A group of European organisations are calling on the European Commission to support public access to the output of EC-funded research shortly after publication.
The UK version of the US National Institutes of Health’s open-access biomedical research archive has now been launched.
As Google and its rivals move into traditional research information territory, they could face challenges of their own. A new type of search engine is the latest project from Wikia.
Nature’s authors and readers are reluctant to participate in an open peer-review process, according to a recent experiment carried out by the journal.
Growth in online usage of Oxford Journal’s Nucleic Acids Research, a journal that went fully open-access in January 2005, is more linked to search engines than to the change in publishing model.
Interviews for this article have been adapted from recent PhaidraCon roundtable events and from upcoming 2023 editions of EpistemiCast
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