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The Importance of cc:license Tagging for Hybrid Journals

The importance of cc:license tagging without comments In the past, hybrid journals (where some articles are Open Access (OA) and others are not) were often dismissed as a temporary entity, something which would fall to the wayside in favour of purely open access (gold OA) or subscription journals. However, no matter how OA is being…

Systematic Identification of Open Access Articles in Hybrid Journals Begins

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Systematic identification of OA articles from hybrid journals with 2 comments JournalTOCs is pleased to announce that the automated identification of Open Access (OA) articles from hybrid journals has started to work today This is a highly important development in the efforts being made towards enabling systematic and easy identification of Open Access articles for…

Alerting Open Access Accessibility with Bibliographic Metadata Standards

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without comments Alerting OA accessibility using available bibliographic metadata standards Forward thinking publishers have started to include in their Table of Contents (TOC) RSS feed metadata, elements that describe the copyright and access rights associated with an OA article. Being able to identify the accessibility of an article becomes even more important when…

Most Followed Open Access Journals Ranking

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How to Filter Journals Based on Open Access Licensing Conditions

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How to filter journals based on Open Access licensing conditions Yesterday I found this post by Tony Hirst where he reported that unfortunately JournalTOCs didn’t include metadata that identifies whether a journal is Open Access or not. In fact he pointed out that he couldn’t find a service that returns a simplistic “yes/no” response to…

Are Open Access Journals Reluctant to Offer TOC RSS Feeds?

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Are OA journals frightened of TOC RSS feeds? Today, Roddy MacLeod tells us that he has added 25 Open Access (OA) journals to JournalTOCs recently. These new journals will increase the number of OA journals in JournalTOCs. Although finding and uploading individual OA journals is not a sustainable model for us, the work of Roddy…