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 ...

Open access refers to free, unrestricted online access to research outputs such as journal articles and books. Open access content is open to all, with no access fees. There are two main routes to ...

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 ...

Big issue: A new open-access policy by UK Research and Innovation says that authors it funds must publish in a subscription journal or submit the accepted manuscript with no embargo in an open-access ...

In August, the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy released a memo directing all federal agencies to form plans to make all federally funded research publications and data publicly ...

There are two components to this presentation. The first focuses on the relevance of open-access publishing in developing countries; the potential for open-access publishing in India; and a few ...

The Case Western Reserve University faculty adopted the Faculty Open Access (OA) Policy last March, enabling wider dissemination of their scholarly articles. This policy allows faculty members to ...

Brianne Selman is on the Canadian Federation of Library Associations Copyright Committee. Mark Swartz does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding ...

Lucy Montgomery has received funding from Springer Nature for research relating to Open Access. She is also affiliated with a number or organisations involved in Open Access scholarly communication, ...

Open access refers to free, unrestricted online access to research outputs such as journal articles and books. Open access content is open to all, with no access fees. Open access articles are ...

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, ...