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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Developing country scientists cite open access papers more than restricted ones, suggesting they enhance their participation in science. Skip to content Bringing science & development together through ...

TS: You and your coauthors also analyzed the citation of open-access articles in your data set. What does the fact that open-access papers were cited 18 percent more than the average citation rate ...

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, ...

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.

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 ...

That is the number of potential peer-reviewers I had to approach for a paper in a top mental health and addiction journal I ...