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Faculty Research Shared Through OpenEmory Reaches Milestones

Staff Writer | Emory University (EU) | October 21, 2013

OpenEmory, the open access repository for faculty-authored published research articles at Emory University, celebrated its one-year anniversary in September, and as of Oct. 3, surpassed 1,800 articles uploaded to the site and has logged 9,912 article downloads. Read More »

Four Ways Open Access Enhances Academic Freedom

Curt Rice | The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) | April 30, 2013

Are politicians stealing our academic freedom? Is their fetish with open access publishing leading to a “pay to say” system for the rich? Will the trendy goal of making publicly financed research freely available skew the world of scholarship even more in the direction of the natural sciences? I don’t think so. But it took me a while to get there. Read More »

Free Availability Of Knowledge – Open Access At DLR

Marco Trovatello | DLR | October 16, 2013

International Open Access Week will be held from 21 to 27 October 2013. Universities, libraries, research centres and government institutions around the world will join in events and activities to demonstrate the benefits and advantages of open access, the principle of unrestricted availability of scientific results, and to promote experience, inspiration and participation. [...] Read More »

Free Papers Have Reached A Tipping Point, Study Claims

Jocelyn Kaiser | Science | August 20, 2013

Efforts to give the public free access to peer-reviewed papers have reached a milestone: One-half of all papers are now freely available within a year or two of publication, concludes a study funded by the European Commission and released today. [...] Read More »

Free Papers Have Reached A Tipping Point, Study Claims

Jocelyn Kaiser | Science | August 20, 2013

Efforts to give the public free access to peer-reviewed papers have reached a milestone: One-half of all papers are now freely available within a year or two of publication, concludes a study funded by the European Commission and released today. [...] Read More »

Frontiers Is Featured In The Prestigious Nature Magazine

Press Release | Frontiers | July 7, 2013

Frontiers, a community driven open-access publisher and research networking platform for scientists, is featured on the inside cover of this week's Nature, with endorsements from Nobel laureates and other leading researchers. [...] 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 »

Frontiers Launches New Open-Access Journal: Frontiers In Pediatrics

Press Release | Frontiers | December 21, 2012

Frontiers, one of the world's fastest growing open-access publishers, announced today the launch of its new online journal in Pediatrics: Frontiers in Pediatrics. Read More »

Fund Helps Emory Authors Get Published

Lisa Macklin and Maureen McGavin | Emory University (EU) | July 10, 2013

The Emory University Open Access (OA) Publishing Fund helped Emory University researchers publish four articles in scholarly open access journals this year, and the plan is to assist even more authors in the coming months. Read More »

Greece promotes Open Access Week 2012

Staff Writer | OpenAIRE | November 9, 2012

The National Documentation Centre of Greece (EKT) participated in the Open Access Week by hosting a series of events - informative sessions and seminars - which aimed to broaden understanding and raise awareness of open access issues. Read More »

Guest Blog: Why I Publish Open Access

Simon Herald | BioMed Central | December 6, 2012

Joshua Drew, a lecturer in marine conservation biology at Columbia University, offers a personal perspective on Open Access publishing from a researcher’s point of view. Having now moved to a policy of publishing entirely in Open Access journals, he talks to BioMed Central about the benefits that this can bring to researchers wishing to get the most from their publications, together with some of the challenges that lie ahead Read More »

Half Of 2011 Papers Now Free To Read

Richard Van Noorden | Nature | August 20, 2013

Search the Internet for any research article published in 2011, and you have a 50–50 chance of downloading it for free. [...] The finding, released on 21 August, is heartening news for advocates of open access. But some experts are raising their eyebrows at the high numbers. Read More »

Heather Joseph On The State Of Open Access: Where Are We, What Still Needs To Be Done?

Richard Poynder | Open and Shut? | July 12, 2013

This is the fourth Q&A in a series exploring the current state of Open Access (OA). On this occasion the questions are answered by Heather Joseph. Read More »

High-Quality Science Benefits All

Alexander Brown | ICT Update | June 27, 2013

Open access publishing can help researchers in the developing world to participate more actively in the scientific community. Alexander Brown from Springer shares his experience. Read More »

Highlighting The Best Open Access Research: BioMed Central’s 7th Annual Research Awards

Rebecca Fairbairn | BioMed Central | November 15, 2012

It’s that time of year again! Nominations are open for you to put forward your favorite BioMed Central open access research article for our seventh annual Research Awards. Articles must be published in one of our 240 plus BioMed Central journals, during 2012 to qualify. Read More »