When scholarship is made freely available, it allows researchers worldwide to engage with it, resulting in a much larger reach and impact. Over the past year, the University of Delaware Library, ...

Open access represents a transformative publishing paradigm that removes subscription barriers to ensure that research outputs are freely available to anyone with an internet connection. By providing ...

The group behind the radical open-access initiative Plan S has announced its next big plan to shake up research publishing — and this one could be bolder than the first. It wants all versions of an ...

The EU is set to rein in the “racket” of scientific publishing by backing open access to publicly-funded research papers. The proposals, first reported by Research Professional News, emerged in a new ...

Open Access provides free, immediate, online access to scholarly research. It not only has the power to transform the way research and scientific inquiry are conducted but is a complicated reality of ...

Open Research Europe (ORE) is the European Commission’s platform for open access publishing. ORE is designed to make research ...

MDPI, the open-access scientific publisher, has released its 2025 Annual Report. The report highlights the publisher’s growth ...

Frontiers has renewed its national open access agreement with Norway for 2025, reinforcing a shared commitment to advancing open science. Originally signed in 2020, this agreement - facilitated by the ...

Effective Dec. 31, 2025, all federally funded research must be made freely available upon publication. The change — originally made by the Biden administration in 2022 — did away with the option for ...

T he open-access policies now being adopted by governments around the world, most notably in the U.S., the U.K., and the E.U., are designed to remove paywalls from the publication of publicly funded ...

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 ...

If you have ever had to cite scholarly work for a paper, you likely understand the frustration of finding the perfect article, only to discover that precious information is trapped behind a paywall.