scholarly journals Open Access Publishing from the Legal Point of View. Why Freedom of Information Rules and Other Legal Principles Matter. Towards A New Fair Open Access Model.

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 480-485
Author(s):  
Jiří Kolman ◽  
Petr Kolman
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Freedom Of Information ◽  
Fair Competition ◽  
Research Programmes ◽  
National Competition ◽  
Publicly Supported ◽  
Research Standards ◽  
Access Model

This article focuses on aspects that, as far as we know, have never been discussed in previous debates dealing with open access. The EU and national competition legal rules ensuring fair competition are a rather neglected aspect of open access. Another crucial topic is the unfairness of the current publication system. Why should commercial publishers be paid by publicly supported research such as EU or national research programmes? In the article a new publication model is suggested. The proposed model is trying to keep high research standards, to be fair to researchers and the public and to take into account the actual costs of the new open access model.

scholarly journals Open Access Publishing from the Legal Point of View. Why Freedom of Information Rules and Other Legal Principles Matter. Towards A New Fair Open Access Model.

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 480-485
Author(s):  
Jiří Kolman ◽  
Petr Kolman
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Freedom Of Information ◽  
Fair Competition ◽  
Research Programmes ◽  
National Competition ◽  
Publicly Supported ◽  
Research Standards ◽  
Access Model

This article focuses on aspects that, as far as we know, have never been discussed in previous debates dealing with open access. The EU and national competition legal rules ensuring fair competition are a rather neglected aspect of open access. Another crucial topic is the unfairness of the current publication system. Why should commercial publishers be paid by publicly supported research such as EU or national research programmes? In the article a new publication model is suggested. The proposed model is trying to keep high research standards, to be fair to researchers and the public and to take into account the actual costs of the new open access model.

scholarly journals A new funding model for open-access monographs

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Eve ◽  
Frances Pinter
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
International Partnership ◽  
Funding Model ◽  
Revenue Model ◽  
Library Journal ◽  
Traditional Publisher ◽  
Access Model

We outline the work of a university press, with assistance from the COPIM Project (Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs), in building an innovative revenue model to fund open access monographs at a traditional publisher. Building on library journal subscription models (eg: OLH) and on Knowledge Unlatched's approach to monograph funding, we present a sustainable OA publishing model that gives members exclusive access to a backlist, with the revenue then used to make the frontlist openly accessible. The model can be emulated by other scholarly presses who wish to take advantage of the opportunities that open access publishing affords. Supporting information: Led by Dr Frances Pinter (Publishing Advisor, & founder of Knowledge Unlatched) and Professor Martin Paul Eve (OLH, Birkbeck & COPIM) the case study explores an innovative revenue model that will transition new titles at a well-known publisher to a viable open-access model. COPIM is an international partnership of researchers, universities, librarians, publishers and infrastructure providers working on bringing about a new OA publishing ecosystem. Their remit is to build a revenue infrastructure, and examine production workflows and metadata, experimental publishing and archiving. The project is working with colleagues across the sector to document existing and potential ways of funding open-access monographs and is consulting with academics, publishers, libraries, funders, and policy makers. The publisher case study aims to initiate and document a ‘working model’ as the next step in creating a practical toolkit and roadmap for other publishers.

scholarly journals “Book is a book is a book is a book”? Open Access monographs and the changing nature of contemporary scholarly publishing.

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agata Morka
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Career Advancement ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Scholarly Book ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
Related Point ◽  
Successful Business ◽  
Access Model

See video of the presentation.Publishing an article in open access is hardly an act of courage anymore, as this model has been successfully applied to scholarly journals for quite a while now. The idea of publishing a book in OA is, on the other hand, still seen as a rather eccentric idea.  This presentation looks closer at this very eccentricity, examining current developments in the application of OA models with respect to books. It focuses on three main questions: successful business models, academic systems of career advancement and scholars’ attitudes towards open access. Although delivered by a publisher, rather than looking at the idea of open access monograph from a strictly business-related point of view, it seeks to paint a more nuanced landscape of the changing nature of the scholarly book itself and the challenges it faces. Using the open access model as a tool, it proposes to redefine the boundaries of the very nature of the contemporary scholarly monograph and encourages rethinking of the current mechanisms of construction and dissemination of knowledge.

