Tilting the balance back towards libraries
7 May 2021
Jason Priem tells of his hopes for a ‘long-overdue’ change in academic publishing
James Gray assesses the situation and how it can be addressed
open access
Is a software revolution on the cards?
11 March 2020
The open-access movement is calling into question business models in scholarly publishing, writes Sami Benchekroun
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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Matt Balara explains how an established publisher, De Gruyter, completed an extraordinary transformation
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From rapid disease information to a way to promote and share regional knowledge in multiple languages, preprints have come into their own in recent years. Siân Harris finds out more
Céline Richard
Céline Richard explains what the Large Hadron Collider has taught us about the importance of open access research
Ivy Cavendish
Ivy Cavendish tells the inspirational tale behind the formation of a writing tool for researchers, TooWrite
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There is a continuing need for the sorts of insights and judgements that only a person can bring, writes David Stuart
Tasha Mellins-Cohen
COUNTER reports have an integral role to play in our wider scholarly communication system, writes Tasha Mellins-Cohen
Tony Roche
Emerald Publishing CEO Tony Roche talks of his career in scholarly publishing and a love of eastern cuisine
Alicia Wise
Alicia Wise, CLOCKSS executive director, reflects on her career and explains the importance of robustly preserving academic resources
Heather Staines
Heather Staines sums up proceedings at this year's Researcher to Reader conference
