In the last two decades, the scientific world has waged an extraordinary campaign for openness — most notably through open ...

The Association for Psychological Science (APS) and Sage announce the launch of Advances in Psychological Science Open, a fully open access journal that will publish high-quality empirical, technical, ...

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 ...

Open access (free access without request) publications are an easy way to start practicing open science. There are two type of open access, green and gold. Both are open, and both work to give folks ...

PeerJ has announced the launch of PeerJ Open Advances in Plant Science, a new Open Access journal dedicated to publishing research and commentary that addresses the most pressing challenges in the ...

Lenny Teytelman can still recall his days as a PhD student 20 years ago when he accessed public databases for his studies in yeast genetics. “My research would be technically impossible had ...

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 ...

Title Page; Contents; Preface; Introduction: Open Divide Emerges as Open Access Unfolds; Part One: Global Issues; Openness as Tool for Acceleration and Measurement: Reflections on Problem ...

RELX owns Elsevier, a major scientific publishing house with journals like Cell and Science. Criticism of high subscription fees for academic journal access and copyright issues have strained ...