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Mega Journals 1: Inception and Ideal

— by Fanny Liu Introduction Since the establishment of PLOS ONE in 2006, a number of mega journals emerged, such as BMJ Open, IEEE Access, PeerJ, Scientific Reports, and more. While mega journals have secured a niche in scholarly publishing, there are also concerns and controversies. Characteristics Mega journals have some major characteristics (Björk, 2021;…

Opening the Gates: HKU Authors’ Odyssey in Open Access Publishing

— by Fanny Liu Introduction Similar to last year, this year we present an overview of open access publications by authors from the University of Hong Kong (HKU). Data Source Data were extracted from InCites on 11 February 2025. Publications included documents indexed in InCites Dataset (with ESCI) and with organization name “University of Hong…

Access, Author Rights, and Agreements 2: HKU Author’s Choice of Creative Commons Licenses

— by Fanny Liu Introduction In the previous post (Access, Author Rights, and Agreements 1: Which Creative Commons License Works the Best for an Author?), we discussed the different Creative Commons licenses and publishers’ licensing agreements. In this post, we will focus on the choices made by HKU (the University of Hong Kong) researchers. Choice…

Access, Author Rights, and Agreements 1: Which Creative Commons License Works the Best for an Author?

— by Chloe Ng As illustrated in the previous blog post (Open Access in Progress: An Overview of Participation of HKU Authors in Open Access Publishing), more and more HKU authors are publishing their research outputs open access. When an author submits manuscripts to journal publishers, one of the important decisions to make is selecting…

The Evolving Landscape of Open Science: Where are we now?

— by Florence Ng In an age where information flows more freely than ever, the concept of Open Science has emerged as a transformation of scientific research over the past several decades. Open Science is a movement aimed at making the scientific research process and activities, including but not limited to protocols, data, codes and…

Open Access in Progress: An Overview of Participation of HKU Authors in Open Access Publishing

— by Fanny Liu Open access, a key element of open science, has become an emerging trend in recent years. Noted that open science practices, which foster openness, transparency, and inclusiveness, are already in place worldwide, the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science (2021) called for promotion of a common understanding of open science, associated benefits…

Celebrate the Spectacular Success of Open Access Week 2023 at HKU

— by Fanny Liu We are overjoyed to share the tremendous success of Open Access Week 2023 at HKU Libraries. Please join us in celebrating this remarkable achievement. It is still not too late to revisit the webinars and join a quiz to test your knowledge afterwards! Scroll down for highlights of the event. Open…

Celebrate the Open Access Week 2023 with HKU Libraries

— by Florence Ng The International Open Access Week is organized by SPARC in partnership with the Open Access Week Advisory Committee every year, aiming to provide an opportunity for the academic and research community to learn what the potential benefits of Open Access (OA) are, to share what they have learned or their own…

Publish and Share Your Research: Suggestions from Editors and Librarians Seminar Series

— by Fanny Liu The Libraries is co-organizing a series of seminars with CITE (Centre for Information Technology in Education, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong) to provide researchers with useful advice on publishing your research. Eight seminars on various topics by journal editors and librarians will be held in this academic year.…

Breaking Down Barriers: Transformative Agreements Bringing Open Access to Research

— by Fanny Liu Transformative agreement A transformative agreement is a type of open access publishing agreement that seeks to transform the traditional subscription-based model of scholarly publishing into a more sustainable and equitable system. This new model includes two main components: “Read” and “Publish”. “Read” refers to the subscription fees to access journal articles…