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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.
Open-access publishing held to the same standards as paid subscription journals.
Ireland's Health Research Board is the first public funder to launch their own publication platform.
Why we need a public data infrastructure of publishing costs.
A community of scholar-led, not-for-profit presses, journals and other open access projects in the humanities and social sciences.
This Perspective article argues that universities should take action to support open scholarship that benefits society and to return to their core missions of knowledge dissemination, community engagement, and public good.
What can be done to preserve the monograph.
Taxpayers sometimes have to pay three times for any scientific article.
Increased provision of information in accessible repositories appears to be a cost-effective way to advance science. Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial.
An article considering both the efficacy and ethics of piracy, placing ‘guerrilla open access’ within a longer history of piracy and access to knowledge.
German libraries and universities want all German-authored papers to be freely available worldwide.
Cost-neutral extension of the existing Springer contracts by one year.
This first-of-a-kind report from Knowledge Exchange maps the landscape for Open Access books in the Knowledge Exchange countries; Finland, Netherlands, UK, France, Denmark and Germany, together with Norway and Austria.
Biologists are posting unreviewed papers in record numbers. Here's a survival guide.
Many of the important papers penned by the chemistry laureates are not freely accessible.
Take-down notices “imminent” as lawsuit is filed alleging widespread copyright infringement.
A call on research organizations and their libraries to secure and earmark a share of their acquisition budgets to support the development of scientific publishing activities.
The American Chemical Society seeks a broad order that includes millions of dollars in damages and demands action from Internet service providers and search engines.
Academic publishers in general and Elsevier in particular have a reputation for their ruthless profiteering, using professional negotiators pitting hapless librarians against their own faculty.
Publishing means different things to different communities and individual approaches to OA are representative of this fact.
Understanding the potential effects of requiring that grantees publish their peer-reviewed research in open access journals.
After almost 25 years since Stevan Harnad’s “subversive proposal“, now, finally, scholars and the public have a range of avenues at their disposal to access nearly every scholarly article.
I was reminded today about the wonderful history of Nature in it's claim that it would make all papers reporting a new genome sequence freely and openly available.
After almost two decades, these developments give hope that scholarly articles will finally be freed from their paywalls.
The Open APC initiative releases datasets on fees paid for Open Access journal articles by universities and research institutions under an Open Database License.
Letter requests that ResearchGate consider removing content in violation of copyright.
If you have a pressing need to read an academic paper that’s hiding behind a paywall, your quickest course of action may well be to use Sci-Hub.
Dissemin detects papers behind pay-walls and invites their authors to upload them in one click to an open repository.
Over the last 2 years more than 150 German libraries, universities, and research institutes have formed a united front trying to force academic publishers into a new way of doing business.
