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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Title Page; Contents; Preface; Introduction: Open Divide Emerges as Open Access Unfolds; Part One: Global Issues; Openness as Tool for Acceleration and Measurement: Reflections on Problem ...

Open-access publications can generate significant revenue, despite hesitancy among universities to embrace free and open online access to research, a new report finds. The Association of University ...

“New Journals, Free Online, Let Scholars Speak Out” (The Chronicle, February 14) provided a glimpse of many of the benefits of open-access publishing. It also posited a number of weaknesses with this ...

When scholarship is made freely available, it allows researchers worldwide to engage with it, resulting in a much larger reach and impact. Over the past year, the University of Delaware Library, ...

When Nora Y. Sun ’27 sought to submit her research for publication in the January of her freshman year, she didn’t have the funds. Sun intended to send her work to an open access journal — where ...

Submit your publications, including journal articles, chapters, books, conference papers, presentations, grey literature, etc., to our open access institutional repository: Scholarly Commons @ CWRU.

Frankfurt Book Fair has grown into an event that encompasses so much about the publishing industry, with special events focused on self-publishing and six different exhibit halls dedicated to various ...