The inexorable rush of technological progress equips digital libraries with the tools to offer a great deal more than a set of electronic databases
Nature Publishing Group (NPG) along with the Associazione Differenziamento e Morte Cellulare is publishing an open access online journal called Cell Death & Disease in January 2010
Deborah Kahn talks about her role as publishing director of BioMed Central and the open access industry
In March, The Guardian newspaper launched Open Platform – a bundle of IT tools and data services that allows anyone to reuse its website content for free. Matt McAlister explained to IWR how it will work
The new golden hybrid “de Gruyter Open Library” model aims at meeting the shifting interests of the authors, customers and the clients
Initially considered the oddest of beasts, open access has opened up a potential treasure trove of cost savings, deeper awareness, broader access to research, and a stimulus to further studies. Archana Venkatraman reports on the rise of OA, and its future
Publishers have reacted angrily to a JISC report that sharing research information via open access (OA) would save higher education millions, condemning it as “a think piece resting on a number of assumptions mostly derived from the authors’ own estimates”.
Does Springer’s acquisition of BioMed Central herald a coming of age for the open access publishing model?
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