Category: Nelson Memo

Open access ‘at any cost’ cannot support scholarly publishing communities

Kaitlin Thaney argues the current momentum building for “no pays” academic publishing models and establishing the “reasonable costs” of publication, present opportunities to rebalance the inequities, costs, and power dynamics initially bred by the push…

Dryad in the community: Responding to the Nelson Memo: repository re-curation for open science

Available to watch now: “Responding to the Nelson Memo: repository re-curation for open science”. This talk introduces the concept of re-curation with examples from three different types of repositories and research organisations; generalist, instituti…

The APC question mark hovering over the OSTP announcement

The recent announcement by the U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) set out a requirement for all federally funded research to be made immediately publicly accessible and in so doing has significantly accelerated a transition to Open Acc…