Publicly funded research underpins much of daily life, from policy decisions to innovation and public debate. When research remains inaccessible, its value is diminished. Australia has made real ...

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, ...

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 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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Mississippi State University researchers can now publish unlimited open access research articles—without any current academic author fees—in five top scholarly journals supporting life sciences. The ...

The theme of this year’s International Open Access Week encourages our research community to consider both the benefits and the responsibilities of making research data open. Sharing research data ...

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 ...