我國新修正公開發行公司出席股東會使用委託書規則之評析

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (18) ◽  
pp. 1-42
Author(s):  
王偉霖 王偉霖
Keyword(s):  
Financial Institution ◽  
Comparative Law ◽  
Shareholder Activism ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Good Faith ◽  
Freedom Of Information ◽  
Fair Competition ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
A Company ◽  
Unlimited Amount

股東會為公司最高意思決定機關，然現實上因公司規模擴大，股權分散，令現今股東會轉化為徵求委託書的過程，亂象紛呈，故有需要對股東使用委託書給予適當規範，但規範之制定應符合訊息公開、公平競爭以及誠實信用等原則。金管會對於委託書規則之制定向來採嚴格監理的態度。在委託書規則修正前，學界已批評徵求人持股門檻過高，豈料新修正委託書規則再提高門檻，其中對金融機構無限徵求規定最為嚴格。本文以為此修改似違股東行動主義；且區分金融機構與非金融機構為不同規定似亦缺乏合理基礎，就比較法之角度而言亦有再研議之空間。為此，本文將由委託書制度之起源利弊，法律對徵求委託書之限制，比較法觀點，評析新修正委託書規則並提出部分建議。 The shareholder meeting has the upmost power that makes decisions for a company. However, as a company grows on its scale, shares often disperse, turning share holders' meetings nowadays into competitions to solicit proxies for attendance at shareholder meetings. To prevent chaotic situations that come with, the use of proxies need to be regulated. The regulation shall comply with the doctrine of freedom of information, fair competition, and good faith. Financial Supervisory Commission has always had a stringent supervising front towards the regulation of soliciting proxies. There had been plenty critics, from the academic circle, that the threshold for solicitors' shares is too high. Much to everyone's surprise, the threshold is raised to even higher with the amendment of Regulations Governing the Use of Proxies for Attendance at Shareholder Meetings of Public. The threshold for financial institution to solicit unlimited amount of proxies are especially stringent. This article finds that this amendment might contradict with shareholder activism. Moreover, there seems to lack a legitimate ground for treating financial institution differently from the non-financial institution. More could be thought over from the point of view of comparative law. Therefore, this article reviews the recent amendment, taking into account the fountainhead, the pros and cons and the restrictions on the proxies in light of comparative law and provides some suggestions.

scholarly journals Open Access Publishing Trends in the Forest Sciences

Forests ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 238
Author(s):  
Kevin O’Hara
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
Research Institutions ◽  
The Public ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Professional Societies ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
Access Model

Open access models for academic publishing offer an alternative to traditional subscription-based journals. In the open access model, the author generally retains the copyright and the published articles are available free on the internet. Publication costs are either borne by the author as article processing charges, or are free for some journals published by societies or institutions. Traditional subscription-based journals are funded by subscription costs to libraries and individuals, the publisher retains the copyright, and these journals are generally not freely available to the public. This traditional model has created two problems: (1) many for-profit publishers control access in a form of oligopoly and impose high costs to subscribers; and (2) it limits access of scientific information to the public which disproportionately affects poorly funded research institutions and developing countries. Other subscription-based journals are published by scientific and professional societies but are not “for-profit”. In the forest sciences, several open access journals emerged in the last 10–15 years. These open access journals are published by for-profit publishing companies, research institutions, and professional societies. Some of these journals have been successful at attracting manuscript submissions, becoming indexed by various indexation services, and have seen metrics representing their importance increase over time. This paper documents these trends and assesses the viability of the open access model in the forest sciences and compares them to other types of journals.

scholarly journals Open access for the medical librarian

2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather Morrison ◽  
Andrew Waller
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Medical Research ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
Medical Librarian ◽  
Open Access Resources ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The University ◽  
Access Policies

In this article open access is defined, and the resources and issues of greatest relevance to the medical librarian are discussed. The economics of open access publishing is examined from the point of view of the university library. Open access resources, both journals and articles in repositories, are already significant and growing rapidly. There are close to 2300 fully open access, peer-reviewed journals listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) (320 health sciences titles are included). DOAJ is adding new titles at the rate of 1.5 per day. An OAIster search of resources in repositories includes more than 7.6 million items (a rough estimate of the number of articles in repositories, although not all items are full text), and this number will exceed one billion items before the end of 2007. Medical research funders, including the US National Institutes of Health, the Wellcome Trust, the UK Medical Research Council, and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, either have implemented or are considering open access policies. This will drive greater growth in open access resources, particularly in the area of medicine. There are implications and leadership opportunities for librarians in the open access environment.

scholarly journals A golden era for Open Access or a trend towards the golden road to Open Access?

