by Caroline Winter | 15 September 2023 | French, Observations, Observations and Responses
Le 15 mars 2022, l’Initiative de Budapest pour l’accès ouvert (BOAI) a célébré son 20e anniversaire en publiant quatre nouvelles recommandations de haut niveau – ainsi que des sous-recommandations détaillées et d’autres développements – mettant l’accent sur le libre accès dirigé par les communautés et l’équité mondiale, et en relevant les principaux défis de la prochaine décennie (BOAI 2022).
by Caroline Winter | 15 September 2023 | English, Observations, Observations and Responses
On March 15, 2022, the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) celebrated its 20th anniversary by releasing four new high-level recommendations—along with detailed sub-recommendations and further elaborations—focusing on community-led open access (OA) and global equity, and addressing key challenges for the coming decade (BOAI 2022).
by Talya Jesperson | 17 May 2023 | Community News, French, Observations and Responses
Au cours de la dernière décennie, le libre accès a gagné le soutien des chercheurs et des décideurs politiques, avec un plaidoyer de plus en plus fort en faveur de l’accès gratuit en ligne aux travaux universitaires. Si l’intégration de politiques de libre accès au Canada reflète l’évolution rapide du paysage de l’édition, avec l’essor de la numérisation et le besoin pressant d’élargir l’accès, les obstacles à la généralisation du libre accès sont nombreux et complexes.
by Talya Jesperson | 17 May 2023 | Community News, English, Observations and Responses
Over the last decade, Open Access (OA) has gained support among researchers and policymakers, with increasingly vocal advocacy for free online access to scholarly work. While incorporating Open Access policies in Canada reflects a rapidly changing publishing landscape, with the rise of digitalization and the pressing need to broaden access, the barriers to making Open Access a widespread reality are many and complex.
by Caroline Winter | 17 March 2023 | English, Observations, Observations and Responses
For the past decade or more, a trend has been observed in the scholarly communications ecosystem toward market consolidation, with fewer companies owning increasing shares of the market. A study by Data Think estimated that, in 2021, very large publishers (those with more than 500 journals) accounted for only 0.06% of the publishers in their study but published nearly half—47%—of all articles (Pollock 2022). This increasing market consolidation has raised concerns in the open scholarship community and in the broader academic community.