New research shows traditional open access has failed. Time to do something different
Last week, I wrote about diamond open access. I noted that one of the problems with the “mainstream” form of open access, also known as gold open access,…
Why environmental non-governmental organizations – and everyone else – should go green (open access)
Open access (OA) – making academic research freely available to all – seems self-evidently a great idea. It’s good for the public, which gains access to work it…
Will publishers try to shut down the free General Index of 107 million scientific journal articles?
One of the exciting possibilities opened up by the digital world is that access to all human knowledge could be made freely available to everyone with an Internet…