The article provides information about viXra.org – a new alternative archive of e-prints in Science and Mathematics aimed at serving the whole scientific community.

The article informs about the new Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity.

The article has the aim to introduce portal Eigenfactor.org that focuses on ranking and mapping scientific knowledge using the network theory. Methods of science evaluation are based on the model that accounts scientific literature as a large network connected by citations and a researcher moving in this network via the chain of citations. To evaluate the journals portal uses two own indicators, Eigenfactor Score and Article Influence. Basic and advanced search lead the user to a certain journal or to a ranking in a scientific field (or any otherwise defined group of journals); for each journal the user obtains detailed data and the synthetic charts. Moreover portal contains so called Cost-Effectiveness Search that enables comparing of the journals by the price and effectiveness. The article brings an analysis of this search on the example from the field information science and library science. The analysis compares the data from Eigenfactor.org in two classification schemes used and more with the original data source Journal Citation Reports by Thomson-Reuters. In the end the article briefly presents visualization tools, Interactive Browser that leads the user through the scientific network by showing neighbouring disciplines and a Motion Charts giving user the overview of the development of core journals for the discipline.

This article presents author’s reflection of the future of „Open Access“. Ideas about the future of this new phenomenon in librarianship and information science are briefly mentioned.