Qualitative data has a richness and depth that you don’t always find with numerical data. This is something I quickly discovered on joining the Virginia Tech University Libraries from a background in ...

Publisher open access (OA), also known as gold OA, for research papers is easy to understand: the final published version of a journal article is available to anyone with an internet connection, with ...

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 ...

This is a section within Good practices for university open-access policies. Adopting an OA policy is easier than implementing one, and the hardest part of implementing a "green" or repository-based ...

Open access refers to free, unrestricted online access to research outputs such as journal articles and books. Open access content is open to all, with no access fees. For more information about open ...

Danny Kingsley is the Executive Officer for the Australian Open Access Support Group. Her role is to advocate for open access. Rather than lock up knowledge in costly journals, increasingly ...

WASHINGTON, April 10, 2012 - The World Bank today announced that it will implement a new Open Access policy for its research outputs and knowledge products, effective July 1, 2012. The new policy ...

Publicly funded research underpins much of daily life, from policy decisions to innovation and public debate. When research remains inaccessible, its value is diminished. Australia has made real ...

Welcome to Smithsonian Open Access, where you can explore and reuse millions of digital items from the Smithsonian’s collections (2.8 million at February 2020 launch). We have released these images ...

This page is part of the Harvard Open Access Project (HOAP). As you consider different OA journals, bear in mind that some will be high in quality, impact, and prestige. Some will be low. In this ...

Big issue: A new open-access policy by UK Research and Innovation says that authors it funds must publish in a subscription journal or submit the accepted manuscript with no embargo in an open-access ...