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'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 »

Frontiers Launches A New Open-Access Journal In Energy Research

Press Release | About NPG | August 29, 2013

Frontiers, one of the largest and fastest-growing open-access scholarly publishers, now part of the Nature Publishing Group family, will launch its Frontiers in Energy Research journal today... Read More »

Nature Communications Goes Open Access

Liat Clark | WIRED UK | September 23, 2014

Nature Communications has announced it will go open access only from 20 October in a bid to show the world that quality papers do not have to be paid for...

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Nature Publishing Group Builds On Success In China With New Open Access Journal

Press Release | Nature Publishing Group, Cell Research | November 18, 2014

Nature Publishing Group has cemented its partnership with the Shanghai Institute for Biological Sciences (SIBS) by renewing the contract for Cell Research for a second time and by launching a new open access journal, Cell Discovery. Cell Discovery will be China's first broad-spectrum life science open access journal...

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Nature Publishing Group Releases Open-Access Article Containing Next Generation Epigenetics Drug Target Dashboard Powered By Relay Technology Management

Press Release | Relay Technology Management, Nature Publishing Group (NPG) | February 1, 2013

Relay Technology Management Inc. is pleased to announce that a series of six articles featuring Relay Innovation Engine-powered interactive dashboards will be published open-access in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery. 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 Papers ‘Gain More Traffic And Citations’

Paul Jump | Times Higher Education | July 30, 2014

Open access science articles are read and cited more often than articles available only to subscribers, a study has suggested.

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Researchers Opt To Limit Uses Of Open-Access Publications

Richard Van Noorden | Nature | February 6, 2013

Academics are — slowly — adopting the view that publicly funded research should be made freely available. But data released yesterday suggest that, given the choice, even researchers who publish in open-access journals want to place restrictions on how their papers can be re-used — for example, sold by others for commercial profit. Read More »

Top Scientific Publisher Chooses Not To Advance Open Access

Jon Tennant | The Conversation | September 3, 2014

Access to research is limited worldwide by the high cost of subscription journals, which force readers to pay for their content. The use of scientific research in new studies, educational material and news is often restricted by these publishers, who require authors to sign over their rights and then control what is done with the published work...

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