As more academic journals adopt an open access (OA) approach to publishing, more high-quality research is available for free—and public libraries are well poised to help their patrons and their ...

The high cost of publishing open access has plagued researchers for years, but a dedicated group of Harvard scientists and librarians are fighting to alleviate the costs of publishing.

Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP) Council said access to libraries is so important to so many people. Last year, more ...

What do we mean by open access? Open access (OA) publishing is a scholarly research model that provides unrestricted access and digital reuse rights to high-quality academic research, articles and ...

Critics say a directive to make federally funded research immediately free to the public could violate authors’ copyrights. It could also disrupt the $19 billion academic publishing industry. Even as ...

When Galadriel Chilton was an undergraduate English major at Berea College in Kentucky, she remembers asking a reference librarian for help on a project. Instead of going to the bookstacks, the ...

Chandigarh: PU's department of library and information science organised the International Open Access Week from Oct 20 to 26 ...

Research led by the Monterey Bay Aquarium and MBARI (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute) provides a new open-access Raman spectral library that can be used to detect molecular "fingerprints" of ...