Das Projekt NOA – Nachnutzung von Open-Access-Abbildungen sammelt Abbildungen aus wissenschaftlichen Artikeln und macht sie über eine Suchmaschine zugänglich. Es handelt sich um Bilder aus Artikeln, die unter einer Open-Access-Lizenz veröffentlicht sind, denn nur bei solchen Artikeln darf der Inhalt frei nachgenutzt werden.
Our aim is to develop an open source standardized online platform, the Open Encyclopedia System, for building and maintaining online encyclopedias in the fields of humanities and social sciences that provide readers worldwide free and unrestricted online access to scientific content (Open Access).
The name Scilit uses components of the words “scientific” and “literature”. This database of scholarly works is developed and maintained by the open access publisher MDPI.
Scilit is a comprehensive, free database for scientists using a new method to collate data and indexing scientific material. Our crawlers extract the latest data from CrossRef and PubMed on a daily basis. This means that newly published articles are added to Scilit immediately.
An API service using a number of different data sources to find open versions of articles (or in many cases, to determine that the articles are open already):
A collection of studies that have investigated the potential Open Access citation advantage. The majority, to date, have concluded that there is a significant citation advantage for Open Access articles. Much of the data here is sourced from The Open Access Citation Advantage Service, SPARC Europe (accessed August 2017)
Das Open Science Office der Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig (UBL) unterstützt Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler auch bei Publikationen in OA-Zeitschriften. Dabei prüft es seit vier Jahren die Qualität wissenschaftlicher Zeitschriften. Diese Arbeit wird umso wichtiger, als dass in der Wissenschaftscommunity zunehmend Stimmen ob der mangelnden Seriosität und Qualität vermeintlich wissenschaftlicher Zeitschriften kursieren. In folgendem Beitrag erläutern die Kolleginnen und Kollegen vom Open Science Office anhand von Beispielen, woran man solche „betrügerischen“ Zeitschriften erkennen kann und geben wichtige Hinweise für die Einschätzung deren Qualität.
Open access for the reader doesn’t guarantee cheaper access fees for the academy. It’s time for a 21st century upending of the exorbitantly expensive corporate journal publishing system in order to give academics freedom to choose where to publish their articles and how much it should cost. Today, five corporate publishers control a majority market share of academic journals. Consequently, they control production, distribution, impact measures, and, most importantly, pricing. For years, the academic community has been trying to work with publishers to lower skyrocketing journal costs. However, the centralization of journals into fewer hands has created substantial power differentials between academic institutions and corporate publishers in journal price negotiations. Given the opposing incentives of academic institutions and corporate publishers – academia seeks to make research accessible while publishers seek profit – attempting to cut costs has proven a virtual zero-sum game.