Although many open-access scientific journals claim the articles they publish are subject to peer review, that doesn't always happen. Science magazine contributor John Bohannon sent out bogus ...

In the continuing debate about open access to scientific literature, the pro-access side gained strength with a study, published this afternoon, that says that, during the first four to 16 months ...

CAMBRIDGE, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Over 50 percent of Cambridge University Press research articles are now published open access (OA) and so freely available to read.Having passed the 50 percent ...

Open Access papers are freely available to read, download, and share. Authors retain copyright under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY), which permits unrestricted use, ...

Making scholarly research outputs openly available is easy, legal, and has demonstrable benefits to authors, making it a good beginning step for a researcher just beginning to explore the open world.

Critics may point out that OpenScholar’s reliance on open-access papers limits its immediate utility in high-stakes fields like pharmaceuticals, where much of the research is locked behind paywalls.

Register for Open Access Week seminar Oct. 23. This year’s International Open Access Week is centered on the theme “Community over Commercialization,” encouraging a candid conversation about which ...

For years, advocates of open access to research literature have claimed that making a paper freely available online will increase the number of times it is cited by other articles. But the data ...

Open access (OA) is a term associated with certain practices in academic publishing which improve access to scholarly work. An OA scientific paper will be free and fully accessible.

Even before the federal government's open-access mandate kicks in, most of the researchers surveyed (over 60 percent) had already paid APCs, over a third of them having done so multiple times.