The UK government has “widely accepted” the recommendations of a major report into open-access publishing that was released in June by a 15-strong working group led by the British sociologist Janet ...

The British government has rejected most of the recommendations by a parliamentary committee that favors making the results of state-supported scientific research freely available. The committee ...

The British government has rejected most of the recommendations by a parliamentary committee that favors making the results of state-supported scientific research freely available. The committee ...

When scholarship is made freely available, it allows researchers worldwide to engage with it, resulting in a much larger reach and impact. Over the past year, the University of Delaware Library, ...

The American Astronomical Society (AAS) and 15 other major physics-related professional societies, which together support researchers with the publication of more than 75,000 peer-reviewed journal ...

MIT Press published its first open-access book in 1995, but leaders of the university press are still trying to figure out the best way to make more scholarly books available to the public for free.

What do we mean by open access? Open access (OA) publishing is a scholarly research model that provides unrestricted access and digital reuse rights to high-quality academic research, articles and ...

In the debate over "open access" to scholarly research, the Association of American University Presses has weighed in on the "anti" side of things, backing legislation that would end a federal ...

Until further notice, the Library is unable approve new open access APC funding requests. Please consider submitting research to a publisher with whom we have a open access publishing agreement. The ...

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 ...

The University of Delaware Library is encouraging members of the campus community to join colleagues around the world in marking International Open Access Week, Oct. 24-28. Steps people can take to ...

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