Questions tagged [open-access]
On the open-access publishing model, in which journal articles or other academic works are made available to readers free of charge.
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Upload open access pdfs or link to publisher for visibility?
For the PDFs of papers that I have published with (gold or free) open access (i.e., under some CC BY license), which strategy is wiser to increase visibility?
Upload to as many places as possible (e....
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What is the total yearly cost of article processing charges to UK taxpayers?
I'm interested to know the total cost to taxpayers that's spent on open access fees / article processing charges (APCs) per year, via publicly funded science grants and/or specific funds for APCs.
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OJS Implementation Concerns for University Journal
As an editor of a university journal, I'm considering OJS to improve transparency and streamline our manual submission/review process. Before proposing this to our IT team (who aren't very technical), ...
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Licensing for material held in Göttinger Digitalisierungszentrum
I'm having a hard time finding information on how the scanned books in the GDZ are licenced. On this info page https://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/en/copying-digitising/goettingen-digitisation-centre/ ...
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Best way to publish an open-access text book
I'm working in a fairly small research area in computer science, and I'm currently planning to write an introductory textbook on this topic.
My main motivation to do so is that currently there is no ...
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What do these European Commission open access rules mean and how do they translate in practical terms?
My institution has received funding from the European Commission under the Horizon Europe program. In regards to publishing peer-reviewed articles the grant agreement states that:
The beneficiaries ...
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Why do researchers accept the pay-to-publish, pay-to-read model, despite receiving no direct compensation? [closed]
I’ve been thinking about the publishing model in academia (particularly in physics, but this may apply more broadly). Researchers invest a significant amount of time and effort in conducting studies, ...
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How do we provide permission to use a figure that we hired a graphic designer to create in SciRep?
We hired a graphical designer who made us fancy visualisations for our paper.We signed the contract and paid him. He gave us the files and transferred copyrights to the university.
Now, at the ...
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If an article has been released under an open access license, is its corresponding questionnaire also open-access?
I am interested in using a questionnaire found within the appendix of an article that has been released under a CC BY 4.0 International License. Am I free to use this questionnaire (in accordance with ...
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Publicly sharing the writing process of your thesis in real time (Bachelor-, Master or Ph.D.)
I recall hearing about someone who wrote their BA/MA/PhD thesis using Google Docs (or a similar platform) and shared the entire writing process publicly in real time. This person made the process open ...
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Can I arxive a paper that I had already published in a journal(EPL, in my case), so that eveyone can access it?
It's been a couple of years that the paper was published in EPL. But uploading it to arXiv will make it accessible even for normal people without any institution access.
I don't know about any rules ...
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Do publishers actually care about arXiv?
For-profit publishers (my experience is mostly with Springer and Elsevier) typically have some conditions on what you can an cannot do to self-archive your manuscript.
For example, Springer allows you ...
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Can a publication license for one figure be different than the whole article's license?
A funder requires a scholar to publish their paper with a CC-BY license.
However, the paper includes a figure which is taken from another source and which is accompanied with a CC-BY-NC-SA license.
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An article containing a copyrighted figure should be embedded in a stapler thesis: How to fill in RightsLink form?
I wrote an Elsevier article (open-access, CC-BY 4.0) that contains a third party figure from a Springer subscription book. At the time, I obtained a license for re-using the Springer figure in a ...
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Is it possible to share a CC-BY-licensed article on ResearchGate that contains copyrighted material?
My open-access Elsevier article (CC-BY 4.0) contains a third-party figure (from a Springer subscription book). I obtained permission and the caption correctly states that the copyright of the figure ...
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