European funders worth $8.8-billion annually force scientists to publish in open access journals starting in 2020
It's a radical move that will make science better but many publishers are happy at all.
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European Space Agency makes all its pictures and videos free to share and use
It's time to get your space on!
Potential Effects of Sci-Hub on Academic Publishing
The academic publishing industry is undergoing radical change.
Nature journals make all their articles free to view
Nature, one of the biggest academic journal groups has announced that they will make all their articles free to view. While ...
Over half of 2007-2012 published research is now available for free
More than half of all peer-reviewed studies published between 2007 and 2012 are now available, for free, on the internet, ...
Student faces up to 8 years of jail for sharing scientist thesis on the web
Colombian college student Diego Gomez faces jail time after he shared on Scribd a thesis written by another scientist. The ...
How much is your university paying for journal access?
At the turn of the 1990s, scholarly publishers were increasingly concerned about what had become known as the serials crisis. ...
New, great open-access deal for particle physics
Fantastic news for physics lovers: pretty much all particle physics articles will now be open-source, thanks to a deal between ...
