Open access

Open access refers to the practice of making peer-reviewed scholarly research and literature freely available online to anyone interested in reading it. Read our article collection or our What is open access? resource page to learn more.

How open access content helps fuel growth in Indian-language Wikipedias

Mobile Internet connectivity is growing rapidly in rural India, and because most Internet users are more comfortable in their native languages, websites producing content in…

The rise of the shareable document

Higher education is increasingly embracing different concepts of openness, from open access to open education resources (OER). But where does that other open concept—open…

New journal HardwareX to promote open source hardware for science

The real power of the X-Men, a team of fictional comic book superheroes, is the ability to work together and share their different skills to meet a mutual goal. Open source…

Will RIO Journal be the most open of its kind?

A large amount of scientific research is published in scientific journals, and there has been a lot of debate around offering open access to these articles, along with the…

GPL enforcement, ONOS partners with Linux Foundation, and more news

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at community-oriented GPL enforcement, the ONOS project partnering with the Linux Foundation, an open…

Open source and humanities in the digital age

Welcome to the first installment of a monthly feature where I explore how open source software and the open source way are used in the digital humanities. Every month I will…

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