In her recent post, Molly Stech of STM, the international association of scientific publishers, discusses Problems Presented by the Secondary Publication Right. According to its website, “STM…
Scholarly publishing is a complex and diverse ecosystem, encompassing a multiplicity of publishers, business models, and disciplines. At their core, these organizations are united by the common…
As the Commission moves towards deciding what will and will not be in the European Research Area (ERA) Act, one key question is whether it will include a Secondary Publication Right (SPR), or whether…
In May 2025, the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia unanimously (with 76 votes in favour and none against) adopted an amendment to the Scientific Research and Innovation Activity Act (Slo…
The European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities (ALLEA) has for many years supported the move away from proprietary models of scholarly publishing towards Open Access (OA).[1] ALLEA…
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In recent years, a so called ‘Secondary Publication Right’ (SPR) has been adopted in a number of European countries and become a policy hot topic at…
