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Open access refers to free, unrestricted online access to research outputs such as journal articles and books. Open access content is open to all, with no access fees. For more information about open ...

T he open-access policies now being adopted by governments around the world, most notably in the U.S., the U.K., and the E.U., are designed to remove paywalls from the publication of publicly funded ...

Academic publisher Springer Nature unveiled a model today under which it will allow open-access publishing for researchers submitting to its prominent Nature journal and 32 primary research journals ...

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 ...

Open Access to information, or the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use those results as needed, plays a crucial role in making advances ...

The open-access (OA) movement seeks to make research more widely accessible by moving away from the traditional subscription-based model for academic journals. But as many publishers introduce article ...

Canada’s federal research granting agencies recently announced a review of the Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications, with the goal of requiring immediate open and free access to all academic ...

The UMass Lowell Open Access Publishing Fund (OAPF) is a partnership between the Office of Sustainability and the UMass Lowell University Library. The OAPF is designed to engage, encourage and enable ...

For all its faults, 2020 appears to have locked in momentum for the open access movement. But it is time to ask whether providing free access to published research is enough – and whether equitable ...

There are two components to this presentation. The first focuses on the relevance of open-access publishing in developing countries; the potential for open-access publishing in India; and a few ...

Nigerian university librarians raise alarms over the rise of predatory journals and unethical publishing practices ...