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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.
This research investigates the relationship between open science and public engagement.
Three years after the OSTP directive, policies to make data and publications resulting from federally funded research publicly accessible are becoming the norm.
How Sci-Hub breaks the paywall and how did academic journals get so expensive?
Independent advice from Professor Adam Tickell on open access to research publications.
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).
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 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.
Report to the Swiss Science and Innovation Council SSIC.
Last year "PLOS ONE" published 10% fewer papers than it did two years ago, but its editors are not alarmed.
Academic consortia urge faster changes in scholarly publishing.
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.
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.
Commission proposes a research-friendly copyright for open science and innovation in Europe.
What's the difference between ResearchGate, Academia.edu, and the institutional repository?
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 posters and talks on innovations in science communication and open science.
The editorial staff of a research journal have resigned to protest the company’s failure to embrace open access.
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.
A timeline showing the major milestones in 10 years of Open Access at the Wellcome Trust.
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.
LERU Statement for the 2016 Dutch EU Presidency.
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 ONE increases author publication costs rates in 10%.
Study was commissioned by Universities UK's Open Access Co-ordination Group.
Insights into the most prevalent issues hindering the development of open access.
Well-known mathematician, Tim Gowers, launches an arXiv.org-overlay journal "Discrete Analysis" with no charges for both readers and authors.
This empirical paper discusses how copyright affects data mining by academic researchers.
By paying 3.5 Mio CHF for Elsevier journals in 2014 the ETH tops all British universities..
The mission of CORE is to aggregate all open access research outputs from repositories and journals worldwide and make them available to the public.
