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Diego Gomez, a Colombian graduate student, currently faces up to eight years in prison for doing something thousands of researchers do every day: posting research results online for those who would not otherwise have a way to access them.
How centralization of journals led to the serials crisis and why democratizing digital journal publishing using services is the key to fixing it.
Financing massive-scale copyright infringement.
The first data on the uptake of open access to publications in Horizon 2020.
In February 2017, when Elsevier were accused of selling one paid-for hybrid open access article, at first they sowed doubt about it, then three days later admitted it to be true.
Arrangement could be sign of things to come
The provisional agreement may set a precedent for other funders and journal publishers.
Elsevier have been caught selling access to paid-for “open articles in 2014, 2015, and 2016.
Publisher makes papers available again while countrywide negotiations over open access and price continue.
Textbooks aren't selling like they used to, but a new business model that has led to increased access to course materials and lower costs at some universities is beginning to take shape.
Publisher restores access as negotiations for a nationwide licence continue.
The debate about open access has until now focused on the gold (journals) versus the green route (manuscript self‐archival).
Coalition of scientists and research agencies argue for a one-stop shop server.
The growth of open access hasn't significantly changed the publishing landscape as regards impact factor.
The EU should listen to the innovators, knowledge creators and developers when it comes to data mining: the potential benefits are too great to be ignored, writes Helen Frew.
Very informative and In-depth annual open access roundup.
Toward the Unrestricted Publication of Research Output
Meta, a data science company, has been acquired by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, whose aim is to accelerate the pace of scientific advances.
Academia.edu, ResearchGate and private publishers all have something in common.
The different options to achieve open access, whether by journals changing their revenue structures from subscription to publishing charges, or authors utilizing a number of options for posting open access versions of article manuscripts in repositories.
Letter from the Dutch State Secretary for Education, Culture and Science informing the House of Representatives of the progress made in the field of open science.
How open licenses can simplify international research when multiple research projects are involved and when projects have ended.
Empowering researchers to publish Open Access by bringing transparency to Article Processing Charges.
Elsevier’s Open Access journals as of 2016.
The potential advantages and challenges involved in a shift away from for-profit journals in favor of institutional open access publishing.
Publications such as Nature and Science have policies that clash with the global health charity's open-access mandate.
Shouldn't all research be, first and foremost, accessible? Accessibility underpins equality.
Traditionally, at the beginning of the new year we celebrated what is known as Public Domain Day: on the first of January of any given year the works of authors who have been dead for more than 70 years enter the public domain. As this is a decisive year for copyright reform in the European Union, it seems much more important to highlight the dangers for the public domain that we are facing in the context of the copyright reform process.
