Open Access is academic publications that are free to read and often have various re-use rights utilizing Creative Commons licenses. Research can be Open Access through publishing or archiving. Open ...

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 ...

Open access refers to free, unrestricted online access to research outputs such as journal articles and books. Open access content is open to all, with no access fees. For more information about open ...

The COVID-19 pandemic fueled a mass push toward digitizing just about everything, from e-books to online courses. That trickled down to the scholarly publishing industry, most notably making journal ...

The movement toward Open Access (OA) is now more than two decades in the making. It arrived in response to the rising costs of journal articles and other scholarly materials. These high costs have ...

The open-access (OA) movement seeks to make research more widely accessible by moving away from the traditional subscription-based model for academic journals. But as many publishers introduce article ...

Brianne Selman is on the Canadian Federation of Library Associations Copyright Committee. Mark Swartz does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding ...

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 ...

Lucy Montgomery receives funding from the Arcadia Fund, which supports work to preserve endangered cultural heritage, protect endangered ecosystems, and promote access to knowledge. She also receives ...

In the past 13 years, open access publishing—in which academic journal content is free for anyone to read online—has moved from a fringe populist movement into the mainstream. Immediate open access ...

Submit your publications, including journal articles, chapters, books, conference papers, presentations, grey literature, etc., to our open access institutional repository: Scholarly Commons @ CWRU.