This post outlines an open approach to documenting community-led metadata enrichment projects, providing examples from COMET’s pilot projects and template …

Since 2018, Unpaywall and then OpenAlex have described the open access status of a work with a colour: gold, green, hybrid, bronze, or closed. The labels were a pragmatic answer to a practical questio...

A term without a settled definition The term “preprint” is widely used in scholarly communication, but it does not have an agreed-upon definition across disciplines, platforms, or professional role…

The open access (OA) color classification system used by Unpaywall (i.e., Gold, Green, Hybrid, Bronze, and closed) was introduced in 2018 and has since become widely used across the ecosystem, includi...

This study presents estimates of the global expenditure on article processing charges (APCs) paid to 14 publishers for open access (OA) between 2019 and 2025. APCs are charged for publishing in fully ...

iStock A lawsuit filed under the U.S. False Claims Act accuses four major publishers of perpetrating a decade-long scheme to defraud the government by charging exorbitant article processing charges…

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The Public Knowledge Project (PKP), a Core Research Facility of Simon Fraser University (SFU), invites applications for the position of PKP Associate Director in charge of the Publishing Services port...