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Open Access Across Latin America: Tradition, Progress, and Challenges

A common saying is “Necessity is the mother of innovation”. This proverb came to my mind when I started the research for this article....

The Future of Anonymous Peer Review

The standard approach to publish a scientific research output is through peer review, a process through which independent experts scrutinize papers submitted for publication...

Impactstory – the Plug-In That Allows Users to Browser Open Access Papers

Impactstory, a nonprofit organization working to advance open access, has unveiled Unpaywall, a browser plug-in that gives users easy access to electronic open access scientific articles.

FP7 Post-grant Open Access Pilot Project is Coming to an End

Researchers have until the end of April to apply for APCs reimbursements, through the FP7 Post-Grant project. In 2015, the EU FP7 announced a post-grant pilot...

Open and Post Peer Review: New Trends in Open Access Publications

The quality of scientific publications will benefit from a revolution in the peer review models. The peer review system was created in the 20th century...

EU Puts Forward Ambitious Open Access Target

All publicly-funded research to be fully accessible by 2020. The European Competitiveness Council has announced that all publicly-funded scientific papers should be available on fully...

Raising The Standards Of Open Access Journals

The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), a leading open access journals’ index, has decided to tighten the standards for journals' acceptance, in order to...

The Perks Of Data Sharing

Data sharing is no longer a question of 'why', but rather of 'when' and 'how'.

The Rise And Fall Of Alexandria’s Library

Knowledge sharing: from Alexandria's Library to Open Access. History has told us that blood spilling is the most common result of a rivalry between ancient cultures....

Discrete Analysis Revolutionizes Publishing Landscape

Open Access mathematics' journal disrupts the current publishing paradigm.