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 ...

Curious about open access publishing but worried about the quality of the journal? Confused about the different types of open access publishing models and how to cover the cost of article processing ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Open Access to information, or the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use those results as needed, plays a crucial role in making advances ...

In another victory for the open-access movement, the University of California system and Springer Nature have signed an agreement that will allow scholars in the UC system to make their work in Nature ...

A study of open-access publishing--published last week in the open-access journal PLoS ONE--has found that the number of papers in freely accessible journals is growing at a steady 20% per year (M.

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 ...

Mucosal Immunology is a Transformative Journal. When research is accepted for publication, authors can choose to publish using either the traditional publishing route or via immediate gold Open Access ...