Research funders in Europe want to ensure that research output they sponsor are openly accessible. They implement Plan S and design the Rights Retention Strategy. What does that mean for researchers in Hong Kong?

After prolonged negotiations with Cambridge University Press, the Library will enter into a Read and Publish agreement with them effective January 2021. How is it different from the previous licenses?

A survey was conducted to find out researchers’ publishing habits, the factors they consider when deciding which journal to publish their work, and their views on the author pay-to-publish model.

Archiving academic papers in an institutional or subject repository is a major way to make your works openly accessible. In this increasingly open research environment, it is important for academic authors to know how to do self-archiving properly.

Academic publishing companies try to plug “content leakage” caused by article sharing websites like Sci-Hub and ResearchGate. Is plugging a good solution when there is a strong need for scholarly papers behind paywalls?

CORD-19 is a free dataset with over 45,000 scholarly articles about COVID-19 and related coronavirus to support researchers in fighting against the pandemic.

About 20% of HKUST journal articles are open access. Do these papers get more citations? 

HKUST authors publish over 2,000 journal papers every year, how many of them are openly accessible? The Library analyzed our institutional publishing profile, the study will help us when we negotiate new contracts with publishers.

Academic publishing has long been a low investment high profit business. How can academic publishers maintain such a successful business model?

At the beginning of 2020, a massive open access (OA) contract was finalized between 700 research institutions in Germany and the major academic publisher Springer Nature. How does this agreement affect researchers in Hong Kong?