Australian universities pay millions to commercial academic publishers each year. This is one of the main ways academics publish their research and have it recognised by their peers. The money covers ...

The MIT Press is delighted to announce that it has received a two-year, $275,000 Early-Concept Grant for Exploratory Research (EAGER) from the National Science Foundation to expand the shift+OPEN ...

In April, the entire editorial boards of two companion neuroimaging journals resigned. The 42 researchers were protesting against what they thought to be excessive article-processing charges (APCs) ...

The MIT Press proudly announces that applications are now open for shift+OPEN, an initiative designed to flip existing subscription-based journals to a diamond open access publishing model. Launched ...

Formerly an imprint of the University Press of New England—a university press consortium that published and distributed print books from 1970 to 2018—the University of Vermont Press was reestablished ...

Open access to research publications falls under the wider umbrella of open research, the practice of making the processes and outputs of research transparent and freely accessible, wherever possible.

In 2015, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the largest charitable research foundations in the world, introduced a new publication policy that promised to pay publication charges for papers ...

RIT Libraries has partnered with several scholarly publishers to support open access publishing for RIT authors. Publishing open access increases the visibility, accessibility, and impact of your ...

As more academic journals adopt an open access (OA) approach to publishing, more high-quality research is available for free—and public libraries are well poised to help their patrons and their ...

We appreciate Stephanie Lee shining a light on issues related to a mandated transition to open access publication for U.S. government-supported research (“Making Your Research Free May Cost You,” ...