Some universities in the United States and United Kingdom are eyeing a scheme, due to be rolled out in 2022, that could see them pay...

The popular academic social networking site ResearchGate is appealing a 31 January ruling by a district court in Munich, Germany, which...

An ambitious free index of more than 200 million scientific documents that catalogues publication sources, author information and...

As libraries and research offices evolve with the complex and competitive demands of the research enterprise, tensions over their...

Australia lags behind comparable research-intensive countries in Europe in the development of open-access policies, according to a recent...

Only half of Australia’s 40 universities have a formal policy on open access (OA), and the policies are vague and ineffectual, according...

British umbrella funding agency UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) announced its long-awaited open access policy at a virtual roundtable...

Last month publishing giant Springer Nature announced that in January 2021 many of its Nature-branded journals will start offering...

In a significant policy shift, Nature and its 32 sister journals will give authors the chance to make their work free to read immediately...

In April, when the State University of New York (SUNY) system canceled a big subscription deal with Dutch publishing giant Elsevier in...

Papers published in ‘predatory’ journals attract little attention from scientists, and get cited much less than those in reputable...

On 30 May, many pay-to-read academic publishers breathed a sigh of relief. That day the funding agencies spearheading Plan S decided to...

Researchers worldwide are taking an average of 472 days less to post their studies in online repositories due to mandates from research...

The editorial board of an influential scientometrics journal — the Journal of Informetrics — has resigned in protest over the open-access...

A series of reports published last month shed light on how fatigued researchers are from conducting peer review on each others’ work....

Jason Schmitt was working at Atlantic Records when the online site Napster disrupted the music industry by making copyrighted songs...

Early-career researchers are pleased at European leaders’ rejection of a copyright policy that would have introduced restrictions to...

Over two thirds of researchers have released the results of at least one study they authored before the findings were formally published....

When librarian Jeffrey Beall shut down his controversial blog listing potentially ‘predatory’ scholarly publishers and journals last...

Academics in Tanzania, Kenya and Ethiopia publish a higher share of their research under an open access licence than scholars in many...