The White Rose University Press: an academic-led open access publisher

2021 ◽  
pp. 97-104
Author(s):  
Tracey Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Open Access Publisher ◽  
White Rose

scholarly journals Publishing in “Aircraft Design” with a Continuous Open Access Special Issue

Aerospace ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Dieter Scholz
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Aircraft Design ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Scientific Domain ◽  
Open Access Publisher ◽  
Over Time

The article looks at publishing options in the field of aircraft design to find that no dedicated journal on aircraft design exists. For this reason, a Continuous Special Issue Aircraft Design of the well established journal “Aerospace” at the Open Access publisher MDPI is started. Often special issues of a journal are introduced for “hot topics”. Here, the subset “special issue” is used for a scientific domain—in this case “aircraft design”. Recurring single special issues are numbered in sequence and are identified by the year of the deadline for manuscript submissions. This allows for the delivery of several single special issues over time in a row without the need to define a publishing schedule up front. Together these single issues form the Continuous Special Issue Aircraft Design and offer a new publishing home for the aircraft design community.

scholarly journals From the Field: Elsevier as an Open Access Publisher

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 53-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather Morrison
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Open Access Publisher

scholarly journals Polar Research: reflections two years after the journal’s transition to open access

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helle Goldman
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
English Language ◽  
Scientific Journal ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Open Access Publisher ◽  
International Polar ◽  
Norwegian Polar Institute

Established in 1982, Polar Research is the English-language, peer-reviewed, scientific journal of the Norwegian Polar Institute (part of the Ministry of the Environment). Until the end of 2007, it was published by the institute on its own. From 2008 through 2010 it was published in partnership with Blackwell as a toll-access journal. At the beginning of 2011 Polar Research became an all open-access, electronic-only journal, published in partnership with the specialized open-access publisher, Co-Action Publishing. Polar Research is the first (to our knowledge, still the only) important international polar journal to become completely open access. Aimed particularly at the editors and managers of other journals considering making a similar transition, this presentation reflects on Polar Research’s conversion to open access, sharing practical lessons learned during the process and outlining the benefits incurred so far.

scholarly journals Being an Open Access Publisher

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Peters ◽  
Erik Lieungh
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
North America ◽  
Chief Executive ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
The Future ◽  
Open Access Publisher ◽  
The Eu

In this episode, we are talking about what it's like to be an open-access publisher and what the future might bring. Our guest is Paul Peters, chief executive at Hindawi publishing - one of the world’s largest publishers of peer-reviewed, fully Open Access journals. Peters sheds some lights into how Hindawi made the transition to Open Access, and how the company has grown. He also talks about current policies within the EU and how this will affect his company. He also briefly touches upon the topic of how Open Access is perceived outside of Europe, and how there is a different motivation for being Open Access in Asia and in North America. The host of this episode is Erik Lieungh.

scholarly journals The Open Access Strategy of Cappelen Damm Akademisk/NOASP

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorte Østreng
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Scholarly Publishing ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
Open Access Publisher ◽  
Peer Reviewers ◽  
One Year ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Essential Service

Cappelen Damm Akademisk has established an editorial division for Open Access scholarly publishing of journals and books under the name: Nordic Open Access Scholarly Publishing (NOASP). In cooperation with Co-Action Publishing, a pioneer in the field of Open Access publishing, NOASP has established a user-friendly platform that provides suitable presentation, legibility, straightforward navigation, optimal search-functionality and ideal distribution for scholarly journals.NOASP offers editorial support from a team of experienced editors who will steer manuscripts through the various phases of the publication process. The platform is easy to use, for editors, authors and peer-reviewers alike. It has been developed with good workflow, simple logistics and a clear system for handling multiple versions of an article in mind.NOASP was established roughly one year ago. We now have six Open Access journals, three of which are entirely new. We were also the first Norwegian publisher to release an Open Access book, and several more peer-reviewed monographs and anthologies are in the pipeline. NOASP is a member of the Open Access Scholarly Association (OASPA), the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB).The OA landscape is constantly evolving, and as an Open Access publisher, we seek out knowledge and information from experts in the field and connect with important OA-actors internationally, as well as gaining expertise in the Norwegian and Nordic context. We also support and help our journals in the accreditation process and in obtaining governmental financial support. We believe that an important role in being early movers on the OA front in Norway is to be an active part of the evolving process.NOASP provides Open Access publishing on the principle that making research accessible supports a greater exchange of knowledge. As an academic publisher, we believe Open Access publishing is an important supplement to our publication portfolio, and we are dedicated to promoting OA publishing as an essential service to the academic community in the Nordic countries. 

scholarly journals How commercial publishers play a role in developing a sustainable model for Open Access publishing

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marte Ericsson Ryste ◽  
Katia Stieglitz ◽  
Simon Aase
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Scientific Publication ◽  
Scholarly Publishing ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Dissemination Of Research ◽  
The Face ◽  
Open Access Publisher ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Publishing Houses

One of the objectives of the open access movement has been to upend the traditional model for scholarly publishing by making research findings freely available to anyone, anywhere. The trend emerged partly in response to the major publishing houses having become the gatekeepers of the dissemination of research findings and setting high prices for access to this material via subscriptions to scholarly journals.On the face of it, this state of affairs suggests that commercial actors have no place in the realm of open access publishing. However, an argument can be made to the effect that commercial companies have a part to play in transforming the way scientific publication works and contribute to making research freely available. Having numerous interested parties in the OA domain may contribute towards making research accessible, leading to a general increase in innovation. This is necessary in a field that by and large is in its infancy, technologically, politically and economically. An OA initiative that is part of a profit-driven organization does not preclude it from contributing to a sustainable publishing model, and a commercial approach is not necessarily incompatible with the principles.  In this poster we offer NOASP as an example, and part of the wider context of commercial open access publishing. Nordic Open Access Scholarly Publishing is an open access publisher of scholarly journals and books in Scandinavia and a subdivision of Cappelen Damm Akademisk. NOASP was established in 2015 – and continues to grow.  In our experience, meeting the very specific criteria for Open Access publishing requires substantial investments in technology and human resources. Publishers who choose to establish themselves in this niche area must have a long-term strategy and develop specific expertise. Competition between publishing houses and other actors provides incentives for staying abreast of new requirements and standards, technology and infrastructure. These strategic and economic factors directly and positively impact the quality of journals and publishing solutions, and ultimately contribute to innovation in the field. The economics of commercial publishing, by heightening competition between the services publishers provide, therefore leads to improvement of both technical platforms and editorial practices. In turn, this leads to higher quality of the end product and broader distribution of the freely available research, which should ultimately be the goal of the OA movement.

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