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UCL launches UK's first fully Open Access university press

UCL is pleased to announce the launch of UCL Press, the University's in house publishing arm. UCL Press will be the first fully Open Access university press in the UK with all books, journals and monographs freely available online, creating a diverse and accessible global knowledge resource.
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New research adds impetus to call for boycott of academic journals over 'rip-off' prices

Some of the biggest academic publishers are accused in a new study of using tax avoidance strategies to boost profits while they engage in football transfer style practices to stifle competition.
In a paper on the findings, the authors from the University of Leicester School of Management claim that publication of academic papers - based largely on state funded research - can be so lucrative that publishing houses are able to enjoy net profit margins as high as 53 per cent. That compares with 6.9 per cent for electricity utilities, 5.2 per cent for food suppliers, and 2.5 per cent for newspapers.
The returns are further enhanced when publishers operating in the UK move their offices to tax havens overseas - a practice that raises ethical questions in times of austerity, the paper argues. Its authors are calling for the publishers of academic journals to be included in the review of tax havens ordered by Danny Alexander, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury. He has instructed civil servants to find a way to stop offshore companies receiving public subsidies or contracts.
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Open access will save journals at the expense of science

The government is to develop plans to make publicly funded research results freely available to all.
Currently, scientists and members of the public have to pay the leading scientific journals to see research that has already been paid for from the public purse.
Under new proposals the government will pay publishers a fee each time a paper is published.
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 UK to make academic research available free on the net

The UK plans to give the public access to academic research via the internet free of charge.
The government said that Wikipedia's co-founder Jimmy Wales had agreed to advise it on how to ensure the move would promote "collaboration and engagement".
The decision will have major implications for the publishing industry.
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Freely accessed papers are simply points in a constellation of scientific communication with the public, says Alice Bell

For me, the main problem is that open access does not equal open science, and that is something we should be talking about more.
I should make it clear that I am all for open access, but I also worry that it is a distraction from the larger challenge of developing meaningful public engagement with research.
Yes, we can make science free at the point of access - and I really want us to - but that's only a small part of a much more complex picture.
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 Trust pushes for open access to research

One of the world's largest research charities, the Wellcome Trust, is to support efforts by scientists to make their work freely available for all.
The Trust is to establish a free, online publication to compete with established academic journals.
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I have been dismayed (at the lack of commitment to Open Access by mainstream (primarily toll-access) publishers and have described this as a systemic failure of the industry. Here is another unacceptable lack of clarity and commitment from an Open Access journal from a major publisher. I had been investigating OUPs site for another reason  and since I had published with them thought I would have a look at papers I had written.
This is what I found....
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There are some lively exchanges going on at Ben Goldacre’s Bad Science blog at the moment. Ben writes a column in the UK newspaper The Guardian every Saturday exposing quackery, hypocrisy and inaccuracy in the presentation of science to the wider public. This week his topic is target is closed access journals.

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Many open access publishers such as PLoS, BioMed Central and Hindawi charge a publication fee to authors to recover the costs associated with publishing their journals. And more and more traditional publishers are now offering authors the option of open access upon payment of a publication fee. Although many open access journals also offer a fee waiver for authors without access to sufficient funds, the long-term prospects for the publication fee model for open access would be greatly improved if the vast majority of researchers had access to funds to cover publication fees. To that end, the UK Research Information Network (RIN) published a helpful Briefing Note in December, outlining how universities and research institutions in the UK can work with funding agencies to provide the necessary funds to authors.

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