Academic Research, Open Science and Open-Access Publishing

Ongoing debates surrounding Open Access to the scholarly literature are multifaceted and complicated by disparate and often polarised viewpoints fr... (2017)

The web was built specifically to share research papers amongst scientists. Despite this being the first goal of the modern web, most research is s... (2017)

Open access (OA) refers to online research outputs that are free of all restrictions on access (e.g. access tolls) and free of many restrictions on... (2017)

Editor’s note: This post was first published on Wiley’s blog in response to an EdSurge story. "EdSurge published an opinion piece by Stephen Las... (2016)

This page provides information about a lawsuit which was brought against the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation (PGLAF, the organization... (2018)

Some scientists want to change the old-fashioned way scientific advancements are evaluated and communicated. But they have to overcome the power st... (2018)

Negotiations between the publisher and a national consortium of academic institutions have reached a stalemate. (2018)

Anonymous applications free scientists to make bold proposals; ‘golden tickets’ free reviewers to bet on them, says Thomas Sinkjær. (2018)

"Talk to Books" at TED 2018: Ray Kurzweil unveils Google's astounding new search tool will answer any question by reading thousands of books — Quar... (2018)

Academics share machine-learning research freely. Taxpayers should not have to pay twice to read our findings (2018)

Sweden is latest country to hold out on journal subscriptions, while negotiators share tactics to broker new deals with publishers. (2018)

The long read: It is an industry like no other, with profit margins to rival Google – and it was created by one of Britain’s most notorious tycoons... (2017)

University wants scientists to make their research open access and resign from publications that keep articles behind paywalls (2012)

European Commission special envoy Robert-Jan Smits has spearheaded a plan to make all scientific works free to read. (2018)

As Open Access is making ever increasing waves in the academic publishing business, top publishers are determined not to lose their bearing. A Gues... (2017)

MANY scientists have championed the idea that publicly-funded research should be openly available to all, not locked away in pricey journals. This ... (2018)

Science journals are laughing all the way to the bank, locking the results of publicly funded research behind exorbitant paywalls. A campaign to ma... (2018)

By simply requiring that scientists funded by U.S. tax dollars openly share the results of their work, the Trump administration can end the needles... (2020)

People everywhere can now download, remix and share Smithsonian Open Access content for any purpose, for free, from portraits of historic Americans... (2020)

Things ought not to go back to the way they were before (2020)

The data set aims to accelerate scientific research that could fight the Covid-19 pandemic. (2020)

On the podcast we speak with Trevor Bedford, Associate Professor at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, about changes in scientific communi... (2020)

A few months ago, we launched ResearchCoin (RSC) to help build the ResearchHub community. ResearchHub is working to accelerate scientific research ... (2020)

Today, we’re announcing ResearchCoin, a way for users of ResearchHub to be rewarded for contributing content to ResearchHub. ResearchCoin represent... (2020)