Open Research Library

The Open Research Library includes a growing amount of Open Access books and other content on one platform for user-friendly, seamless discovery and navigation.

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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 https://t.co/y59BGzJRLg

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Long-term, collaborative, sustainable support for digital #OpenAccess infrastructures represents an important aspect of Open Science https://t.co/dBHEZNTMLu

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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 https://t.co/cpWoWtOFLG

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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 https://t.co/Ucc0aGxjTh

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Publishing in #OpenAccess inherently contributes to scholarly integrity, since it introduces transparency into publication procedures https://t.co/xn3MaqIFT5

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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 https://t.co/K6XB4pmEm3

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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 https://t.co/zbC2Vlfxzh

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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 https://t.co/Gd28z320hN

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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 https://t.co/a6Dv4PdYKn

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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 https://t.co/SDnST6n2IA

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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 https://t.co/WmK5kL8ImU

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International collaborations and library funding are critical for transitioning specialized book collections into #OpenAccess as a public good, while significantly augmenting their visibility and usage https://t.co/Ty3CkZ2EDE

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Country-level #OpenScience policies can assist early-career researchers and international collaborations, while being dependent on infrastructure funding and budget allocation https://t.co/cigIwK4FPw

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Whereas transitioning scholarly journals to #OpenAccess can be expected to contribute to output quality, academic transparency, and researcher inclusion, the removal of author-facing cost barriers also demands sustainable publishing models https://t.co/9KkXz0E7xj

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For scholarly journals, transitioning to #OpenAccess involves not only the removal of barriers to scholarly knowledge, but also the need to sustainably maintain publication standards https://t.co/GVDm0LScuG

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Diamond #OpenAccess models contribute to the status of scholarly knowledge as a public good https://t.co/TDGSY2X1n6

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#OpenScience and Open Data represent key principles for ensuring unrestricted public access to scientific research, enhancing validation, reproducibility, and interdisciplinary collaboration, as exemplified by the free-to-access platforms, such as Zenodo https://t.co/bp1AfEEEW4

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As recent findings indicate, for scholars and institutions from emerging economies, e.g., those in the MENA region, publishing their output in #OpenAccess is likely to significantly contribute to citation visibility and international rankings respectively https://t.co/rotHiuIazh

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Though the positive impact of #OpenScience practices on innovation, collaboration and transparency is broadly recognized, their implementation continues to face challenges, as their costs and benefits can be context dependent https://t.co/1t7FpBipQA

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Following the principles of #OpenScience, such as the preregistration of research designs, hypotheses, methods and data collection protocols, is likely to contribute to the reproducibility of scholarly studies https://t.co/JLtEolGmx9