Fees charged by academic publishers to access research journals have caused no small amount of consternation among readers of scholarly research and fuelled the rise of the Open Access movement. Wiley ...

Open Access is academic publications that are free to read and often have various re-use rights utilizing Creative Commons licenses. Research can be Open Access through publishing or archiving. Open ...

Recently launched OA journals recognized for quality in latest Journal Citation Reports™ PISCATAWAY, N.J., 27 July 2023 -- IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization advancing ...

Michael Eisen doesn't hold back when invited to vent. “It's still ludicrous how much it costs to publish research — let alone what we pay,” he declares. The biggest travesty, he says, is that the ...

Executive Officer, Australasian Open Access Support Group, Australian National University Virginia Barbour for the Australasian Open Access Support Group, an open access advocacy group. I used to work ...

The Nelson Memo, released by the Biden administration in 2022, mandates that all federally funded research be made publicly ...

Open access publishing continues to gain ground, with universities and libraries offering increased support in the form of funding for publisher fees and repository infrastructure. Research funders ...

Open access refers to free, unrestricted online access to research outputs such as journal articles and books. Open access content is open to all, with no access fees. Open access articles are ...

Surprise: the New England Journal of Medicine thinks open access is a bad idea. Open access is the model of scientific publishing in which all results are freely available for anyone, anywhere, to ...

Nine months after a dogged academic librarian quietly deleted his carefully tended list shaming more than a thousand scientific journals as unscrupulous, the Beall’s List Murder Mystery remains ...

T he open-access policies now being adopted by governments around the world, most notably in the U.S., the U.K., and the E.U., are designed to remove paywalls from the publication of publicly funded ...

Nature journals recently announced an author fee, €9500, which is thought to be the highest of any journal. This news has been received with outrage and disappointment among scientists, especially ...