Open Café

User icon Toby Green
2 February 2024
38 items

This list records all the documents, reports, and websites mentioned in the Open Café Listserv. Open Café, launched by Rick Anderson in February 2024, is dedicated to the free, open, constructive, and civil discussion of issues related to open scholarship – including open access, open science, open data, and adjacent topics. Open Café is a place for people across the full spectrum of viewpoints and perspectives to ask questions, offer opinions, and share information in an environment of mutual respect and openmindedness. You can sign up to Open Café by sending an email message to opencafe-l-subscribe-request@listserv.byu.edu


13 April 2021

For many decades, the hyperinflation of subscription prices for scholarly journals have concerned scholarly institutions. After years of fruitless efforts to solve this “serials crisis”, open access has been proposed …


15 December 2008

This dissertation addresses a specific aspect of the broad area of communication systems used among researchers. This research has undertaken to establish a broader view of the communication practices of …


1 July 2021

For decades, the supra-inflation increase of subscription prices for scholarly journals has concerned scholarly institutions. After years of fruitless efforts to solve this “serials crisis”, open access has been proposed …


PKP: Public Knoweldge Project · 9 November 2021

This dataset contains a summary of information about known public installations of Open Journal Systems, Open Monograph Press, and Open Preprint Systems.


EC: European Commission · 27 November 2023

This spreadsheet model accompanies the report 'Scenario Modelling for Open Research Europe' and has been prepared for the European Commission's Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG R&I) by Rob Johnson …


15 November 2022

In our digital world, data is power. Information hoarding businesses reign supreme, using intimidation, aggression, and force to maintain influence and control. Sarah Lamdan brings us into the unregulated underworld …


Scholarly Communications Lab · 4 May 2022

The review, promotion, and tenure (RPT) process is central to academic life and workplace advancement. It influences where faculty direct their attention, research, and publications. By unveiling the RPT process, …


Plos One · 10 June 2015

The consolidation of the scientific publishing industry has been the topic of much debate within and outside the scientific community, especially in relation to major publishers’ high profit margins. However, …


SSP: Society for Scholarly Publishing · 30 October 2023

We all know the journals market has rapidly consolidated over recent years. But where's the data? I set out to find some numbers to put behind the common sense.


Cabell's The Source · 20 April 2020

What is the black market in predatory publishing worth each year? No satisfactory estimate has yet been produced, so Simon Linacre has decided to grab the back of an envelope …