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The British commentator George Monbiot once compared academic publishers to the media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, concluding that the former were more predatory.
Institutions 'unbending' on fee-free demand as talks with Elsevier resume. Meanwhile, a deal that meets the universities’ requirements was made with Springer.
Two of India's science funding agencies are joining the push to make the results of the research they fund freely available to the public.
Recent moves by established journals to make research papers freely available signpost the direction of travel in academic publishing
Nature will make its articles back to 1869 free to share to be read online but not to be printed or downloaded.
The estimated cost to UK research organisations of achieving compliance with OA mandates in 2013/2014.
Each country, scholarly field, and institution has developed responses to new scholarly communication systems, and those policies and responses influence the behavior of the scholars within those systems.
SPARC Europe and London Higher have jointly commissioned a study by Research Consulting into the overhead costs to universities of complying with the RCUK OA policy.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation plans to require that the researchers it funds publish only in immediate open-access journals.
One of Swartz' lawyers, writes about the spiteful and unreasonable charges that led to his suicide—and MIT's gutless support of his prosecutors.
Scholarly articles, filled with indubitable knowledge and analysis, only exist for the general public behind pricey paywalls. So one lecturer is advocating for them to be free of charge.
France may not have any money left for its universities but it does have money for academic publishers.
California has become the first state to mandate open access for the products of taxpayer-funded research.
Er gründet eine Online-Zeitschrift ohne jegliche Schranke, twittert die Mitteilungen des Bundesgerichts und bemüht sich hartnäckig darum, dass alle Gerichte ihre Urteile zugänglich machen: Daniel Hürlimann rüttelt am Justizapparat.
More than half of all peer-reviewed research articles published from 2007 to 2012 are now free to download somewhere on the Internet, according to a report produced for the European Commission.
University wants scientists to make their research open access and resign from publications that keep articles behind paywalls.
Wall Street analysts say open access has failed, but their analysis might help us succeed. If we dare.
Changes that will bring scientific discovery more freely into the public domain are happening.
We know that those Open Access policies that work are the ones that have teeth. Both institutional and funder policies work better when tied to reporting requirements.
We explore the feasibility and consequences of a Biblioleaks event for researchers, journals, publishers, and the broader communities of doctors and the patients they serve.
One hundred and fifteen scientists have signed an open letter to the AAAS expressing concerns over the launch of a new scientific journal, Science Advances.
It can seem like a magic word is needed to get published in the top academic journals. Is open access a genuine alternative?
Scientists who use government money to conduct genomic research will be required to quickly share the data they gather under a policy announced on Wednesday by the NIH.
eLife has released its 2013 financials, which give an indication of what a premier OA journal article costs to produce.
A number of suggestions for the new AAAS open access journal Science Advances.
On the importance of remaining pragmatic due to the risk of collapsing the entire publishing system in an effort to improve it.
Position paper issued by the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences.
Scientific publishers producing model copyright licences will make it harder for academic research to be a "first class citizen of the web".
Overview of some of the approaches that research funders take to open access and why.
The US Department of Energy has revealed how papers from research it funds will become free to read.
