Open Access is academic publications that are free to read and often have various re-use rights utilizing Creative Commons licenses. Research can be Open Access through publishing or archiving. Open ...

Open access refers to free, unrestricted online access to research outputs such as journal articles and books. Open access content is open to all, with no access fees. For more information about open ...

The COVID-19 pandemic fueled a mass push toward digitizing just about everything, from e-books to online courses. That trickled down to the scholarly publishing industry, most notably making journal ...

The movement toward Open Access (OA) is now more than two decades in the making. It arrived in response to the rising costs of journal articles and other scholarly materials. These high costs have ...

Three significant and intertwined changes in the ecological research landscape are occurring: new commitments to removing barriers that exclude scientists of diverse backgrounds, availability of open ...

The UMass Lowell Open Access Publishing Fund (OAPF) is a partnership between the Office of Sustainability and the UMass Lowell University Library. The OAPF is designed to engage, encourage and enable ...

The University of California, which has fought a years-long battle against the profiteering business model of scientific publishers, just scored a massive win: A four-year deal that will make the ...

Lucy Montgomery receives funding from the Arcadia Fund, which supports work to preserve endangered cultural heritage, protect endangered ecosystems, and promote access to knowledge. She also receives ...

Submit your publications, including journal articles, chapters, books, conference papers, presentations, grey literature, etc., to our open access institutional repository: Scholarly Commons @ CWRU.

CWRU and KSL support researchers of all levels publishing open access (OA) through policies, publisher agreements, and access to expert staff. In March 2024, the Faculty Senate approved the Faculty OA ...