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Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Abdelghani Maddi, Esther Lardreau, David Sapinho
Summary: The study found that there are significant differences in open access policies among European countries, depending on when they take measures. At the regional level, there is not much variability in open access indicators within the same country.
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Bernd Pulverer
Summary: Starting from 2024, The EMBO Journal and EMBO Reports will join EMBO Molecular Medicine, Molecular Systems Biology, and Life Science Alliance as Open Access journals, taking another step towards the goal of an integrated Open Science approach for disseminating highly selected and curated science.
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Energy & Fuels
Sebastian Lange, Peter Sokolowski, Xinghuo Yu
Summary: This paper proposes a new auction model for electricity markets that combines Vickrey auctions and revealed bidding to address supply allocation issues. The new model uses an open-bid, descending clock auction format and can handle inter-bidder dependencies and constraints.
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Area Studies
Dimiter Toshkov, Antoaneta Dimitrova, Tanja Boerzel
Summary: This article investigates the interplay between domestic socio-political orders and changing external influences of the EU, Russia, Turkey and other external actors in the region. The study proposes theoretical mechanisms linking state capacity and the actions of external actors to the likelihood of transformations from limited to open access orders. Findings reveal that external actors have more levers to undermine the establishment of an open access order, but are limited in supporting reforms towards liberal democracy and free-market economy.
EAST EUROPEAN POLITICS
(2021)
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Geography
Monika Gabriela Bartoszewicz
Summary: The Three Seas Initiative, launched by Croatia and Poland, brings together 12 European states in the Adriatic, Baltic, and Black Seas basins. This paper uses the perspective of critical geopolitics to analyze the complexity of this regional project, highlighting the "being in between" and "fragmentation and multinationality" phenomena. The analysis shows that the Intermarium aims to change the perception of the region as a political object and make Central and Eastern Europe part of the post-liberal international order.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Katharine Sanderson, Miryam Naddaf
Summary: UK researchers have been excluded from the scheme for two years due to disagreements over Brexit.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Juan Pablo Alperin
Summary: The payment method used by the global north inhibits public and scholar-led publishing efforts in Latin America.
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Psychology, Biological
Jamie Horder
Summary: The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) has announced a new policy framework requiring US federally funded research to be freely available upon publication, no later than January 2026. Dr. Alondra Nelson, head of the OSTP, discusses the background and implications of this widely discussed decision in an interview with Nature Human Behaviour.
NATURE HUMAN BEHAVIOUR
(2022)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Layal Liverpool
Summary: The group behind Plan S is proposing a more radical revolution for science publishing, after already accelerating the open-access movement.
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Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Miika Hannula, Zhuoxing Zhang, Bor-Kuan Song, Sebastian Link
Summary: A cross join between two attribute sets holds on a relation whenever its projection onto the union of the attribute sets is the cross join between its projections on the first and second attribute set. The problem of deciding whether there is a cross join that holds on a given relation is not only NP-complete but W[3]-complete in its arity. The first algorithms that discover all cross joins that hold on a given relation are established.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON KNOWLEDGE AND DATA ENGINEERING
(2023)
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Physics, Multidisciplinary
Alessia Pasquazi
Summary: Solitary waves, known as solitons, are found in various physical systems and have wide applications. The carefully engineered light-matter interactions have led to the creation of an optomechanical dissipative soliton with promising properties.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Jeff Tollefson, Richard Van Noorden
Summary: The Biden administration has instructed all US agencies to require immediate access to federally funded research after it is published, starting in 2026.
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Business
Florent Laroche, Ayana Lamatkhanova
Summary: This paper explores the impact of competition on prices and frequencies in the Interurban rail market in Europe. The study finds that intra-modal competition significantly affects frequencies, but has no impact on economy class prices due to the existence of oligopolistic organizations. Furthermore, the effects of intermodal competition are limited by substantial differences in services such as travel time, comfort, and user preferences.
RESEARCH IN TRANSPORTATION BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT
(2022)
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Pharmacology & Pharmacy
Pan Pantziarka, Rica Capistrano, Arno De Potter, Liese Vandeborne, Gauthier Bouche
Summary: Currently, there is no global, unified listing of approved anticancer drugs, but a methodology exists to combine and cleanse relevant data from multiple sources to produce a database specifically for therapeutic antineoplastic purposes, which can be used by researchers as input for further research projects.
FRONTIERS IN PHARMACOLOGY
(2021)
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
John Frank, Rosemary Foster, Claudia Pagliari
Summary: The international scholarly publishing community has been engaged in a divisive debate about the funding model for scientific research dissemination for the past twenty years, and recent commentaries suggest that the issue is far from resolved. This narrative review examines the deep divisions among stakeholders in the field, explores the systemic factors driving these divisions, and considers the future prospects of implementing the intended benefits of Open Access (OA) while mitigating its risks and costs. The review also highlights the inequities of OA for junior or unfunded researchers and scholars from resource-poor environments, who face discrimination and injustice due to Article Processing Charges.
SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE
(2023)