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 ...

The movement toward Open Access (OA) is now more than two decades in the making. It arrived in response to the rising costs of journal articles and other scholarly materials. These high costs have ...

Correction: The original version of this article incorrectly stated that Dennis Ventry Jr. was the Vice Chair of the Academic Senate University Committee on Library and Scholarly Communication. In ...

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 ...

Open access is the principle that publicly funded information should be publicly and freely available to all without paywall restrictions on reuse, remixing and re-sharing, so long as the original ...