open access

A new journal from Cambridge University Press will take a radical new approach to both publishing and peer reviewing research.

Stephen Hawking’s PhD thesis, ‘ Properties of expanding universes’, has been made freely available to anyone, anywhere in the world, after being made...

New project, partly designed by a University of Cambridge researcher, aims to improve transparency in science by sharing ‘how the sausage is made’.

Reproducibility is the idea that an experiment can be repeated by another scientist and they will get the same result. It is important to show that...

The University of Cambridge has received its 10,000th Open Access submission – highlighting its commitment to making research freely available to...

Virginia Barbour, Executive Officer, Australasian Open Access Support Group, Australian National University; Danny Kingsley, Executive Officer for the...

A team of scientists, part of the international effort to curb further spread of the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone, has released its first dataset of...

Siegfried Sassoon’s First World War diaries – some bearing traces of mud from the Somme – are among 4,100 pages from his personal archive being made...

An exciting venture dedicated to the sharing of knowledge and information, the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF) is creating a worldwide ecosystem of...