Knowledge Unlatched
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Our vision is a sustainable market where scholarly content is freely accessible to every reader around the world.
Berlin, Germany
Joined May 2012
📚 Calling All Librarians: Help Shape KU’s Collections by joining our growing Selection Committee. If you’re interested in joining the KU Selection Committee, 📩 email us at info@knowledgeunlatched.org with the subject line "KU Selection Committee". #DiamondOA #KnowledgeUnlatched
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We are inviting librarians everywhere to take part in KU's Content Survey 2025. It takes about three minutes to answer a few questions. Librarians' input is vital to ensuring that Open Access collections remain relevant and forward-thinking. #DiamondOA
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Dear librarians, Thank you for participating in this survey. Knowledge Unlatched is committed to building Diamond Open Access collections that align with the needs of libraries and their communities....
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Final week to pledge for KU’s #OpenAccess initiatives! Many thanks to all the #libraries, institutions worldwide who have pledged for one or more of KU’s collections, partner offerings this year. The 2024 pledging round will end this Friday, December 13th
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A big thank you to our KU Selection Committee 2024! We’d like to express our gratitude to the 200+ #librarians worldwide who gave their time, to curate our flagship collection, KU Select Books. For a second year, the collection was aligned with UN’s #SDGs
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Great news, #libraries, if you haven't already done so, there’s still time to pledge your support for #OpenAccess this year! @KUnlatched has extended its pledging deadline to Friday, December 13, 2024.
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#OpenAccess represents an important sector of scholarly publishing not only because of the continued growth in scientific output, but also since it removes paywall barriers to academic content
economist.com
Concerns about some of their business models are building
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Many thanks to all the libraries that have already pledged this year to help make KU Select SDG Books, KU Focus Collections, our partner initiatives available #OpenAccess. There’s still time to add your support, the deadline is December 6, 2024. #OABooks
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Long-term, collaborative, sustainable support for digital #OpenAccess infrastructures represents an important aspect of Open Science
journals.sagepub.com
This article expands on the Miles Conrad Award lecture delivered at the NISO Plus 2024 conference. Drawing from over three decades in scholarly publishing, incl...
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The author-facing fees that researchers face when publishing in #OpenAccess journals continue to be a significant barrier toward the removal of paywall barriers to scholarly output for both scientific communities and professional stakeholders worldwide
journals.lww.com
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We are thrilled to have been at the Charleston Conference this year! We enjoyed the opportunity to attend sessions, discussions about AI, collaboration, scholarly communications. It was great meeting with so many librarians and colleagues. See you next year #OpenAccess #chsconf24
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Whereas preprints represent a significant aspect of #OpenAccess publishing, especially for scholarly articles, these cannot necessarily supplant published versions, due to peer review procedures the latter entail
blogs.lse.ac.uk
Natascha Chtena, Juan Pablo Alperin & Alice Fleerackers argue the benefits of preprints risk being undermined by incorporation into traditional publishing workflows.
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Publishing in #OpenAccess inherently contributes to scholarly integrity, since it introduces transparency into publication procedures
nature.com
Nature - Initially concerned about receiving the kind of backlash that Jeffrey Beall got for his list of predatory publishers, a computer scientist has now decided to put his name on his work.
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As sustainable development goals (#SDGs) are increasingly recognized as relevant to scholarly research, funding priorities, publishing activities across different disciplines, #OpenAccess models also need to accommodate the needs of Global South scholars
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
Insights from a recent study looking at how the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are influencing research, including recommendations for publishers' next steps.
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RT @berghahnbooks: Thank you to all of our current #Migration and Development Studies collection participants who helped us make 28 titles….
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As, on one hand, #OpenAccess platforms remove cost barriers to scholarly content, these also ought to comply with accessibility guidelines, on the other hand, to ensure the inclusivity of Open Science initiatives
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
Digital accessibility to the scholarly communications process is core to providing equitable access to the literature
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Librarians, help support free access to important STEM content. Alongside KU Select SDG Books, Focus Collections, and various HSS-offerings this year, @KUnlatched also offers three different STEM book collections for libraries to support #OpenAccess.
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Transitioning to #OpenScience can not infrequently also require a change in publishing practices and reward structures on the level of both individual researchers and academic institutions respectively
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#OpenScience also comprizes the monitoring of its performance indicators, such as in terms of scholarly output in Open Access and the institution-level adoption of its practices
blog.mdpi.com
Here, we will outline open science monitoring, how monitors work, examples of them, and why it is important.
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Whereas transitions to #OpenAccess involve multiple stakeholders, such as publishers and libraries, these also comprise wider-scale Open Science-related aims for research data and code and associated, innovative business models
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While #OpenScience has made significant progress in recent years, barriers to the implementation of its guidelines continues to exist, such as with regard to empirical data
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