open access

North American universities are leading the world on electronic publishing and open access while European counterparts play catch up, indicates the latest Webometrics survey

A collaboration between the European Association of Research Libraries and the European Digital Repository Research Infrastructure aims to promote open access across Europe

A new policy from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research aims to promote public access to its funded research

Open access proponents launch scathing attack on the Partnership for Research Integrity in Science and Medicine, describing it as an 'anti-open access lobbying organisation'

In a bid to boost publication exposure, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute is to pay the processing charges for articles published by its researchers in BioMed Central's open access journals.

In a bid to drive so-called open access publishing forward, the Swiss National Science Foundation reveals a new directive on open access for SNSF-sponsored researchers

Following 'soaring' article charges, Yale University Science Libraries drop BioMed Central's open access service while the publisher claims it offers 'excellent value for money'

Primary papers in the Journal of Experimental Botany are being published as open access with no article-processing charge if the author's institution subscribes to the journal.