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Review Of Open Access In Economics

Ross Mounce | Open Knowledge Foundation | October 30, 2012

Ever since BioMed Central (BMC) published its first free online article on July 19th 2000, the Open Access movement has made significant progress, so much so that many different stakeholders now see 100% Open Access to research as inevitable in the near future. Read More »

Riled Up By Elsevier’s Take-Downs? Time To Embrace Open Access

Alex O. Holcombe | The Conversation | December 12, 2013

The publishing giant Elsevier owns much of the world’s academic knowledge, in the form of article copyright. In the past few weeks it has stepped up enforcement of its property rights, issuing “take-down notices” to Academia.edu, where many researchers post PDFs of their articles. Read More »

RIP, Aaron Swartz, And Why Open-Access Matters

Karla Starr | Psychology Today | January 15, 2013

Last week, 26-year-old Aaron Swartz hanged himself. Swartz was a champion of open everything: open access code, open access journals, and fought for a utopian version of the internet. In that utopian version of the internet, people have access to information, and freedom of speech trumps SOPA and other draconian copyright laws... Read More »

Roy Kaufman: Shifting Revenues From Post-Publication To Pre-Publication: The Impact Of Open Access

Roy Kaufman | Association of Learned & Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) | March 27, 2014

Roy Kaufman, Managing Director of New Ventures at Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), writes here in a guest post about the shift of revenue to pre-publication and what that means to publishers. Read More »

RSNA Launches International COVID-19 Open Radiology Database

Press Release | Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), RSNA COVID-19 AI Task Force | June 25, 2020

The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) and the RSNA COVID-19 AI Task Force today announced the launch of the RSNA International COVID-19 Open Radiology Database (RICORD). RICORD is envisioned as the largest open database of anonymized COVID-19 medical images in the world. More than 200 institutions around the world have expressed their interest in participating. The database will include supporting clinical information and expert annotations. It will be freely available to the global research and education communities.

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Rutgers Chemistry Professor Helen Berman To Receive Benjamin Franklin Award For Open Access In The Life Sciences

Staff Writer | Rutgers | March 25, 2014

Helen M. Berman, Rutgers University Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB) and the Center for Integrative Proteomics Research, has been selected to receive the Benjamin Franklin Award for Open Access in the Life Sciences from Bioinformatics.org, also known as The Bioinformatics Organization, Inc.

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Sage Commons Congress 2012

Matthew Todd | Intermolecular | April 24, 2012

I was at the Sage Commons Congress the last few days. Meetings should be full of challenging new ideas and full of spontaneous discussion. [...] This congress was very interesting, driven by the passion of those people taking part to do science in new ways. Read More »

SAGE Reduces Processing Fee For Open Access Journal

David Nagel | Campus Technology | January 24, 2013

SAGE has significantly lowered the processing fee it charges to scholars who submit papers to its open access journal, SAGE Open. Read More »

SAGE's Open Access Medicine And Engineering Journals: Now Open For Submissions

Press Release | EurekAlert! | October 24, 2012

SAGE today announced that all three of their latest open access journals are now open for submissions – SAGE Open Medicine, SAGE Open Medical Case Reports and SAGE Open Engineering. Read More »

SCFD Funds Open Access For Arts Lovers

Megan Quinn | Broomfield Enterprise | February 10, 2013

Taxes paid by Broomfield residents, others in seven-county district, provide free entry at facilities across state
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Sciedu Press: Open Access - The Trend Of Scholarly Publishing

Press Release | Sciedu Press , IEEE, FDA | August 28, 2014

Sciedu Press is a scientific publishing house and completely private. They publish various researches from around the globe in the fields of education, science, and culture, which include educational and scientific books along with scholarly journals. Sciedu Press specializes in research journal publications covering fields pertaining to medicine, sciences, engineering, social sciences, management, and business...

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SciELO Announces Open Access eBook Collection From Brazil

Sue Polanka | No Shelf Required | March 15, 2013

Last Fall, I wrote about the SciELO ebook collection for Open Access Week. I just received this official press release announcing the collection of 300 open access ebooks from Brazil. The press release is also available in Espanol and Portugues. Read More »

Science Europe Denounces ‘Hybrid’ Open Access

Ross Mounce | Open Knowledge Foundation Blog | May 2, 2013

Recently Science Europe published a clear and concise position statement titled: Principles on the Transition to Open Access to Research Publications. This is an extremely timely & important document that clarifies what governments and research funders should expect during the transition to open access. Read More »

Science Wins As PLoS Goes Hard On Open Access

Olivia Solon | Wired | February 25, 2014

Academic journal PLoS (Public Library of Science) has changed its policy so that authors are now required to make the data underlying their scientific findings available publicly, without restriction, immediately upon publication of the article. Read More »

Scientific Articles Accepted (Personal Checks, Too)

Gina Kolata | New York Times | April 7, 2013

The scientists who were recruited to appear at a conference called Entomology-2013 thought they had been selected to make a presentation to the leading professional association of scientists who study insects. Read More »