A British charity is bankrolling an international effort to free more of the knowledge housed in education institutions and publishers. The $540,000 project, led by Curtin University, will bring together an alliance of researchers who will work to build universities ...

A committee of senior Harvard academics has urged the university’s staff to publish in open access journals amid concern that the cost of journal subscriptions is becoming “untenable”. In an email sent to all Harvard faculty members last week, Harvard’s ...