Learned society owned publisher EDP Sciences has announced the launch of a new multi- and inter-disciplinary open access journal: 4open
As open access policies come into force, UK higher education institutions are racing to meet the mandates. Rebecca Pool reports
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Authors need to be reconnected to the library to make it the starting point for research, argues Robert Lisiecki
Earlier this year, the UK-based Institute for Scientific Information, Clarivate Analytics, published a report called Profiles, not Metrics
Joe Tragert explains how to leverage discovery platforms as information literacy training tools
The mechanisms of scholarly communication are showing their age, writes Daniel Hook
