Special thanks to our Launch Collaborators, including artists, innovators, educators, technologists, and students, who developed these inspiring examples of what is possible with Smithsonian Open ...

Open Access is academic publications that are free to read and often have various re-use rights utilizing Creative Commons licenses. Research can be Open Access through publishing or archiving. Open ...

Open access (OA) is shaping the future of scholarly publishing, and we are doing all we can to build an open future that works for everyone. This includes developing services that will help you – ...

Executive Officer, Australasian Open Access Support Group, Australian National University Virginia Barbour for the Australasian Open Access Support Group, an open access advocacy group. I used to work ...

Choosing to publish open access is easy and straightforward – and it is possible in every Royal Society of Chemistry journal. It refers to the free, permanent, and unrestricted online access to ...

Open access publishing continues to gain ground, with universities and libraries offering increased support in the form of funding for publisher fees and repository infrastructure. Research funders ...

Michael Eisen doesn't hold back when invited to vent. “It's still ludicrous how much it costs to publish research — let alone what we pay,” he declares. The biggest travesty, he says, is that the ...

An open-access network can offer fast fiber, but it works differently than what's offered by typical broadband providers. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist ...

Diamond Open Access (Diamond OA) is a community-driven, non-commercial model of scholarly publishing that removes financial barriers for authors and readers. Under Diamond Open Access, publications ...

In order to help reduce the gap between industrialized countries and those in the emerging economy, UNESCO has decided to adopt an Open Access Policy for its publications by making use of a new ...