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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…

Unmasking and Combating Publishing Malpractices 1: Paper Mills

— by Fanny Liu Academics are faced with a pressure to consistently and frequently publish research to sustain or advance their careers, which incentivizes quantity over quality. This “publish-or-perish” mentality has brought potential negative impacts to scholarly research, for example unethical publishing behaviour compromising scientific integrity. Misconduct in science is “fabrication, falsification, or plagiarism in…

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…

State of Open Data 2023: Nuanced approach, readily available support, and AI awareness

— by Chloe Ng Conducted by Digital Science, Figshare and Springer Nature, the State of Open Data 2023 survey was carried out in June 2023, collecting a total of 6091 valid responses from researchers who had published or submitted a manuscript to a journal within the last 5 years worldwide. Respondents represented diverse geographical regions,…

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…

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…