Open access Open access feed

Open access refers to the practice of making peer-reviewed scholarly research and literature freely available online to anyone interested in reading it. Read our article collection or our <a href="https://opensource.com/resources/what-open-access">What is open access?</a> resource page to learn more.

Stencils hanging to dry

How open access content helps fuel growth in Indian-language Wikipedias

Indian contributors show the spirit of this year's Open Access Week theme, Open in Action, as they...
Subhashish Panigrahi 24 Oct 2016
Rules for open licensing

The rise of the shareable document

Using open document formats could create a domino effect where more and more work is modified and...
Steven Ovadia 09 Sep 2016 4 comments
Open science plant and blossom

New journal HardwareX to promote open source hardware for science

The purpose of HardwareX is to help accelerate the distribution of low-cost high-quality open...
Joshua Pearce 15 Jul 2016 2 comments
open source button on keyboard

Will RIO Journal be the most open of its kind?

A new journal aims to go beyond traditional scientific publishing by encompassing all outputs of...
Marcus D. Hanwell 19 Oct 2015 1 comment
Weekly news with teal radio beacon on the top of a mountatin

GPL enforcement, ONOS partners with Linux Foundation, and more news

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at community-oriented GPL...
Joshua Allen Holm (Correspondent) 17 Oct 2015
Mouse, digital humanities

Open source and humanities in the digital age

Welcome to the first installment of a monthly feature where we explore how open source software and...
Joshua Allen Holm (Correspondent) 03 Mar 2015 1 comment
Open access education written on a blackboard

Why open access matters

Imagine a world where scientists and inventors had no access to the accomplishments of the...
Opensource.com (Red Hat) 20 Feb 2015
Dinosaur skeleton "open up"

Meet the open access dinosaurs of the year

Thirty-eight new genera or species of dinosaur were announced in 2014, spanning everything from...
Andy Farke 13 Jan 2015

Most popular in Open access