Open Access

With the growth of the Internet in the 1980s and 90s, academic publishing businesses found it difficult to stay afloat. Newspapers had a difficult time keeping paid subscriptions…

Open science is an effort that aims to make scientific research, data, and its distribution accessible to all. This involves practices like publishing open research and campaigning…

The Dutch state secretary of education, Sander Dekker, wants all publications from Dutch scientists to be available under Gold Open Access by 2024. This would require that the…

Cell Press has its beginnings in 1974 when Benjamin Lewin founded Cell. Since then Cell Press has gone on to publish more than 30 academic research journals. Cell Press is an…

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has demonstrated its support for rapid dissemination of research data through the open access policy that they support. Self-described as…

Data gathered in clinical trials is critical to effective medical treatment, as they allow doctors to make informed decisions in patient care. Researchers and policymakers also…

Springer Nature has been busy finding new ways to serve the research community. Close on the heels of the release of SharedIt and Recommended they have now pioneered SciGraph.…

This is a follow-up post to our feature article on the Gates Foundation accelerating open access   The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has been a major funder of academic…

Preprint archives allow the submission of scholarly articles before they have been subject to peer review. These archives are open access repositories, i.e, submissions can obtain…

Wiley is a publishing company with a global reach and is on a mission to support research, education, and professional practice with learning and knowledge dissemination tools such…

ArXiv is an open access repository maintained by the Cornell University Library. Articles deposited in arXiv are subject to moderation by more than 150 subject experts who…