Industry trends

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'

The American Chemical Society claims chemistry research is thriving as its Abstracts Service logs a record number of references

In a bid to boost publication exposure, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute is to pay the processing charges for articles published by its researchers…

French search software provider, Exalead, joins the Automated Content Access Protocol Pilot project with a view to validating the initiative

US sees a decay in the number of scientific papers published while the rest of the world increases its article count

Three programmes that provide free, or almost free, access to online peer-reviewed journals for researchers in more than 100 of the world's poorest countries…

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute will require its original research articles to be made freely accessible in a public repository within six months of…

An online global gateway to science information from 15 national portals has now been opened.

Scientific research has not been hindered significantly by a recent proliferation of technology patents and licensing agreements, according to surveys in four countries.

The Bundesrat, Germany's second parliamentary chamber, has passed a resolution supporting open access and scientific publishing.

The EU's High Level Expert Group on Digital Libraries has presented an advisory report on copyright issues to the European Commission.