Does 'commercial' have to be a dirty word?
7 June 2012
Meeting author and reader needs is more important than business-model choice, writes David Armstrong
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Opening up e-book access
7 June 2012
From scholar-led initiatives to commercial publishing programmes, the topic of open-access e-books is emerging from the shadows. Siân Harris investigates
UK minister backs sustainable open access
8 May 2012
The UK's minister of state for universities and science has spoken in favour of sustainable open access
New tool searches UK's repositories
6 October 2011
A new search engine should help academics, students and the general public navigate papers held in the UK's open-access repositories
Public more concerned about quality than access
17 August 2011
Sense about Science aims to help the public understand scientific results. Sian Harris asked Leonor Sierra of the organisation about how important open access is to the general public
Anticipating OA growth
17 August 2011
Jason Wilde of Nature Publishing Group reveals some of the challenges of the open-access publishing model for journals with high rejection rates
An exciting mix
17 August 2011
Alicia Wise has been a researcher, worked with JISC in negotiating access deals and now works for Elsevier. She shares her experiences of access to research resources in these different roles
The lone publisher - in search of silver
17 August 2011
John Murphy shares his experiences of attempting to launch an open-access journal
Programme brings open access to Africa
16 June 2011
BioMed Central is working on set of initiatives to encourage African researchers to publish their work in open-access journals
Openness should 'go deep'
15 June 2011
Brian Kelly of the UK Web Focus challenges the higher-education community to go beyond open access to published research in the pursuit of openness
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