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dirk Pieper
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Publication Output ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
German Research Foundation ◽  
Executive Summary ◽  
Support Programme ◽  
The Common ◽  
Article Processing Charges

When looking at the „Dramatic Growth of Open Access“[1] it seems that we live in a golden era for Open Access (OA). From a library point of view one could notice a trend to the golden road to OA. The German Research Foundation (DFG) started the support programme „Open Access Publishing“[2] in 2010 with the overall goal, to help universities to establish long-lasting and reliable structures for paying OA publications which demand article processing charges. The recent discussion about the Finch Report[3] shows the precariousness about the role of publishers, and libraries fear about escalating costs again, if OA moves mainly towards the golden road. This presentation explaines the DFG programme and highlights the experiences of Bielefeld University Library (UL) within and concludes, that riding on the golden road is not the only way for libraries, to support universities making their publication output as visible as possible. Bielefeld UL started the support of OA publications with paying article processing charges back in 2004 with  a BioMed Central membership and introduced a publication funds in 2008. In 2011 and 2012 the publication funds is supported by the above mentioned DFG programme. Besides the conventional questions like building a helpdesk for OA or how to organise the process from requesting money for OA publications by university members until the payment of article fees it became clear, that it is important to determine the publications of Bielefeld University as much as possible. The common publisher tools can only capture a part of the overall publication output of a university. Thus, the main focus of Bielefeld UL within the DFG programme lies on the integration of funding, detection and the enhancement of outside publicity of publications. Further on, Bielefeld University decided not to support hybrid OA publications anymore. For the next step, Bielefeld UL plans to install a clearing centre for OA at Bielefeld University. The now established system PUB (Publications at Bielefeld University) gives the UL a more valid basis than „Web of Science“ or „SCOPUS“ when trying to estimate the possible costs for golden OA. From the perspective of increasing the visibilty of Bielefeld University publications as much as possible and from the perspective of economic costs alone the OA strategy Bielefeld UL will include supporting the green road in the future as well.[1] Heather Morrison, http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/[2] http://www.dfg.de/formulare/12_20/12_20.pdf[3] http://www.researchinfonet.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Finch-Group-report-executive-summary-FINAL-VERSION.pdf

scholarly journals Transitioning the information retrieval literature to a fully open access model

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Djoerd Hiemstra ◽  
Marie-Francine Moens ◽  
Raffaele Perego ◽  
Fabrizio Sebastiani
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Road Map ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Access Model

Almost all of the important literature on Information Retrieval (IR) is published in subscription-based journals and digital libraries. We argue that the lack of open access publishing in IR is seriously hampering progress and inclusiveness of the field. We propose that the IR community starts working on a road map for transitioning the IR literature to a fully, "diamond", open access model.

ATTITUDE TO OPEN ACCESS IN RUSSIAN SCHOLARLY COMMUNITY: 2018. SURVEY RESULTS AND ANALYSIS

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. K. Razumova ◽  
N. N. Litvinova ◽  
M. E. Shvartsman ◽  
A. Yu. Kuznetsov
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Scholarly Community ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Policies And Programs ◽  
The Uk ◽  
High Level ◽  
Access Policies

Introduction. The paper presents survey results on the awareness towards and practice of Open Access scholarly publishing among Russian academics.Materials and Methods. We employed methods of statistical analysis of survey results. Materials comprise results of data processing of Russian survey conducted in 2018 and published results of the latest international surveys. The survey comprised 1383 respondents from 182 organizations. We performed comparative studies of the responses from academics and research institutions as well as different research areas. The study compares results obtained in Russia with the recently published results of surveys conducted in the United Kingdom and Europe.Results. Our findings show that 95% of Russian respondents support open access, 94% agree to post their publications in open repositories and 75% have experience in open access publishing. We did not find any difference in the awareness and attitude towards open access among seven reference groups. Our analysis revealed the difference in the structure of open access publications of the authors from universities and research institutes. Discussion andConclusions. Results reveal a high level of awareness and support to open access and succeful practice in the open access publications in the Russian scholarly community. The results for Russia demonstrate close similarity with the results of the UK academics. The governmental open access policies and programs would foster the practical realization of the open access in Russia.

THE STATE OF OPEN ACCESS ADOPTION IN LEGAL SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION: AN ANALYSIS OF SELECTED OPEN ACCESS RESOURCES

Mousaion ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-100
Author(s):  
Solomon Bopape
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
Scholarly Literature ◽  
Open Access Resources ◽  
The Right

The study of law focuses, among other aspects, on important issues relating to equality, fairness and justice in as far as free access to information and knowledgeis concerned. The launching of the Open Access to Law Movement in 1992, the promulgation of the Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal Scholarshipin 2009, and the formation of national and regional Legal Information Institutes (LIIs) should serve as an indication of how well the legal world is committed to freely publishing and distributing legal information and knowledge through the Internet to legal practitioners, legal scholars and the public at large aroundthe world. In order to establish the amount of legal scholarly content which is accessible through open access publishing innovations and initiatives, this studyanalysed the contents of websites for selected open access resources on the Internet internationally and in South Africa. The results of the study showed that there has been a steady developing trend towards the adoption of open access for legal scholarly literature internationally, while in South Africa legal scholarly literature is under the control of commercial publishers. This should be an issue for the legal scholarship which, among its focus, is to impart knowledge about the right of access to information and knowledge.

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