US Senate approves mandate for access to NIH research
The US Senate has approved a bill that directs the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to require rather than request that the researchers it funds make their results publicly available.
The US Senate has approved a bill that directs the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to require rather than request that the researchers it funds make their results publicly available.
Three trade associations have released a joint statement that sets out conditions for using copyright works where the owners of the material cannot be found.
Can e-books make their mark in research libraries? Rebecca Pool finds out the predictions of a new study
The UK PubMed Central Publishers Panel has agreed a set of principles for the re-use of documents for which an open-access fee has been paid.
A group representing UK biologists has come out in favour of open-access publishing, provided that it is adequately funded and that policies are flexible.
Based on total citations to their works, US-based Thomson Scientific has pinpointed researchers most likely to win a 2007 Nobel Prize
North American universities are leading the world on electronic publishing and open access while European counterparts play catch up, indicates the latest Webometrics survey
Tensions between advocates and opponents of open access increase with the launch of a new partnership that is aimed at protecting the integrity of scientific research, reports Nadya Anscombe
A new policy from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research aims to promote public access to its funded research
Open access proponents launch scathing attack on the Partnership for Research Integrity in Science and Medicine, describing it as an 'anti-open access lobbying organisation'