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.
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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.
Copyright's impact on data mining in academic research
This empirical paper discusses how copyright affects data mining by academic researchers.
What ETH Zurich paid to Elsevier, Springer and Wiley
By paying 3.5 Mio CHF for Elsevier journals in 2014 the ETH tops all British universities..
CORE - COnnecting REpositories
The mission of CORE is to aggregate all open access research outputs from repositories and journals worldwide and make them available to the public.
Investigation of the degree to which articles supported by research grants
This study uses a bibliometric method to examine the relationship between two journal characteristics during 2009–2013: the article processing charges and the percentage of published articles based on work that is supported by grant-funded articles.
Why Wikipedia + Open Access = Revolution
The way scientific information diffuses through the knowledge economy is changing, and the first evidence from Wikipedia shows how.
Greek scientists lose access to digital journals
The country's economic crisis is hitting researchers hard.
Dutch universities start their Elsevier boycott plan
The Netherlands are negotiating with publishers about an OA policy. They managed to achieve agreements with some publishers, but not with Elsevier.
HEFCE, Elsevier, the "copy request" button, and the future of open access
How does the future for open access look?
Elsevier cracks down on pirated scientific articles
Elsevier has filed a complaint hoping to shut down websites which are particularly popular in developing nations where access to academic works is relatively expensive.
The inevitable failure of parasitic green open access
by Michael Eisen, co-Founder of PLoS
What the Open-Access Movement Doesn't Want You to Know
Advocates of open access tell only one side of the story, ignoring the exploitative practices and poor quality of many open-access journals.
Russia denied access to west's science journals
Russian government failed to pay for the subscription for 2014 to the amount of €890,000 (US$1 million).
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