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Academics Urge Peers To Self-Publish Research

Benedicte Page | The Bookseller | January 11, 2013

Academics are looking to their own Open Access ventures to create new spaces for monograph publishing, a conference on OA in the humanities and social sciences heard last week. Read More »

Access To Research Comes At A Price

Chris Flegg | Financial Times | October 23, 2013

In 2008, the Sainsbury Library at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, with a number of specially selected libraries, was “invited” to take part in a “pilot” to pay EBSCO, the journal aggregator, an additional amount of money for the privilege of using URLs to point to Harvard content contained in our existing subscriptions. The Sainsbury Library refused... Read More »

Action Plan Towards Open Access Publications - Global Research Council

Staff Writer | OpenAIRE | June 6, 2013

Those were the three key points set out in an Action Plan during the annual Global Research Council Summit held in Berlin on 27 - 29 May 2013.  Heads of 70 global science and research councils gathered. Discussions focused in particular on open access. Read More »

After Ten Years Of Publishing, What’s Next For PLOS?

David Knutson | PLOS.org | January 24, 2013

At our ten year mark as a publisher of Open Access journals, PLOS announces a year-long series of events to recognize and advance the innovations brought about through the adoption of Open Access publishing. These activities will target both the scientific  community and the public at large. Read More »

An Academic Spring?

Barbara Fister | American Libraries Magazine | April 4, 2012

A successful protest against Elsevier demonstrates that populist rebellions have a place within the information-sharing community. Read More »

Berlin 'Open Access' Conference Recap

Abby Clobridge | Information Today | November 15, 2012

As open access (OA) and other “open” movements become more of a part of the mainstream consciousness, conversations surrounding OA continue to evolve—moving from whether OA is a good approach to far more provocative questions such as, how do we move past the legacies of the print publication world and what is a journal in today’s environment? Read More »

Boycott Of Publishing Giant Elsevier Gathers Pace

Zane Schwartz | The Varsity | September 10, 2012

Frustrated by what they call an exploitative business model and unreasonable prices, researchers at [University of Toronto] have joined a growing movement asking: how much must we pay for knowledge?
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Buying Book Chapters Like Music Tracks, And What’s Wrong With Traditional Peer Review Anyway? A Conversation With Duke University Press, Part Two.

Adeline Koh | The Chronicle of Higher Education | April 17, 2013

This is part 2 of the ninth interview in a series by Adeline Koh entitled Digital Challenges to Academic Publishing. Each article in this series features an interview with an academic publisher, press or journal editor on how their organization is changing in response to the digital world. Read More »

Canada May Be Nearing The Open Access "Tipping Point"

Michael Geist | Michael Geist | October 24, 2013

[...] While it has captured limited attention outside of educational circles, the Internet has facilitated the emergence of open access publishing of research, transforming the multi-billion dollar academic publishing industry and making millions of articles freely accessible to a global audience. Read More »

Chipping Into The Debate On Open Access

Haidy Geismar | Material World | December 2, 2013

As the incoming co-editor of the Journal of Material Culture, as well as one of the editors here at Material World Blog, I have been involved in many conversations regarding the politics, economics, and materiality of Open Access. Read More »

Copyright Clearance Center Hosts Open Access Forum In London

Press Release | Copyright Clearance Center | March 19, 2013

Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a not-for-profit organization and leading provider of licensing and Open Access solutions, hosted “A Copyright Clearance Center Roundtable: Open Access Publishing and the Role of Intermediaries.” Read More »

Critics Say Sting On Open-Access Journals Misses Larger Point

Paul Basken | The Chronicle of Higher Education | October 4, 2013

Perhaps months from now, when the dust settles and academics really look back at it, they’ll find some hard lessons in the elaborate Science magazine exposé this week by the journalist John Bohannon. Read More »

CSIR To Create Open Access Repositories

Staff Writer | The New Indian Express | March 16, 2013

In a bid to break the monopoly of publishers quoting exorbitant rates to grant electronic resources for research, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is now creating an ‘open access repository’ of its own papers. Read More »

Death Of An Open-Access Activist

Martin Khor | The Star | January 21, 2013

The tragic suicide of a well-known Internet open-access advocate has sparked protests against the highly protected system that limits public access to knowledge. Read More »

Debating Open Access

Stephen Curry | Reciprocal Space | July 1, 2013

Twelve months after the publication of the Finch Report, during which the new RCUK policy on open access has been published, dissected, debated (including by committees in both Houses of Parliament), revised and implemented, it seems an apposite moment to step back and take stock. Read More »