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Should All Research Papers Be Free?
Drawing comparisons to Edward Snowden, a graduate student from Kazakhstan named Alexandra Elbakyan is believed to be hiding out in Russia after illegally leaking millions of documents.
The open research value proposition: How sharing can help researchers succeed
The open research value proposition: How sharing can help researchers succeed
A review on the open citation advantage, media attention for publicly available research, collaborative possibilities, and special funding opportunities to show how open practices can give researchers a competitive advantage.
Route too costly, UK report says
The route to open-access publishing endorsed by the British government puts unacceptable strains on research budgets at a time of funding shortages. The report also argues for more transparency and competition in the costs of publishing research.
Mapping the hinterland: data issues in open science
This research investigates the relationship between open science and public engagement.
Increasing access to the results of federally funded science
Three years after the OSTP directive, policies to make data and publications resulting from federally funded research publicly accessible are becoming the norm.
Why one woman stole 47 million academic papers - and made them all free to read
How Sci-Hub breaks the paywall and how did academic journals get so expensive?
Independent advice
Independent advice from Professor Adam Tickell on open access to research publications.
Recommendations for the transition to Open Access in Austria
By 2025, all scholarly publication activity in Austria should be Open Access: the final versions of all scholarly publications resulting from the support of public resources must be freely accessible on the Internet without delay (Gold Open Access).
Academics want you to read their work for free
Publishing an open-access paper in a journal can be prohibitively expensive. Some researchers are drumming up support for a movement to change that.
The academic world urges publishers to enter a brave new world
The Chair and Secretary-General of LERU present the signatures to the LERU Statement on Open Access to Commissioner Carlos Moedas and Dutch Secretary of State Sander Dekker.
Publishing, commerce, and the scientific ethos
Report to the Swiss Science and Innovation Council SSIC.
As PLOS cedes some ground, a movement gathers steam
Last year "PLOS ONE" published 10% fewer papers than it did two years ago, but its editors are not alarmed.
Dutch lead European push to flip journals to open access
Academic consortia urge faster changes in scholarly publishing.
Examining the impact of the NIH Public Access Policy on the citation rates of journal articles
Examining the impact of the NIH Public Access Policy on the citation rates of journal articles
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.
Dutch Universities and Elsevier reach agreement
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.
EU Commission sets out plan to allow free data mining
Commission proposes a research-friendly copyright for open science and innovation in Europe.
A social networking site is not an open access repository
What's the difference between ResearchGate, Academia.edu, and the institutional repository?
FWF commits to 5 years of funding for OLH
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 presentations
OpenCon2015 posters and talks on innovations in science communication and open science.
Elsevier mutiny: cracks are starting to widen in the fortress of academic publishing
Elsevier mutiny: cracks are starting to widen in the fortress of academic publishing
The editorial staff of a research journal have resigned to protest the company’s failure to embrace open access.
UC policy extends free access to all scholarly articles written by UC employees
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.
10 yrs of OA at the Wellcome Trust
A timeline showing the major milestones in 10 years of Open Access at the Wellcome Trust.
Over 60% of 2015 research articles on Nature.com are OA
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.
Christmas is over: Research funding should go to research, not to publishers!
LERU Statement for the 2016 Dutch EU Presidency.
For what it’s worth – the open peer review landscape
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 publication costs increase
PLOS ONE increases author publication costs rates in 10%.
Monitoring the Transition to Open Access
Study was commissioned by Universities UK's Open Access Co-ordination Group.
Barriers to Open Access publishing: views from the library literature
Insights into the most prevalent issues hindering the development of open access.
Discrete Analysis
Well-known mathematician, Tim Gowers, launches an arXiv.org-overlay journal "Discrete Analysis" with no charges for both readers and authors.