‘Diamond open access’ means research is free to read, free to publish. It’s a public good – but it relies on volunteer labour.
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When is it acceptable to use AI in academic publishing?
Once errors creep into the AI knowledge base, they can be very hard to get out.
ChatGPT and other AI writing tools can make researchers more productive – but quality control is essential.
Open access to COVID-19 research accelerated the development of solutions. The urgency of climate change demands the same approach, but more than half of Australian research is still behind paywalls.
The idea is publicly funded Australian research should be free for the public to read when published. But if it means taking money from universities struggling for research funding, that poses risks.
In many other countries, a majority of research publications are now open access, but the system of paying for access still dominates academic publishing in Australia.
The UC libraries let their Elsevier journal subscriptions lapse and now the publisher has cut their online access. It’s a painful milestone in the fight UC hopes may transform how journals get paid.
In South Africa, open access publishing should be mandatory and publicly funded data generated by universities, should be freely available.
Digital publishing hasn’t resulted in the free and open access to information many envisioned. Universities are increasingly fed up with a system they see as charging them for their own scholars’ labor.
It’s important to shift educational discourse in and around Africa in a more equitable, representative direction.
Printers have been overwhelmed with orders for the first edition of the text to be published in Germany since 1945.
South Africans’ access to important knowledge and research is incredibly limited. In this time of Open Access, why is this the case – and will it ever change?
Replacing authors on scientific papers with projects could be one way to tackle the increasing numbers of contributors.
It’s important to reconnect management researchers with practitioners so their scholarly work is shared beyond academia.
The open-access movement, which aims to provide researchers and the public with free access to academic work, has been growing. But most academic research remains behind expensive paywalls, which decreases…
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University Librarian and Vice Provost for Digital Scholarship, University of California, Davis
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Dean of Research, Humanities, Curtin University
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Senior Lecturer in Literature, Technology and Publishing, Birkbeck, University of London
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Associate Professor, Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town
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Lecturer in Library Science, City St George's, University of London
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Professor of Modern History, University of Nottingham
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Emeritus Professor of Medical Biochemistry, University of Cape Town
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Senior Lecturer, School of Law and Justice, University of Newcastle
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Director, Centre for Culture and Technology & Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative, Curtin University
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Professor of Research Communications, Curtin University
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Associate Professor, School of Law, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Zoology and Senior Research Fellow, Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria
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Professor of Law, University of Sydney
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Lecturer in Bioethics, Monash University; The University of Melbourne