Who Benefits From Open Access?
A recent article in F1000 Research reviewed the impact of open access publishing. Open access makes it possible for anyone to read academic research. Traditional journal…
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Can Open Access Become Sustainable?
The number of open access publications has increased considerably during the last few years resulting from improved internet usage and the wish to make science more transparent and…
Preprints: Does Publishing Research Early Have a Downside?
In biology, a debate has erupted over using preprints to share your research article early online, before undergoing a formal peer review at a journal. The preprint is posted on a…
Can Toll-Free Links Improve Access to Academic Research?
Major publishers, like Elsevier, benefit from robust online manuscript access. Meanwhile, the research community prefers sharing their research. When articles are posted to…
The Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) Continues to Receive Increased Support From Publishers
Open citation refers to the practice of making papers in a reference list accessible. Open citations use a common, machine-readable format. The listed papers can be accessed…
Asia Open Access Survey: A Report on Publication Accessibility
Asia’s presence in science has become prominent with the increasing investment in research and development. This advancement has equally increased the scientific publication…
What Is Really Driving the Preprint Trend? 4 Key Factors in Its Success
Academic publishing has long relied upon a simple approach. Write the manuscript, ask a few colleagues for comments on it, and then submit it to a journal for peer review.…
Microsoft, Google, & Baidu Join Forces on Open Academic Search
The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) in Seattle was created by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen with the mission of providing the latest findings in artificial…
A Guide to Self-Archiving for Young Research Scientists
Openly available science is becoming increasingly lauded. As publication fees for open access journals and subscription cost skyrocket, self-archiving has become a trend and for…
ScienceFair: Research Literature Reimagined
ScienceFair is a new program built on the idea that access to the scholarly literature should be independent of the influence of large publishers. In some cases, the platforms that…
Open Research Gets a Boost from Scholarly Commons
The process of research seems simple from the outside: read, experiment, publish, and repeat. Yet, paywalls formed by national or cultural groups is a barrier to scholarly…
OpenCon 2017: Advancing Open Access, Open Education, and Open Data
Scientific research generates an immense amount of data. It is critical to not only make this data available to research community but also use it to decide on the next…