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More than eight million chemical structures from patents are deposited into PubChem and made openly-available

A new mobile app enables users to scan the code of a book or magazine to find out whether they may legally copy from it under their CLA licence

Work is required to improve the ways that article processing charges are managed and paid, according to a new report from the UK Open Access Implementation Group

CERN and Wigner Research Centre will be first users of multiple 100Gbps links

Countries' GDP per capita and R&D spend per capita have a big impact on researchers' access to academic papers - and the number of papers and time spent reading them have an impact on research, according to Mendeley's new Global Research Report

Wiley survey finds that over 30 per cent of researchers had published at least one open-access paper, and 79 per cent said that open access was more prevalent in their discipline than it was three years ago

International scientific community agrees on need for quality indicators for new open-access journals

Open data partnership leads to release of data from Nobel Prize-winning laboratory for public use