By transitioning to open access, ACM is supporting a publishing environment where: Authors retain the intellectual property ...

The California Digital Library launched a new project this month to support open-access publishing. Arcadia, a charitable fund started by philanthropists Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, is funding ...

Until further notice, the Library is unable approve new open access APC funding requests. Please consider submitting research to a publisher with whom we have a open access publishing agreement. The ...

In academe, ideas cost money. But how much? Advocates for open-access journals say that academic research should be free for everyone to read. But even those proponents acknowledge that publishing ...

As informal conversations continue with Elsevier, what’s been the impact so far? Amid cordial negotiations, Wiley and Springer Nature extend access past contract expirations 2 new agreements provide ...

There’s a new resource for librarians looking for high-quality, open-access library and information science research, There’s a new resource for librarians looking for high-quality, open-access ...

An online access project has given Yale Law School faculty broader readership than ever before. The Law School Library added roughly 3,000 faculty-published scholarly articles from legal journals to ...

I posted an admittedly rather cranky bit of finger-shaking at Library Journal’s Peer to Peer Review last week chiding academic librarians who can’t be bothered to make their work open access. It seems ...

Hope faculty affirms the core value of the college “to contribute to the body of knowledge in the academic disciplines” 1 with a vision “to pursue truth so as to renew the mind, enrich the disciplines ...

“This might be too geeky for a column,” said the subject line of a reader's email, “but just in case …” It sounded like a challenge, and I took the bait. The topic in question? A new statistical ...

Researchers at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and the Institute of Photonic Sciences have created a Raman spectral ...

A council in Dorset is hoping to bring swipe-card access to some of its libraries in a bid to encourage more library use by ...