The entire scientific publishing world is currently undergoing a massive stress test of quantity vs. quality, open access (free) vs. institutional subscriptions (paywall), and how to best judge the ...

Recently launched OA journals recognized for quality in latest Journal Citation Reports™ PISCATAWAY, N.J., 27 July 2023 -- IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization advancing ...

Michael Eisen doesn't hold back when invited to vent. “It's still ludicrous how much it costs to publish research — let alone what we pay,” he declares. The biggest travesty, he says, is that the ...

The growing number of online open-access journals promotes academic exchanges, but the prevalence of predatory journals is undermining the scholarly reporting process. Data collection, feature ...

When Nora Y. Sun ’27 sought to submit her research for publication in the January of her freshman year, she didn’t have the funds. Sun intended to send her work to an open access journal — where ...

There are plenty of myths about open access – are any of them true? Open lock image from www.shutterstock.com Rather than lock up knowledge in costly journals, increasingly universities and ...

Open access journals are growing in number, but most of these charge fees for publication that far outstrip real costs. For years, I have been intrigued and encouraged to see the development of ...

How open-access journals are changing the field of peer-reviewed science There is an important discussion to be had about the future of scientific publications. As a practicing and publishing ...

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 ...

Beginning in the fall of 2010, Aaron Swartz repeatedly logged on to MIT’s campus network and used an automated script to download nearly 5 million articles from JSTOR, one of the largest digital ...