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Open Access Empowers 16-Year-Old Jack Andraka To Create Breakthrough Cancer Diagnostic

Staff Writer | Right to Research Coalition | June 11, 2013

Open Access Empowers 16-year-old to Create Breakthrough Cancer Diagnostic: An Interview with Jack Andraka and Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health Read More »

Open Access Explained

Anna Goldstein | Berkeley Science Review | April 4, 2013

The conversation about scientific publishing has exploded lately, online, in print and in person. Last week, the journal Nature released a special issue called The future of publishing. Also last week, Michael Eisen [...] posted a speech he gave on the past and projected future of scholarly communication in the age of the Internet. I want to start there, because his remarks were thorough and persuasive, and they inspired me to think differently about the issue... Read More »

Open Access In EU Finally On The Horizon?

Ivan Filis | The Political Bouillon | November 13, 2012

Dis­cus­sions on the cost of access to art­icles in schol­arly journ­als have been  rock­ing the inter­na­tional media in the past months – every­where from the Eco­nom­ist to the New York Times. The pro­ver­bial genie has left the bottle, every­day more research­ers, stu­dents, and poli­cy­makers are real­iz­ing how unsus­tain­able today’s way of pub­lish­ing research has become... Read More »

Open Access In Science [Imperial College-London]

Henry Rzepa | Imperial College | October 3, 2012

With Open Access Week 2012 taking place from 22–28 October, Henry Rzepa, Professor of Computational Chemistry, discusses the importance of open access journals in science. Read More »

Open Access Is Not The Problem – My Take On Science’s Peer Review “Sting”

Michael Eisen | The Berkeley Blog | October 4, 2013

In 2011, after having read several really bad papers in the journal Science, I decided to explore just how slipshod their peer-review process is. I knew that their business depends on publishing “sexy” papers. So I created a manuscript that claimed something extraordinary - that I’d discovered a species of bacteria that uses arsenic in its DNA instead of phosphorus. [...] Read More »

Open Access Journals And Healthcare Information: Indexing And Archiving

Press Release | OMICS Group International | August 30, 2013

The main function of peer reviewed open access publishing platforms is to powerfully present the content online, making it available to all, and link this information with useful scientific data... Read More »

Open Access Meeting Reflections—SPARC 2012

Abby Clobridge | Information Today, Inc | March 26, 2012

Ten years after the movement was launched through the Budapest Open Access Initiative, open access (OA) is thriving, flourishing, and becoming a core element in the broader “Open Knowledge” movement that includes Open Educational Resources (OER), Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), Open Data, and Open Science among others, all of which share the common goals of providing free, unrestricted access to different types of information and knowledge. Read More »

Open Access Negotiations Between Dutch Universities and Elsevier Collapse

Press Release | VSNU | November 4, 2014

Negotiations between the Dutch universities and publishing company Elsevier on subscription fees and Open Access have ground to a halt...the universities want academic publications to be freely accessible. To that end, agreements will have to be made with the publishers. The proposal presented by Elsevier last week totally fails to address this inevitable change...

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Open Access Pitch For Life Science Elite

Bernard Lane | The Australian | December 22, 2012

BETTER models of proteins, the mathematics of malaria, and an enzyme that detects foreign DNA are among the first contents of a new life sciences journal that marks another chapter in the open access story. Read More »

Open Access Publishing: A Literature Review

Giancarlo F. Frosio | CREATe | January 1, 2014

Within the context of the Centre for Copyright and New Business Models in the Creative Economy (CREATe) research scope, this literature review investigates the current trends, advantages, disadvantages, problems and solutions, opportunities and barriers in Open Access Publishing (OAP), and in particular Open Access (OA) academic publishing. Read More »

Open Access Resources at University of Kashmir

Ghulam Jeelani Shah, Ishtiyaq Hussain Bhat, and Mohammad Ishaq Lone | Greater Kashmir Srinagar | December 26, 2012

No library can afford to subscribe to every scientific publication and most can only afford a small fraction of them. The Open Access movement believes it can solve this problem to a great extent. Read More »

Open Access Science Publisher Demands Full Availability Of Data

John Timmer | Ars Technica | February 25, 2014

If you publish in PLoS, be prepared to share all the underlying data. Read More »

Open Access To Be Celebrated Next Week [Washington University]

Staff Writer | Washington University | October 17, 2012

The Washington University Faculty Senate recently adopted a formal open access resolution that places renewed focus on the dissemination of new knowledge and asks WUSTL faculty to seek out publishers that share a vision of broad digital access to scholarly information. Read More »

Open Access To Research Publications Reaching 'Tipping Point'

Press Release | Science-Metrix, European Commission (EC) | August 21, 2013

The global shift towards making research findings available free of charge for readers—so-called 'open access'—was confirmed today in a study funded by the European Commission. This new research suggests that open access is reaching the tipping point, with around 50% of scientific papers published in 2011 now available... Read More »

Open Access To Science Helps Us All

Dave Carr and Robert Kiley | New Statesman | April 13, 2012

[...] However, in recent years there has been a growing recognition that the traditional subscription-based access models are not serving the best interests of the research community, and a growing movement to support open-access publishing – in which research papers are freely available to all at the point of use. Read More »