Conveners
Session II: To open or not to open? Publishing in Open Access
- Anna Wałek (ACK Cyfronet AGH)
Description
Session in English
We want to influence positive change, whether it's the future of research assessment, open access or finding new ways to make research more accessible and discoverable. Our aim is to contribute to the development of new best practices to help members of the community learn from each other and create positive change.
This research explores the adoption of open access preprints among Polish researchers, specifically those affiliated with Jagiellonian University. Employing web mining techniques, preprints published on osf.io, arXiv, and ResearchGate were systematically analyzed. The primary objective was to assess the extent to which Polish scholars embrace preprints over traditional postprints in...
This paper discusses the tailored Knowledge Base (KB) of policies and contextual materials regarding Open Access to academic books in the European Research Area (https://knowledgebase.oabooks-toolkit.org) set on DSpace environment during the PALOMERA (Policy Alignment of Open Access Monographs in the European Research Area) project, funded by Horizon Europe. Academic books are defined here as...
Publishing scientific outputs in open access became equally important for all stakeholders engaged in a research cycle. But the key to success is when these publications are easily findable, discoverable, and visible. Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) is a community-driven discovery service for open access books. DOAB provides a searchable index to scholarly, peer-reviewed books and helps...
