It’s Time for a Revolution in Data Access
Trevor Mundel, President of Global Health at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is eager to see Gates Open Research match the performance of Wellcome Open Research.
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The Future of Open Access Should Not Be Left to the Legacy Publishers
The Future of Open Access Should Not Be Left to the Legacy Publishers
The interests of the legacy publishers cannot co-exist with the ideals of the Open Access movement.
Need a Paper? Get a Plug-In
A collection of web-browser plug-ins is making the scholarly literature more discoverable.
Scholarly Publications Beyond Pay-Walls: Increased Citation Advantage for Open Publishing
Scholarly Publications Beyond Pay-Walls: Increased Citation Advantage for Open Publishing
A clear citation advantage for open publishing with open available documents receiving twice as many citations.
eLife Welcomes the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
Leading Swedish research funder joins nonprofit coalition committing about £2.72 mio. to eLife for a 4-year period beginning in 2018.
A Nonprofit Alternative to ResearchGate
Scholars are planning an alternative site on which to network and share work.
Academic Journal Publishing Is Headed for a Day of Reckoning
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.
The OA Effect
How does open access affect the usage of scholarly books? A white paper by Springer Nature.
Trends in Open Access Book Publishing
A survey on open access books, revealed that of the 99 authors, 55.5% self-archived their chapters.
If Funders and Libraries Subscribed to Open Access
Considerations of open access models that can work across disciplines. The case of ELife, PLoS, and BioOne.
Springer Nature Blocks Access to Articles in China
Academic publisher Springer Nature says it has blocked access to articles within China to comply with demands from the Chinese government.
Not Just Available, but also Useful
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.
You Can Download Hawking's PhD For Free, but It Took 50 Years To Make It Happen
On the slow but steady rise of Open Access.
How Wikimedia Helped Authors Make over 3000 Articles Green Open Access
Michele Marchetto of Wikimedia Italia shares the story of how they helped authors to make their open access articles more widely available.
Not Just Available, but Also Useful: We Must Keep Pushing to Improve Open Access to Research
Not Just Available, but Also Useful: We Must Keep Pushing to Improve Open Access to Research
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.
The Unexpected Reason Researchers Choose Open Access
Open-access publishing held to the same standards as paid subscription journals.
Ireland's Health Research Board Launches Their Own Publication Platform: HRB Open Research
Ireland's Health Research Board Launches Their Own Publication Platform: HRB Open Research
Ireland's Health Research Board is the first public funder to launch their own publication platform.
Understanding the Costs of Scholarly Publishing
Why we need a public data infrastructure of publishing costs.
Radical Open Access Website Officially Launched
A community of scholar-led, not-for-profit presses, journals and other open access projects in the humanities and social sciences.
Imagining The "Open" University: Sharing Scholarship to Improve Research and Education
Imagining The "Open" University: Sharing Scholarship to Improve Research and Education
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.
Making the Monograph Sustainable
What can be done to preserve the monograph.
Is The Academic Publishing Industry Ripe For Disruption?
Taxpayers sometimes have to pay three times for any scientific article.
Science Is Shaped by Wikipedia
Increased provision of information in accessible repositories appears to be a cost-effective way to advance science. Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial.
Access, Ethics and Piracy
An article considering both the efficacy and ethics of piracy, placing ‘guerrilla open access’ within a longer history of piracy and access to knowledge.
Researchers Resign from Elsevier Journals in Push for Nationwide Open Access
Researchers Resign from Elsevier Journals in Push for Nationwide Open Access
German libraries and universities want all German-authored papers to be freely available worldwide.
DEAL and Springer Nature: First Results of the Negotiation
Cost-neutral extension of the existing Springer contracts by one year.
A Defining Overview on OA & Academic Books
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.
The Preprint Dilemma
Biologists are posting unreviewed papers in record numbers. Here's a survival guide.
Are the Papers Behind This Year's Nobel Prizes in the Public Domain?
Many of the important papers penned by the chemistry laureates are not freely accessible.
Publishers Threaten to Remove Millions of Papers from ResearchGate
Take-down notices “imminent” as lawsuit is filed alleging widespread copyright infringement.
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