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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The open access movement has progressed very slowly over the past few decades. Recent changes to US federal guidelines for grant funding have rejuvenated the conversation around a sustainable open ...

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 page outlines the different ways in which you can make your books and chapters open access as a University of Sheffield staff member or student. Monographs, edited collections and chapters can be ...

Learn how we can help you get the many benefits of open access book publishing. Open access is a publishing model that makes research freely available online for anyone to read, share and reuse.

We support multiple routes to open access for all publications types, allowing you to maximise the impact of your research and meet any funder requirements. Making your journal articles open access at ...

This list has been developed to support University of Sheffield researchers in exploring different options for publishing their monographs open access. It is a non-exhaustive list of publishers, some ...

“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 ...