Florida State University Libraries recently announced it is cancelling it’s “big deal” journal package with Elsevier, and instead, the Libraries’ will subscribe to a subset of “most-needed journals.” This week Inside Higher Ed published an article arguing that academic libraries are making the decision to cancel the “big deal” with publishers because library […]

According to a story recently reported in The Guardian, the single most-cited academic paper (referenced more than 2.8 million times) was published in an open access journal in 2007. “I have always been a supporter of open science. Research is no good to anyone locked in a cupboard, or published in a journal you […]

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