North American universities are leading the world on electronic publishing and open access while European counterparts play catch up, indicates the latest Webometrics survey
Tensions between advocates and opponents of open access increase with the launch of a new partnership that is aimed at protecting the integrity of scientific research, reports Nadya Anscombe
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'
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 in BioMed Central's open access journals.
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 have been officially extended to 2015.
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute will require its original research articles to be made freely accessible in a public repository within six months of publication.
Interviews for this article have been adapted from recent PhaidraCon roundtable events and from upcoming 2023 editions of EpistemiCast
Patrick Hargitt explains why 2022 became the year that accessibility got serious
Joseph Koivisto and Jordan Sly from the University of Maryland discuss the implications of the publications-as-data model
Despite the collective and decisive step changes in enabling the transition to open access this year, we should not be complacent, writes Susie Winter
Thomas Shaw and Andrew Barker from Lancaster University Library discuss the realities, challenges and future impact of open access in the research community
It’s not a question of if, but how. The future of scholarly publishing is open, yet the debate on how to accelerate the growth of open access continues
