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 ...

The California Digital Library launched a new project this month to support open-access publishing. Arcadia, a charitable fund started by philanthropists Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, is funding ...

As informal conversations continue with Elsevier, what’s been the impact so far? Amid cordial negotiations, Wiley and Springer Nature extend access past contract expirations 2 new agreements provide ...

There’s a new resource for librarians looking for high-quality, open-access library and information science research, There’s a new resource for librarians looking for high-quality, open-access ...

The open access movement has progressed very slowly over the past few decades. Recent changes to US federal guidelines for grant funding have rejuvenated the conversation around a sustainable open ...

“This might be too geeky for a column,” said the subject line of a reader's email, “but just in case …” It sounded like a challenge, and I took the bait. The topic in question? A new statistical ...

I've written a lot over the years about open access (OA) to research. This bibliography of my writings on OA focuses less on news and more on commentary and analysis — pieces that might still be of ...

This page outlines the different ways in which you can make your journal articles and conference papers open access as a University of Sheffield staff member or postgraduate research student. Which ...

In 1938, as concerns of censorship rose worldwide, Des Moines Public Library Director Forrest Spaulding penned the words that would become the "Library Bill of Rights." The first tenet states: "Books ...

Learn how we can help you get the many benefits of open access book publishing. Open access is a publishing model that makes research freely available online for anyone to read, share and reuse.