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OASPA’s Response To The Recent Article In Science Entitled “Who’s Afraid Of Peer Review?”

Staff Writer | Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) | October 4, 2013

Below is a statement from the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) in response to the recent “sting” that was reported in Science in an article entitled “Who’s Afraid of Peer Review?” Read More »

Obesity And The AMA

Vik Khanna | The Health Care Blog | June 27, 2013

Last week’s announcement by the American Medical Association’s (AMA’s) council on science and public health cheered me. It said that the AMA should not designate obesity a disease, because doing so was unlikely to improve health outcomes and because the most widely utilized obesity metric — the body mass index or BMI — was simplistic and flawed. [...] Read More »

Omics Future On Personalized Medicine, Computer Breeding And Open Platform

Staff Writer | Phys.org | November 4, 2013

As one of the most influential and fruitful annual conference in "Omics", the 8th International Conference on Genomics (ICG-8) was successfully concluded on November 1st with numerous updates provided on on-going research applying today's accurate and affordable technologies to advancing human health and agricultural breeding. [...] Read More »

OMICS Group Declares The Acquisition Of The Journal-Immunome Research

Press Release | OMICS Group | July 25, 2013

OMICS Group Inc., a scientific organization that drives the progress of research through open access journals, announced a landmark agreement with Nikolai Petrovsky Publishing for acquisition of Immunome Research [...]. Read More »

OMICS Group International Stretches Its Horizons By Venturing Into Outsourcing

Press Release | OMICS Group | August 21, 2013

OMICS Group International ties up with 100 global scientific societies and expands partnership with more associations. Read More »

One Size Fits All?: Social Science And Open Access

David Mainwaring | The Disorder of Things | November 14, 2012

The third post in our small series on open access, publication shifts on the horizon and how it all matters to IR and social science, this time by David Mainwaring [...]. Read More »

Open Access And Scientific Breakthroughs

Kamil | Open Science | December 7, 2012

A few days ago, The Chronicle of Higher Education published an article by Peter Suber and Darius Cuplinskas, daringly entitled “Open Access to Scientific Research Can Save Lives”. It relates the case of 15 year-old Jack Andraka, who recently announced he had invented a diagnostic test for pancreatic cancer. Read More »

Open Access And The Direction Of Travel In Scholarly Publishing

Stephen Curry | The Guardian | December 9, 2014

...As the world wide web has wrapped the globe in an ever-tighter network of connections, it has slowly transformed the look and feel of the place, unleashing torrents of data and changing our information culture in ways that we are still figuring out. In the world of research it is interesting to see how established publishers, who built successful businesses by selling journal subscriptions to readers, are bending themselves to fit into the new digital landscape...

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Open Access And The Looming Crisis In Science

Björn Brembs | The Conversation | July 8, 2013

This article on the open access and science by Björn Brembs is part of a series marking the launch of The Conversation in the UK. Our foundation essays are longer than our usual comment and analysis articles and take a wider look at key issues affecting society. Read More »

Open Access Award Recipients Announced

Staff Writer | Wellcome Trust | October 22, 2013

To mark the beginning of Open Access Week, the Accelerating Science Award Programme announced the three recipients of its inaugural award yesterday in Washington, DC. Read More »

Open Access Comes To Africa

Britt E. Erickson | Chemical & Engineering News | December 17, 2012

Hundreds of scholars gathered in Stellenbosch, South Africa, last month to build a stronger case for making the results of scientific research freely accessible worldwide. Calling scientific knowledge the motor of economic development, delegates to the international gathering, the Berlin 10 Conference on Open Access, urged scientists to radically change how they evaluate and communicate their work. Read More »

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 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 Gains Momentum In Washington

Staff Writer | MIT News | April 12, 2013

When MIT faculty adopted an open access (OA) policy for their scholarly articles in March 2009, they expressed a strong philosophical commitment to disseminating "the fruits of their research and scholarship" as widely as possible. The MIT Libraries are paying close attention to recent events in Washington that have the potential to expand this commitment... Read More »