PRODUCT
4open
30 June 2017
Learned society owned publisher EDP Sciences has announced the launch of a new multi- and inter-disciplinary open access journal: 4open
open access
FEATURE
Rocky road to open access
2 October 2015
As open access policies come into force, UK higher education institutions are racing to meet the mandates. Rebecca Pool reports
INTERVIEW
Making the connections between funder and research
12 December 2014
Howard Ratner is executive director of CHOR Inc, the organisation behind the new CHORUS service in the USA. We ask him what CHORUS is about, what plans he has and his thoughts on open access in general
ANALYSIS & OPINION
UK's OA policy influences research assessment
11 August 2014
The UK's system for assessing research and allocating money has added new open-access requirements. Neil Jacobs looks at what this means for researchers in the UK and elsewhere
ANALYSIS & OPINION
Considering open access: talk from recent webinar
7 March 2014
At the end of last year Research Information editor Sian Harris was guest on a Copyright Clearance Center webinar on open access. She reports on some of the things she discussed
NEWS
Thomson Reuters collaborates with SciELO
24 October 2013
The SciELO Citation Index of cited references from open-access journals from South America and other Ibero-America areas are being integretedinto the Web of Knowledge
NEWS
Sloan Foundation awards grant to develop SHARE OA management initiative
24 October 2013
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has been awarded $50,000 from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation towards development of the SHared Access Research Ecosystem initiative
FEATURE
APCs add complexity to the role of librarians
8 October 2013
Earlier this year SAGE and Jisc organised a librarian roundtable to examine the implications of managing article-processing charges. Siân Harris, who also wrote the report of the event, describes some of the key findings
ANALYSIS & OPINION
APCs add complexity to librarian role
26 September 2013
Earlier this year SAGE and Jisc organised a librarian roundtable to examine the implications of managing article-processing charges. Research Information editor Sian Harris, who also wrote the report of the event, describes some of the key findings
NEWS
University of California adopts OA policy
3 August 2013
Future research articles authored by faculty at all 10 campuses of the University of California will be made available to the public at no charge, thanks to a new policy
Pages
Interview
Danny Kingsley, deputy director at Cambridge University Library, looks back at her early days at Australian National University – and forward to the many challenges facing librarians
Feature
While researchers, publishers and funders warm to data sharing, issues over misuse, citation and credit remain, reports Rebecca Pool