In a long-overdue move, the federal Office of Science and Technology Policy has issued guidance on making federally supported research and publications available to all without delay or embargo. This ...

The ‘open science’ concept is gaining more followers, not least through the efforts of the cultural organization UNESCO. Over the past several years, the organization has been consulting on how ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. In the run-up to the presidential election last year, the FBI warned that foreign-backed online ...

JMIR Publications, a leading independent open-access digital health research publisher, and ZB MED – Information Centre for ...

As the scientific community embraces open science principles, the American Physical Society is launching a new open access ...

The open science community has a unique and vital role to play in countering these efforts. Open science promotes transparency, integrity, rigor, accessibility, equity, and accountability—asserting ...

The American Chemical Society (ACS) supports universal access to the results of scientific research via publishing models that are sustainable and ensure the integrity and permanence of the scholarly ...

In our article just released at European Science Editing, we examine open access (OA) publication practices in earth sciences journals in six countries around the world. Until the earth sciences ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. The status quo for the last decade in publishing the results of federally funded research ...

In August, the US government announced that it was adopting a policy requiring that all the research it funded is open access. A key element of this plan is that, once the policy takes effect, every ...

Academia and science are both in the throes of a crisis, marked by several inefficiencies directly impacting our scientific prowess and research capabilities. The subject of stagnation within ...

In 2015, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the largest charitable research foundations in the world, introduced a new publication policy that promised to pay publication charges for papers ...