open access
Librarians Are Finding Thousands Of Books No Longer Protected By Copyright Law
Up to 75 percent of books published before 1964 may now be in the public domain, according to researchers at the New York Public Library.
The High Cost of Academic Publishing Leaves Africa Behind
Researchers are calling for urgent reform in open access publishing as African scientists face the choice to either pay pricey fees out of pocket, or not publish at all.
There Are Now 8,000 Fake Science ‘Journals’ Worldwide, Researchers Say
Researchers from high-profile institutions are falling for these scams.
Scientists Are Debating Whether Animals Have a Right to Privacy
A growing number of scientists are deliberately concealing tracking data to protect their location.
Fake Science News Is Just As Bad As Fake News
A Canadian journalist set out to get a fake article published in a scientific journal.
Obama's Pick For Librarian of Congress Is an Open Access Champion
She's a tech-savvy, open access champion who supporters say could help bring the nation’s largest and most important library into the digital age.
These Charities Want to Pay for Your Access to Scientific Journals
Open access publishing comes at a price, and a group of British charities are offering to pay.
A Neuroscientist Risked His Research to Publish These Photos
"The public should certainly have a goddamn say in my work."
Brewster Kahle, the Librarian of 404 Billion Websites
Kahle is an engineer-turned-digital librarian who founded the Internet Archive in 1996.
The New York Public Library Releases 20,000 Beautiful High-Resolution Maps
A crop of public domain maps for the public to peruse and lay over contemporary maps.
Two Years Later, Where Is Occupy's Internet?
Catching up with Isaac Wilder, who we first met during the height of Occupy actions as he and a small band of hackers set out to build the people's Internet.