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In the past few years there has been an ongoing debate as to whether the proliferation of open access (OA) publishing would damage the peer review system and put the quality of scientific journal publishing at risk. Our aim was to inform this debate by comparing the scientific impact of OA journals with subscription journals, controlling for journal age, the country of the publisher, discipline and (for OA publishers) their business model. Our results indicate that OA journals indexed in Web of Science and/or Scopus are approaching the same scientific impact and quality as subscription journals, particularly in biomedicine and for journals funded by article processing charges.

US tech giant Apple is set to hold a launch event today, where it is expected to announce its new video and news subscription services. While this is unconfirmed, Apple has been using the tagline "It's show time" to promote the event.

The well-liked streaming service on Monday made a confirmation that it currently tested higher subscription rates for new customers in Australia. The company...