Abdullah Shams Bin Tariq

Are you aware of PKP's OJS (Public Knowledge Project's Open Journal System)? It has been / is being used by 10,000+ journal titles. It has also been used by many...

Take a look ar say BanglaJOL. It is just the basic OJS software. Very little has been done to it except a very small amount of design to give it...

Moreover PKP now has Open Conference, Open Monograph and Open Harvester.

why North America only? shouldn't this be global?

Thanks Koen @KoenVermeir for opening this here and thanks Naomi @npscience for your feedback. You are quite correct. In fact when the Working Group was formed at the Global Young...

Good to see continued / renewed interested in GARS. This is very rewarding! Just an anecdotal point - GARS (originally as RSDC) was proposed in Berlin in 2011 at the...

I am with you! This is one of the difficult gaps to close. We have had (though very few) excellent PhDs and (somewhat more) researchers being highly productive with truly...

very important indeed. arxiv is such a success - but outside communities like high energy physics, it can be hard to get credit

by moving away from the "author-pays" model of OA

in weaker institutions or countries with weaker academic standards "predatory" publishers are thriving and in some places even the institutional leadership is prey. Many, in such situations, once they themselves...