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Peter Suber is the editor of Open Access News, the web's most comprehensive site for open access news. Open Access News is essential reading for anybody wishing to keep up-to-date with the latest developments in open access.

Publishers' paid open access options, allow authors to deposit their articles immediately in open access repositories upon payment of a fee. The same publishers may also allow authors to deposit after an embargo period without payment of a fee. Where a publishers' standard policy does not allow an author to comply with their funding agency's mandate (see JULIET), paid open access options may enable an author to comply.

The Online Guide to Open Access Journals Publishing provides practical information and tools to support the efforts of scholars and other small teams producing independent Open Access journals. The guide has  been developed by Co-Action Publishing and Lund University Libraries Head Office with support from the National Library of Sweden and Nordbib.

Developing Open Access Electronic Journals: A Practical Guide is is to my knowledge the first comprehensive book on creating an open access (OA) journal. Thousands of OA journals have been developed over the last 15 years and are becoming an important means of disseminating research and scholarship. While creating a new OA journal need not be difficult, it takes a wealth of specialized knowledge that most people interested in creating such journals lack. The goal of the book is to provide the essential information needed and guide someone through the process of designing and operating a successful OA journal.

Opening up access to academic research will put more data and power in the hands of the people who pay for it

Developing a sound business model is a critical concern of publishers considering open-access distribution. Selecting the model appropriate to a particular journal will depend not only on the expense hurdle that must be cleared, but also on the publisher's mission objectives, size, business management resources, risk tolerance, tax status, and institutional or corporate affiliation. This Web site and accompanying guide provide an overview of income models currently being used to support the open-access distribution of peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific journals. These resources will be a useful tool both for publishers exploring new potential sources of income and for libraries weighing where to direct meager library funds.

Solo el 10% de los artículos científicos se publican en revistas de acceso gratuito (Open Access), pero el 90% de los científicos cree que el acceso gratuito es beneficioso para la ciencia. 

Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.

Open Journal Systems (OJS) es un sistema de administración y publicación de revistas y documentos periódicos (seriados) en Internet. Es una iniciativa del Public Knowledge Project, liberada bajo licencia GNU General Public License que busca facilitar el desarrollo de publicaciones de acceso abierto (Open Access).

University wants scientists to make their research open access and resign from publications that keep articles behind paywalls

Will the move to Open access, Open peer review and the Plos one "no selection bias policy" lead to the downfall of the impact factor of journals? Will we finally move on to use the citation index of actual papers as the golden standard for academic performance?

Es interesante para tener en cuenta como dato estadístico y, además, de alguna manera demuestra que la adopción de políticas de propiedad intelectual más abiertas es un movimiento más que una moda pasajera. Que no sólo el público, sino que cada vez más investigadores, científicos y editores de revistas científicas están dando el paso a garantizar condiciones abiertas de acceso al conocimiento científico.

¿Un excesivo celo en la Propiedad Intelectual puede convertirse en una barrera para el desarrollo de la ciencia y de la libre circulación de ideas? Con la bibliotecóloga y especialista en gestión del conocimiento, Alejandra Rojas, abordamos ese cuestionamiento a través del movimiento Open Access (Acceso Abierto) y la revisión del nuevo proyecto de ONG Derechos Digitales, "Revistas Abiertas", una inédita plataforma en español que brinda todas las herramientas legales y técnicas para que los interesados en publicar una revista académica puedan optar por el libre acceso al conocimiento.

University of Connecticut resources about apen access

PEER REVIEW JOURNAL PUBLISHING SERVICES We are an established company in the business of online and print peer review journal publication services. We have both open access or restricted access systems and the publishing cost is substatially minimal compared with other established companies. Our publishing model includes custom design of the front end graphics and architecture with unlimited hosting for your articles and files; alongwith a round the clock technical support system ready to get you started and get going.

Abstract The detection of plagiarism in scholarly articles is a complex process. It requires not just quantitative analysis with the similarity recording by anti-plagiarism software but also assessment of the readers' opinion, pointing to the theft of ideas, methodologies, and graphics. In this article we describe a blatant case of plagiarism by Chinese authors, who copied a Russian article from a non-indexed and not widely visible Russian journal, and published their own report in English in an open-access journal indexed by Scopus and Web of Science and archived in PubMed Central. The details of copying in the translated English article were presented by the Russian author to the chief editor of the index journal, consultants from Scopus, anti-plagiarism experts, and the administrator of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). The correspondents from Scopus and COPE pointed to the decisive role of the editors' of the English journal who may consider further actions if plagiarism is confirmed. After all, the chief editor of the English journal retracted the article on grounds of plagiarism and published a retraction note, although no details of the complexity of the case were reported. The case points to the need for combining anti-plagiarism efforts and actively seeking opinion of non-native English-speaking authors and readers who may spot intellectual theft which is not always detected by software.

* This is a list of business models and revenue sources for OA journals. * Some revenue sources are supplementary and not sufficient. We aim to include all the revenue sources actually used by OA journals, even if they are small parts of larger business models. * For the time being, the major categories are in alphabetical order, which does not reflect their relative prevalence. * There are many models, details, and examples in Raym Crow's October 2009 study for SPARC, Income Models for Supporting Open Access. Volunteers could help the cause by using the study to enhance this page.