open access publications

See the following -

OMICS Group is the Publisher of 14 Nobel Laureates Supporting Cellular and Molecular Biology : 60 Years Old Reputed Medline Indexed Journal

Press Release | OMICS Group International | October 14, 2013

Dean Dr. Raymond J. Wegmann, the founding editor of Cellular and Molecular Biology signed agreement at OMICS Office and stated that, "OMICS Publishing Group is a better publisher than any other publishing house." Read More »

"Predatory" Open-Access Scientific Journals Threaten Academic Reputations

Aimee Hosler | CityTownInfo.com | April 9, 2013

On the World Wide Web where virtually anyone can publish almost anything, it can be difficult to validate the authority of information and sources. Now, as the worlds of traditional scholarly publishing and open access (OA) journals intersect, it may be more difficult than ever. Read More »

'Open Access' Science Journals Continue to Expand

John Timmer | Ars Technica | April 24, 2013

To help speed the flow of scientific information, the National Institutes of Health has mandated a policy where any papers derived from research it funds are made public within a year of their publication... Read More »

'Open Access' Tributes To Aaron Swartz

Caleb Garling | San Francisco Chronicle | January 14, 2013

The suicide of hacker and digital activist Aaron Swartz has prompted academics from around the globe to post their research online for free, and led the university involved in Swartz's prosecution to launch an investigation into its own role in events leading to his death. Read More »

12 Ideas To Improve Development Research Access And Uptake

Anna Scott | Guardian | June 24, 2013

Our expert panel suggests how to ensure that research is open, accessible and still of high quality Read More »

4 Leading International Wiley Journals Become Open Access

Press Release | John Wiley & Sons, Inc. | October 22, 2013

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., today announced the transition of four journals to the Wiley Open Access publishing program, bringing the total number of Wiley's open access titles to 28. Read More »

5 Annoying Things About Open Access

Anna Kinsey | Europe PubMed Central | October 21, 2013

To start, I should say that all at Europe PMC support Open Access. This is just a short list of some issues that can be frustrating… Read More »

A Big Step Forward: Subterranean Biology Journal Moves To Advanced Open Access Publishing

Press Release | Pensoft Publishers | April 30, 2013

Subterranean Biology now fully joins the peer reviewed open access family of journals published by Pensoft Publishers, who also publish ZooKeys, PhytoKeys and others. Read More »

A Couple Of Open Access Week Events

Eric Lease Morgan | Days in the Life of a Librarian | November 17, 2012

A couple of Open Access Week events were sponsored here at Notre Dame on October 31, and this posting summarizes my experiences. Read More »

A Simple Definition For Open Access: A Proposal To Open The Discussion

Heather Morrison | The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics | January 8, 2013

This post proposes a shift from the detailed BBB definition of open access to Peter Suber's brief definition, as follows: Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions (from Suber's Open Access Overview). Read More »

A Troubling Result From Publishing Open Access Articles With CC-BY

Christina Hendricks | You're The Teacher | August 31, 2013

For week four of the Why Open? course, we are looking at potential benefits of openness, as well as potential problems with it. There are many, many interesting stories and case studies listed on that part of the course, and I’m still working through looking at them (I’m interested in them all!). Read More »

A World Of Open Access

Alasdair Rae | Under The Radar | November 26, 2013

[Few] people have looked closely at the data on open access; probably because most people are still in debate about the merits and pitfalls of open access itself. The simple fact is that open access publishing is having a major impact on academia and the biggest journal in the world (by volume of papers) is now PLoS ONE, an open access title [...]. Read More »

AAAS Launches Open-Access Journal

David Malakoff | Science | February 12, 2014

Joining a herd of other scientific societies, today AAAS (publisher of ScienceInsider) announced that it will launch the organization’s first online, fully open-access journal early next year. The new journal, called Science Advances, will give authors another outlet for papers that they are willing to pay to make immediately free to the public. Read More »

Academic Publisher Versita Launches Open Access Book Series With Inaugural Title By Oleg Tarnopolsky

Press Release | EurekAlert! | January 23, 2013

Understanding that books continue to play a vital role as educational materials for students and practitioners, Versita is committed to bringing back the academic monograph alongside more equitable distribution of knowledge Read More »

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 »