open access Archives — Researcher Connect

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…

Transforming Open Access: Report of the 16th Berlin Open Access Conference

— by Florence Ng The Conference From 6-7 June 2023, representatives of research communities from 38 nations and six continents gathered at the 16th Berlin Open Access Conference (B16) hosted by the Max Planck Society. The purpose of the conference was to gather global actors in discussion of viable strategies to transform scholarly publishing from…

An Impactful Initiative: A Summary of HKU Libraries Open Access Author Fund in 2022/23

— by Fanny Liu The HKU Libraries Open Access Author Fund, a key initiative of the Libraries to support open access by HKU researchers, has been run for the first financial year. Join us in celebrating success with a few outcome snapshots. Applications In the financial year 2022/23, the Fund supported 84 journal articles authored…

A Step Forward Towards Open Access: The RGC Publication Gateway

— by Florence Ng The concept of Open Access (OA) in scholarly research community seeks collaborative efforts from different stakeholders to grant free and open online access permanently to academic information, such as journal article publication and research data, etc. As a major academic research funder in Hong Kong, the Research Grants Council (RGC) revealed…