Following in the footsteps of the National Institutes of Health, which now demands researchers who received funding from it to deposit their results in the institutes’ online archive within 12 months ...

The Public Library of Science, a major publisher of open-access journals, unveiled its latest project today: PLoS ONE, an online journal of general science. The journal, once it is officially started ...

This page is part of the Harvard Open Access Project (HOAP). As you consider different OA journals, bear in mind that some will be high in quality, impact, and prestige. Some will be low. In this ...

The COVID-19 pandemic fueled a mass push toward digitizing just about everything, from e-books to online courses. That trickled down to the scholarly publishing industry, most notably making journal ...

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 ...

A study of open-access publishing--published last week in the open-access journal PLoS ONE--has found that the number of papers in freely accessible journals is growing at a steady 20% per year (M.

Members of the University of Massachusetts World Librarians team are working to promote open access information and get their RSO up and running this semester. Professor of environmental conservation ...

The group behind the radical open-access initiative Plan S has announced its next big plan to shake up research publishing — and this one could be bolder than the first. It wants all versions of an ...

US biomedical agency’s public-access policy kicks in on 1 July. Nature talks to specialists about how to comply. From 1 July, researchers funded by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) will be ...

A Maryland 16-year-old, inspired by the death of a family friend, recently developed a rapid and inexpensive screening method using Google, Wikipedia and YouTube for certain cancers. The method has ...

This page is part of the Harvard Open Access Project (HOAP). I sketched this page here on the HOAP wiki, October 8, 2017, and moved it to the OAD October 9, 2017. On this page, I'm collecting OA ...

In an article coauthored in interview format, the authors introduce open-access practices in an anthropological context. Complimenting the other essays in this special section on open access, on the ...