Legal methods to retrieve paywalled articles for free are on the rise, but better self-archiving practices could help improve accessibility. 

Text and data mining made easy with the allofPLOS project. Parsing tools together with the entire corpus of PLOS research articles for download.

After several high surplus years, a relatively small 2016 deficit will not sink PLOS.

'Free science'/pirate site operator 'working on solving DNS issue'

Books, like journals, reach far more people when they are published open access.

Michael Markie, Publisher at F1000, and Robert Kiley, Head of Open Research, Wellcome, highlight Wellcome Open Research’s achievements in its first year of publishing.

Venture will launch next year and seeks to strengthen continent’s science by helping academics share work more quickly.

Inspiration from influential European academics on Open Access.

The African Academy of Sciences, in partnership with F1000, is launching a publication platform, AAS Open Research.

Leading Swedish research funder joins nonprofit coalition committing about £2.72 mio. to eLife for a 4-year period beginning in 2018.

Scholars are planning an alternative site on which to network and share work.

In our institutions of higher education and our research labs, scholars first produce, then buy back, their own content. With the costs rising and access restricted, something's got to give.

Academic publisher Springer Nature says it has blocked access to articles within China to comply with demands from the Chinese government.

Could the real open access please stand up? If more research was published according to true open access principles, we'd see better application of evidence for everyone's benefit.