Open Access

We support the growth and long term sustainability of Open Access through sharing knowledge and addressing emerging issues

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The Open Access Expert Group

Find out about the group and its participants

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Knowledge Exchange has a long history of promoting Open Access and have been working in this area for many years. We aim to share knowledge, address emerging issues, and focus on joint development within the area of Open Access publishing. Our most recent published work addresses; Publishing Reproducible Research Outputs and an initial landscape study of small journal publishers.

Our Open Access Expert Group work to identify and scope new topics for Knowledge Exchange to explore and are currently working on the following new topics; Small Publishers and the Transition to Open Access and Alternative Publishing Platforms.

You can find out more about the Open Access Expert Group via the link at the side of this page, and more about our Open Access activities and reports, below.

Studies, Workshops and Events

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Alternative Publishing Platforms
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Alternative Publishing Platforms

So many new platforms emerge, we'll explore what they do and how they can help.

Small Publishers and the Transition to Open Access
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Small Publishers and the Transition to Open Access

Small journals and small publishers play a crucial role in scholarly communication. In this work, we aim to identify the challenges that they may face in successfully making the transition to open access.

Publishing Reproducible Research Output
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Publishing Reproducible Research Output

We investigated the need to make research outputs more reproducible and how infrastructures can support them

Open Access Monitoring
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Open Access Monitoring

Our work on the monitoring of open access across the Knowledge Exchange partner countries

Preprints – Science in real time
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Preprints – Science in real time

Preprints have become more widespread in a number of disciplines over the last few years. We investigated this phenomenon in order to explore the current place of preprints in the scholarly communication process

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Presentations, reports and downloads

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A collaboration between

  • dfg
  • csc-it center for science
  • jisc
  • cnrs
  • surf
  • deff