SAGE Open article compares and contrasts the disruptive tensions of open access publishing with...
Supporters of open academic content have long touted its ability to widen the impact and productivity of scholarship while relieving cost pressures in academia....
Open Access Week Events Shine Spotlight on Increasing the Impact of Research
Hundreds of events will take place across the globe to highlight the power of Open Access to increase the impact of scientific and scholarly...
Four Leading International Wiley Journals Become Open Access
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., today announced the transition of four journals to the Wiley Open Access publishing program, bringing the total number of...
BioMed Central is gearing up for Open Access Week
The 6th year of Open Access Week is fast approaching and we would like to tell you about some exciting events BioMed Central has planned to mark...
BMC Medicine to host Twitter-chat to discuss how open access publishing impacts medical research...
Earlier this year, BMC Medicine launched the Medicine for Global Health article collection, which aims to explore public health initiatives, health care policies and economics, and research into...
Two leading organisations implement ALMs using PLOS open source app
In 2009, PLOS became the first (and remains the only) publisher to launch anopen source Article-Level Metrics (ALM) app to help other publishers implement ALM...
Frontiers launches new OA journal in Cell and Developmental Biology
Frontiers, one of the fastest-growing open-access scholarly publishers, now part of the Nature Publishing Group family, has launched its Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biologyjournal...
EBSCO Joins OASPA and Awards Conference Scholarship
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has joined the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), which represents the interests of Open Access (OA) journals publishers globally...
Open Access Week Kick-off Speakers Announced
SPARC and the World Bank have announced the speakers for the Open Access Week 2013 kick-off event to be held Monday, October 21, starting...
Concerns over future for Learned and Professional Societies under Open Access
The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) has published its report on the state of the publishing industry, Scholarly Journals Publishing Practice. ...
PeerJ now indexed in CAB Abstracts
PeerJ is pleased to announce that they are now being indexing by CABI for inclusion in their CAB Abstracts database (http://www.cabi.org/publishing-products/online-information-resources/cab-abstracts/).
CABI is a not-for-profit,...
Government mistaken in focusing on Gold as route to full open access, says Committee
The Government’s commitment to increasing access to published research findings, and its desire to achieve full open access, are welcome, says the Business, Innovation...