open access news

Perks of open access publishing
The standard process of academic publishing is pretty predictable: the researcher develops their idea and conducts a study, submits their article to their dream journal, gets rejected, makes edits and...

Open science and research ethics
Recently, a collection of reproduced documents from the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment became available as a digital collection through the National Library of Medicine. The USPHS Untreated Syphilis Stu...

Open Access Week 2023 next steps
For our Open Access Week 2023 series, we have covered a lot of ground on the benefits and challenges, context and opportunities around open research and scholarship. In the first post, we shared the d...

How can researchers engage in open access and open science?
Mary Lou Fulton Teacher's College journals logo As we near the end of this year’s Open Access Week, we are delighted to feature a guest post from our partners at the Mary Lou...

Welcome to International Open Access Week 2023
International Open Access Week is a global, community-driven week of action to open up access to research. The event is celebrated by individuals, institutions, and organizations across the world. Eac...

New ASU fund helps researchers publish in open access journals
In response to an increasing focus on open access publishing by research funders, the ASU Open Access Publication Fund has been created to help cover publishing costs for ASU affiliates. The new open...

Does access translate to accessibility?
Abbie Thacher, Open Scholarship Intern As someone who went through most of their academic career with undiagnosed ADHD, I have been thinking a lot about how to make higher education more accessible, ...

Keeping your work in the ASU repository
Jordan Claire, Scholarly Communication Intern You may remember that we shared three takeaways from the OSTP memorandum’s updated guidance. According to the memorandum, scholars who have received fede...

Open for climate justice
Anali Maughan Perry, Head, Open Science and Scholarly Communication This open access week, we have talked about ways to identify the right open access journal for your manuscript, how the FAIR princi...