Open Access

Information Wants to Be Free. Help in the National Archives Jailbreak
Open Access
July 16, 2015

Information Wants to Be Free. Help in the National Archives Jailbreak

Read Now
Unlocking the Real Cost of Gold OA
Open Access
April 7, 2015

Unlocking the Real Cost of Gold OA

Read Now
This Study Finds Citation Rate Boost for Self-Archived Articles
Open Access
February 4, 2015

This Study Finds Citation Rate Boost for Self-Archived Articles

Read Now
‘Free Access’ Is Not ‘Open Access’
News
December 10, 2014

‘Free Access’ Is Not ‘Open Access’

Read Now
An Editor Asks: Are OA Journals Bane or Boon?

An Editor Asks: Are OA Journals Bane or Boon?

The editor of an open-access journal looks at the benefits (and some of the headaches) associated with that model.

Read Now
My Experiences Launching an Open Access Journal

My Experiences Launching an Open Access Journal

While preparing for a panel on the subject at APSA this week, political scientist Erik Voeten looks over the launch of the open access and peer-reviewed journal ‘Research & Politics’ and discusses the opportunities and challenges of this kind of publishing.

Read Now
An Open Invitation to OpenCon

An Open Invitation to OpenCon

Nick Shockey highlights OpenCon, a conference to take place in November aimed at mobilizing support around open access, open educational resources and open data among early career researchers. Funding has been made available to cover travel to attend the conference in Washington, D.C. but the deadline is Monday.

Read Now
Do Scholarly Publishers Need a Creative Un-Commons?

Do Scholarly Publishers Need a Creative Un-Commons?

A move by an association of STEM publishers to offer a bespoke category of open-access licenses for scholarly work has stirred up proponents of the existing Creative Commons system.

Read Now
We Must Resist the Pressure to Be Interesting

We Must Resist the Pressure to Be Interesting

Academic publishing creates incentives to simplify results, cull aberrations and focus on the exciting — often to the detriment of good research. Could more open access allows us to be good and boring?

Read Now
Feds Make First Move to Enact Open Access Mandate

Feds Make First Move to Enact Open Access Mandate

A year after the Office of Science and Technology Policy told the U.S. government to open up publicly funded research to the public for free, the first of 21 agencies covered has begun its program.

Read Now
Will David Willetts Be Remembered For His OA Advocacy?

Will David Willetts Be Remembered For His OA Advocacy?

Now that Greg Clark, has begun his tenure as the new UK minister for universities, science, and cities, the London School of Economics Impact of Social Science blog asked for further reflections on the positions taken by previous minister, David Willetts. David Prosser of the Research Libraries UK covers the dramatic influence Willetts had on open access legislation and momentum in the UK.

Read Now
On the Ethics of Facebook – and Drawing the Right Conclusions

On the Ethics of Facebook – and Drawing the Right Conclusions

What does the Facebook emotional contagion study really tells us about research ethics? Perhaps, argues Robert Dingwall, that its time to deregulate public social science.

Read Now

Subscribe to our mailing list

Get the latest news from the social and behavioral science community delivered straight to your inbox.