect-pollinated plan Dataset of the fieldwork

Effects of fragmentation on pollen and gene flow in insect-pollinated plant populations

Effects of fragmentation on pollen and gene flow in insect-pollinated plan Dataset of the fieldwork

Open Access is just the beginning

Intervention à la 33e conférence générale annuelle de la Ligue des bibliothèques européennes de recherche (Liber)

Open Access Publishing And Scholarly Societies: A Guide

assess the options available to them for the future of their journal publishing programmes. Though the option of keeping the status quo of subscription-based journals is discussed, the focus is on conversion of existing journals to open access, either in one go, or via an intermediate managed transition phase. This guide doesn’t address issues to do with the conversion to electronic publishing, and neither those to do with basic business planning. The latter have been dealt with in an earlier publication by the Open Society Institute: Guide to Business Planning for Converting a Subscription-based Journal to Open Access, Edition 3, February 20041. It is assumed that journals under consideration are currently operating with a satisfactory inflow of article submissions and also that they are either already available in electronic form, or that the choice is already taken to publish them electronically. Whilst electronic publishing is a sine qua non for open access, it is fast becoming a condition of being able to survive in journal publishing regardless of whether the journal is open access or operating on a subscription model. This guide also doesn’t address issues to do with library budget concerns other than in the context of the diminishing sustainability of the traditional subscription model of scholarly journal publishing