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Launch of astroEDU: Peer-Reviewed Open-Access Astronomy Education Activities Platform

Staff Writer | Nanowerk News | November 29, 2013

A new platform for high-quality, peer-reviewed astronomy education activities has been launched by the IAU Office of Astronomy for Development at the ESA/Galileo Teachers Training Program Teacher Training Workshop, Leiden, Netherlands. [...] Read More »

'Open Access' Science Journals Continue to Expand

John Timmer | Ars Technica | April 24, 2013

To help speed the flow of scientific information, the National Institutes of Health has mandated a policy where any papers derived from research it funds are made public within a year of their publication... Read More »

5 Annoying Things About Open Access

Anna Kinsey | Europe PubMed Central | October 21, 2013

To start, I should say that all at Europe PMC support Open Access. This is just a short list of some issues that can be frustrating… Read More »

A Big Step Forward: Subterranean Biology Journal Moves To Advanced Open Access Publishing

Press Release | Pensoft Publishers | April 30, 2013

Subterranean Biology now fully joins the peer reviewed open access family of journals published by Pensoft Publishers, who also publish ZooKeys, PhytoKeys and others. Read More »

Academics Urge Peers To Self-Publish Research

Benedicte Page | The Bookseller | January 11, 2013

Academics are looking to their own Open Access ventures to create new spaces for monograph publishing, a conference on OA in the humanities and social sciences heard last week. Read More »

Access Barriers Relegating Africa To Invisible Research Contributor

Jean McKenzie | Engineering News | November 8, 2012

The growth of research in Africa and the ability to find solutions to the continent’s problems will remain limited if African academic libraries continued to have restricted access to official research information, Science and Technology Minister Derek Hanekom said on Wednesday. Read More »

Access To Research - Comment

Alexandra Saxon | MaterialsToday.com | October 25, 2012

Research Councils UK (RCUK), a partnership of the UK's seven Research Councils recently announced a new access policy for the research they fund. Alexandra Saxon explains the new policy and what it means for researchers. Read More »

Advanced Open Access Publishing Model

Staff Writer | Science Codex | October 23, 2013

There are two main modes of open access publishing – Green Open Access, where the author has the right to provide free access to the article outside the publisher's web site in a repository or on his/her own website, and Gold Open Access, where articles are available for free download directly from the publisher on the day of publication. Read More »

After Aaron, Reputation Metrics Startups Aim To Disrupt The Scientific Journal Industry

Richard Price | TechCrunch | February 3, 2013

Aaron Swartz was determined to free up access to academic articles. He perceived an injustice in which scientific research lies behind expensive paywalls despite being funded by the taxpayer. The taxpayer ends up paying twice for the same research: once to fund it and a second time to read it... Read More »

As Costs For Academic Journals Stay High, Universities Look To Open Access

Erin Hudson | Canadian University Press | October 30, 2012

The high costs to access peer-reviewed research is forcing academics to take a hard look at how scholarly work should be distributed in the future and, so far, the most promising alternative is to post online for free. Read More »

Berlin 'Open Access' Conference Recap

Abby Clobridge | Information Today | November 15, 2012

As open access (OA) and other “open” movements become more of a part of the mainstream consciousness, conversations surrounding OA continue to evolve—moving from whether OA is a good approach to far more provocative questions such as, how do we move past the legacies of the print publication world and what is a journal in today’s environment? Read More »

Boycott Of Publishing Giant Elsevier Gathers Pace

Zane Schwartz | The Varsity | September 10, 2012

Frustrated by what they call an exploitative business model and unreasonable prices, researchers at [University of Toronto] have joined a growing movement asking: how much must we pay for knowledge?
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Busting The Top Five Myths About Open Access Publishing

Danny Kingsley | The Conversation | July 11, 2013

Rather than lock up knowledge in costly journals, increasingly universities and governments are recognising that publicly funded research should be open to all. Read More »

Buying Book Chapters Like Music Tracks, And What’s Wrong With Traditional Peer Review Anyway? A Conversation With Duke University Press, Part Two.

Adeline Koh | The Chronicle of Higher Education | April 17, 2013

This is part 2 of the ninth interview in a series by Adeline Koh entitled Digital Challenges to Academic Publishing. Each article in this series features an interview with an academic publisher, press or journal editor on how their organization is changing in response to the digital world. Read More »

CERN: Free Access To Scientific Journals In Physics In 2014

Maricel Estavillo | Intellectual Property Watch | October 3, 2012

The Geneva-based European Organization for Nuclear Physics (CERN) has collaborated with funding agencies and libraries of 29 countries to make freely available access to otherwise expensive scientific articles in the field of particle physics. Read More »