Since the early 1990s, physicists have benefited from free access to research papers through the arXiv preprint server. However, while arXiv provides access to early draft papers, peer-reviewed ...

Last month, European research funders collectively called for research publications to be made free, fully and immediately; so far, 14 funders have signed up. Before that, at least 50 funders and 700 ...

T he open-access policies now being adopted by governments around the world, most notably in the U.S., the U.K., and the E.U., are designed to remove paywalls from the publication of publicly funded ...