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.

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.

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.

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.

It’s a dirty open secret in academia. Scholars work very hard to prove their work is worth taxpayers’ money, but then publish it in journals that are prohibitively expensive—not just for taxpayers but academics themselves.

A new project to convert PDF to XML with high accuracy by complementing existing tools with computer vision technology.

From fungal networks sharing information and resources connecting all living things to the open source paradigm: Agroecology needs Open Access.

Open access looks set to shake up the humanities and social sciences book landscape for the better.