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Fifteen scholars from all career ranks representing 13 academic institutions -- including five Historically Black Colleges or Universities -- were invited to the Institute's first training program. Courtesy of Ben [...]

Byline: JACOB HERSH Research is meant to be shared. For multi-billion-dollar corporations to lock scientific, sociological and historical knowledge behind a paywall, and demand as much as $50 to $100 [...]

Byline: Bernard Mendez The University of California made a two-year open-access agreement Feb. 19 with the Public Library of Science, which researchers say is part of an upending of the [...]

University professors will now be able to expand the scope of their research without paying access fees for academic materials, thanks to a new agreement between the University and the [...]

Byline: Amir Hotter Yishay A $25 billion industry with profit margins that put Silicon Valley to shame, academic publishing is big business. For years, library budgets have buckled under the [...]

Byline: Rachel Neumann by Rachel Neumann, Staff Reporter February 12, 2020 The existence and destruction that climate change causes is no longer a debate, but a demoralizing fact. According to [...]

Jason Schmitt is a journalist, filmmaker and professor who explores the economic and societal effect of academic publishing.ǯ Schmitt will be coming to the Normal Theater in Uptown Normal at [...]

Byline: Ellen Small-Davis Anthropology Professor Kristi Arford with the text book she created. For nearly a decade, NECC Anthropology Professor Kristi Arford dreamed of a textbook that would engage her [...]

After eight months of negotiations, Cambridge University Press and the UC system agreed to a three-year open-access publishing deal Wednesday. The deal was announced six weeks after the UC system [...]

Byline: Don Moore The traditional model of academic publishing is absurd. Universities and their faculties invest enormous resources into conducting research. They then send the articles away -- for free [...]

Shana Kimball, head of publishing services at the University of Michigan's MPublishing, will discuss the impact of open access on academic publishing, Tuesday at the Leddy Library. Scholarly communication and [...]