With traditional journals suffering from rising costs and increased disinterest in print subscriptions, online open access is looking more appealing than ever. The team behind recently launched ...

Bill and Melinda Gates visiting women in Jamsaut village in Bihar, India. Open access to journals is particularly important for researchers in developing countries. (Gates Foundation Photo) Scientific ...

Journals publishing is in crisis. For years, subscription prices have gone up rapidly, with the average annual increase now close to 10 percent; some journals cost three times as much today as they ...

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 ...

An effort to make NIH-funded research immediately accessible to the public has led to disruption and financial strain for ...

Harvard's library appears set to push open access harder than its Ivy League rival. Earlier this month, a special council to the Harvard library system sent a note to the school's entire faculty ...

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 ...

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 ...

As the internet evolves, webpages that were live years ago are frequently no longer available today. In some cases, that’s for the best (so long, embarrassing MySpace profiles), but it is a concern ...