Open Access

Plan S is a trending term in academia. With the concept of open access gaining ground, both the research community and the publishers are concerned with the Plan S coming into…

You can also listen to this article as an audio recording. As researchers, publishing our work is important for two main reasons. It helps us gain recognition for doing…

You can also listen to this article as an audio recording. Plan S is an exciting development for the research community. So what exactly is Plan S? The key goal of Plan S…

You can also listen to this article as an audio recording. Learned societies have been under pressure for some time. While traditionally, most societies have relied on a…

IntechOpen announced the publication of the first title in its Women in Science 2018 Book Collection. This open access book is the first of the winning titles to go live online and…

Open access (OA) is a publishing model gaining in popularity. In the last five years, there has been a strong push from many major institutions to shift partially or fully to open…

Free access to research is essential to the growth of a field. It allows all researchers – including those who cannot afford journal subscriptions – access to information. This…

Not many open-access scientific journals meet the draft Plan S requirements. This initiative by European funders aims to make the research they fund freely and immediately…

Whether or not open access is a viable model for the future is a topic of hot debate. The current standoff between Elsevier and a number of European institutions is one example of…

Over the last several years, the push to shift to an open access model of publishing has been growing. As part of this trend, numerous major research and academic institutions in…