When scholarship is made freely available, it allows researchers worldwide to engage with it, resulting in a much larger reach and impact. Over the past year, the University of Delaware Library, ...

The EU is set to rein in the “racket” of scientific publishing by backing open access to publicly-funded research papers. The proposals, first reported by Research Professional News, emerged in a new ...

Open Access provides free, immediate, online access to scholarly research. It not only has the power to transform the way research and scientific inquiry are conducted but is a complicated reality of ...

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 ...

A university press’s efforts to assess the implications of open access pushed it to join a growing chorus of voices calling for reform of the incentive structures straining the academic publishing ...

If you have ever had to cite scholarly work for a paper, you likely understand the frustration of finding the perfect article, only to discover that precious information is trapped behind a paywall.

The group behind the radical open-access initiative Plan S has announced its next big plan to shake up research publishing — and this one could be bolder than the first. It wants all versions of an ...

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 ...

Today, Canadian Science Publishing (CSP) and the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) announced a new transformative open access publishing agreement that will provide open access to new ...

University leaders pay close attention to comparative rankings such as those offered by Times Higher Education, ShanghaiRanking Consultancy and others. Rankings influence student matriculation numbers ...

Open access represents a transformative publishing paradigm that removes subscription barriers to ensure that research outputs are freely available to anyone with an internet connection. By providing ...

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