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 ...

Monday marked the beginning of International Open Access Week, but the Open Educational Resources Consortium at the ...

As informal conversations continue with Elsevier, what’s been the impact so far? Amid cordial negotiations, Wiley and Springer Nature extend access past contract expirations 2 new agreements provide ...

What do we mean by open access? Open access (OA) publishing is a scholarly research model that provides unrestricted access and digital reuse rights to high-quality academic research, articles and ...

Critics say a directive to make federally funded research immediately free to the public could violate authors’ copyrights. It could also disrupt the $19 billion academic publishing industry. Even as ...

Special thanks to our Launch Collaborators, including artists, innovators, educators, technologists, and students, who developed these inspiring examples of what is possible with Smithsonian Open ...