Push for open access to research

Internet law professor Michael Geist takes a look at a fundamental shift in the way research journals become available to the public…The Directory of Open Access Journals, a Swedish project that links to open access journals in all disciplines, currently lists more than 2,500 open access journals worldwide featuring a library in excess of 127,000 articles.

Moreover, the cost of establishing an open access journal has dropped significantly.

Aided by the Open Journal System, a Canadian open source software project based at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, more than 800 journals, many in the developing world, currently use the freely available OJS to bring their publications to the internet.

Source: BBC News

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