Open Access: Tearing Down Barriers

While Open access publishing has some obvious advantages —- namely making scientific research freely available to all that seek it —– there are many other factors to be considered. Read more………..

About 14 agencies that will be covered by this mandate will have to decide on the embargo period At last, papers arising from research work funded by tax-payers’ money and published in subscription journals will become open access in about a year after they are published. The latest decision by the Obama Administration will be…

In recent times, some of you have been contacted by publishers of Open Access Journals seeking scientific contributions to their journals. While many of these new models of Open Access journals are well established, some of them are still known to be predatory, so be cautious, when you decide to publish with these publishers. IIA…

The American Astronomical Society (AAS) supports President Barack Obama’s new policy on “open access,” the idea that published results of taxpayer-funded research should be made freely available on the Internet rather than permanently restricted to journal subscribers or other paying customers. Central to the new policy is the recognition that publishers “provide valuable services, including…