This introduction discusses the importance of open access scholarship and its relation to the academy. The introduction provides an overview of the articles in the journal, which include responses to ...

Title Page; Contents; Preface; Introduction: Open Divide Emerges as Open Access Unfolds; Part One: Global Issues; Openness as Tool for Acceleration and Measurement: Reflections on Problem ...

T he open-access policies now being adopted by governments around the world, most notably in the U.S., the U.K., and the E.U., are designed to remove paywalls from the publication of publicly funded ...

Open access represents a transformative publishing paradigm that removes subscription barriers to ensure that research outputs are freely available to anyone with an internet connection. By providing ...

Open access refers to free, unrestricted online access to research outputs such as journal articles and books. Open access content is open to all, with no access fees. There are two main routes to ...

RELX owns Elsevier, a major scientific publishing house with journals like Cell and Science. Criticism of high subscription fees for academic journal access and copyright issues have strained ...