IReL Reaches Milestone of 10,000 Open Access Publications – IReL IReL is a consortium of Irish research libraries, providing access to licensed e-resources, OA publishing agreements, and open science infrastructure.

IReL has reached a major milestone in its commitment to #OpenResearch and publishing transparency in enabling over 10,000 Irish research articles to be published #OpenAccess, and in contributing data on them to #OpenAPC:
irel.ie/irel-reaches... #OA

Durchschnittliche BPCs in der OA-Monographienförderung der Universität Leipzig lt. OpenAPC

Und so sehen aktuell die durchschnittlichen #BPC in der #OpenAccess-Monografienförderung bei uns an der @ubleipzig aus.
Die Datenaufbereitung durch #OpenAPC könnte in der Tat nützlich für die Beratung sein, insb. bei Nachwuchswissenschftler*innen, für die die […]

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Watching with interest:

"While the #OpenAPC initiative has created an internationally recognized approach to the disclosure of funds in the area of publication fees #APCs], there is still no such initiative for #subscription costs…Against this background, the #DFG project #Transform2Open […]

Stated at the #ACS webinar for UK #HEIs earlier this week: "Counterintuitively, the largest share of our Open Access publishing income these days *is not* coming from
Europe, but from Africa".

We *really* need to see the data 👇

#OpenAPC

If one were granted just one wish on the #OAW2024 topic of "community over commercialisation" it would be:

"please have institutions in all those grey areas join #OpenAPC"

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