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Five publishers have withdrawn free access to more than 2500 health and biomedical online journals from institutions in Bangladesh. One research leader has described the situation as "very discouraging." From 4 January Elsevier Journals withdrew access in

A central part of SCORE is its two fellowship schemes, the Short Term Fellowship Residential Course and the SCORE Teaching Fellowships. We expect to fund 36 fellowship projects between 2010 and 2012. Fellows work is expected to inform, influence and impac

This JISC Scholarly Communications Action Handbook provides guidance and suggested actions, in an effort to address researchers' scholarly communication concerns and improve current practices. The series of actions were created in consultation with the co

A new European-funded initiative is advocating an entirely new system of science publishing, in which scientists avoid the hassles of traditional peer review by taking a quietly radical step: post their results on their websites.

Tthe MIT faculty unanimously adopted a university-wide OA mandate. Here's the resolution the faculty approved

College lectures are one of the many information products that should be free to all online, according to Chris Anderson, editor in chief of Wired Magazine, in his new book Free: The Future of a Radical Price.

EnablingOpenScholarship (EOS) is an organisation for universities and research institutions worldwide. The organisation is both an information service and a forum for raising and discussing issues around the mission of modern universities and research ins

Free, immediate and permanently available research results for all - that's what the open-access campaigners want. Unsurprisingly, the subscription publishers disagree. Zoe Corbyn weighs up the ramifications for journals, while Matthew Reisz asks how book

AISHE-J is the journal of the All Ireland Society for Higher Education (AISHE). It is an open-access, peer-reviewed, journal of scholarly research into Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.