A council in Dorset is hoping to bring swipe-card access to some of its libraries in a bid to encourage more library use by ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and the Institute of Photonic Sciences have created a Raman spectral database that is accessible and open to the scientific community with 140 of the ...

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 ...

BCP Council's cabinet approved the library strategy on 29 October and will progress to full council at a later date for final ...

When Galadriel Chilton was an undergraduate English major at Berea College in Kentucky, she remembers asking a reference librarian for help on a project. Instead of going to the bookstacks, the ...

Research led by the Monterey Bay Aquarium and MBARI (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute) provides a new open-access Raman spectral library that can be used to detect molecular "fingerprints" of ...