In December 2001, a small but lively meeting in Budapest, Hungary, launched a whole new international movement. The resulting Budapest Open Access Initiative opened with the words: "An old tradition ...

FIGHTING BACK: Bristling at their portrayal as outmoded, pricey, and unfairly restrictive, 48 nonprofit publishing arms of scientific and medical societies have formed a united front against the ...

The group behind the radical open-access initiative Plan S has announced its next big plan to shake up research publishing — and this one could be bolder than the first. It wants all versions of an ...

In this episode of the The Campus podcast, we talk to two experts—one in the U.S. and one in the U.K.—about open access, the global movement that aims to make research outputs available online ...

MDPI, the Basel-based Open Access (OA) publisher, today announced its renewed publishing agreement with the Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries (CSAL). The year-long partnership grants 24 ...

In the run-up to the presidential election last year, the FBI warned that foreign-backed online journals were likely to spread disinformation about the 2020 elections by disseminating articles with ...

The Open Access Movement is an approach toward research publication gaining momentum. It makes online publications available as soon as they are published, free of cost, without significant copyright ...

In 2020, while preparing for his second-year candidacy exam in Prashant Kamat’s lab at the University of Notre Dame, Jeffrey DuBose hit a wall. He needed to teach himself about some of the techniques ...

In another victory for the open-access movement, the University of California system and Springer Nature have signed an agreement that will allow scholars in the UC system to make their work in Nature ...

The United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library would like to invite you to a keynote address on the past, present and future of Open Access, to be delivered during the International Open Access Week. The ...

If you have searched the Dag Hammarskjöld Library catalogue recently, you may have noticed a new feature: the addition of pink PDFs in your results list which link to the full text of open access ...