I was asked recently by open science advocate and historian  Michał Starczewski   if I would do a Q&A on open access for the Otwarta Na...

AN UPDATE ON THIS STORY IS AVAILABLE HERE Recently I was contacted by Library Journal (LJ) in connection with a series of video inter...

Based in Switzerland, the open access publisher Frontiers was founded in 2007 by Kamila and Henry Markram, who are both neuroscientists at...

Пока рак на горе не свистнет, мужик не перекрестится Mikhail Sergeev While open access was not conceivable until the emergence of...

Since the birth of the open access movement in 2002, demands for greater openness and transparency in the research process have both grown...

In October 2003, at a conference held by the Max Planck Society ( MPG ) and the European Cultural Heritage Online ( ECHO ) project, a doc...

Many words have been spilt over the relative merits of green and gold open access (OA). It is not my plan to rehearse these again right...

In his time, the founder and president of ScienceOpen, Alexander Grossmann, has sat on both sides of the scholarly publishing table. He sta...

Vitek Tracz is a hero of the open access movement, and it is not hard to see why. Fifteen years ago he founded the world’s first for-profit...

What many now refer to as predatory publishing first came to my attention 7 years ago, when I interviewed a publisher who — I had been told...