Category Archives: Scholarly publishing

Open Article Gauge

Posted on February 7, 2014 by David Shotton

Further to the previous post describing various types of open and closed access, I would like to bring people’s attention to a very useful service developed by Cottage Labs a year or so ago that automatically reports the degree of … Continue reading →

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Describing open access

Posted on January 31, 2014 by David Shotton

To permit computer-readable descriptions to be made of the various types of open access publication discussed in the previous blog post, I have expanded PSO, the Publication Status Ontology, whose use is described in an earlier blog post here, by … Continue reading →

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Open access journals – wheat, chaff and hopeful monsters

Posted on January 24, 2014 by David Shotton

The Fifth Annual Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing, organized by OASPA, the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association [1], was held in Riga, the capital of Latvia, on 18th-20th September 2013.  I was invited to attend to discuss the Open … Continue reading →

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