Someone exploiting a security weakness on college computer networks recently tried to illegally download the entire collection of scholarly journals kept in the JSTOR database. JSTOR, a nonprofit ...

Doing research has always been a difficult endeavor for independent curators and arts historians. Outside the aegis of an academic institution, access to scholarly articles has traditionally been ...

He seems genial, but John Willinsky is a dangerous man. As a leader in the development and spread of “open access” scholarly journals, which are published online and offered free, the Stanford ...

Fees charged by academic publishers to access research journals have caused no small amount of consternation among readers of scholarly research and fuelled the rise of the Open Access movement. Wiley ...

RELX owns Elsevier, a major scientific publishing house with journals like Cell and Science. Criticism of high subscription fees for academic journal access and copyright issues have strained ...

Linkresearcher, an academic communication service platform under "Global Science," the Chinese version of the "Scientific American," collaborated with Impact Science, a Cactus Communications (CACTUS) ...

On July 19, 2011, Aaron Swartz, a computer programmer and activist, was arrested for downloading 4.8 million academic articles. The articles constituted nearly the entire catalogue of JSTOR, a ...

Division of Sports Medicine, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA Dr A W Nichols, Associate ...