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Study examining whether NIH funded articles that were archived in PMC after the release of the 2008 NIH Public Access Policy show greater scholarly impact than comparable articles not archived in PMC.
The Association of Universities in the Netherlands and Elsevier have reached an agreement in principle that marks a milestone in the Netherlands' transition to Open Access.
Commission proposes a research-friendly copyright for open science and innovation in Europe.
What's the difference between ResearchGate, Academia.edu, and the institutional repository?
The Austrian Science Fund has agreed to support the Open Library of Humanities' Library Partnership Subsidy system at a rate equivalent to 15 institutions from 2016-2020.
OpenCon2015 posters and talks on innovations in science communication and open science.
The editorial staff of a research journal have resigned to protest the company’s failure to embrace open access.
University of California expands the reach of its research publications by issuing a [3]Presidential Open Access Policy, allowing future scholarly articles authored by all UC employees to be freely shared with readers worldwide.
A timeline showing the major milestones in 10 years of Open Access at the Wellcome Trust.
Sixty three per cent of original research articles published to date on nature.com in 2015 are open access, nearly 10,000 papers. Ten years ago, NPG introduced its first fully open access journal. Today, NPG publishes over 80 journals with an open access option.
LERU Statement for the 2016 Dutch EU Presidency.
The current and future issues around post-publication open peer review and the protagonists and platforms that encourage open peer review, pre-and post-publication.
PLOS ONE increases author publication costs rates in 10%.
Study was commissioned by Universities UK's Open Access Co-ordination Group.
Insights into the most prevalent issues hindering the development of open access.
Well-known mathematician, Tim Gowers, launches an arXiv.org-overlay journal "Discrete Analysis" with no charges for both readers and authors.
This empirical paper discusses how copyright affects data mining by academic researchers.
By paying 3.5 Mio CHF for Elsevier journals in 2014 the ETH tops all British universities..
The mission of CORE is to aggregate all open access research outputs from repositories and journals worldwide and make them available to the public.
This study uses a bibliometric method to examine the relationship between two journal characteristics during 2009–2013: the article processing charges and the percentage of published articles based on work that is supported by grant-funded articles.
The way scientific information diffuses through the knowledge economy is changing, and the first evidence from Wikipedia shows how.
The country's economic crisis is hitting researchers hard.
The Netherlands are negotiating with publishers about an OA policy. They managed to achieve agreements with some publishers, but not with Elsevier.
How does the future for open access look?
Elsevier has filed a complaint hoping to shut down websites which are particularly popular in developing nations where access to academic works is relatively expensive.
by Michael Eisen, co-Founder of PLoS
Advocates of open access tell only one side of the story, ignoring the exploitative practices and poor quality of many open-access journals.
Russian government failed to pay for the subscription for 2014 to the amount of €890,000 (US$1 million).
Elsevier announced a new sharing and hosting policy for Elsevier journal articles.
Frontiers, based in Lausanne, removed 31 editors from two journals after the editors complained that company staff were interfering with editorial decisions and violating core principles of medical publishing.
