One of the founders of the open access movement Stevan Harnad discusses how he began working to make scholarship open, why he supports the green OA model, and his hopes for the future of OA.
In celebration of Open Access Week 2015, Scholastica will be welcoming OA supporters to the blog to discuss how and why they are working to further the OA movement.
British mathematician Sir Timothy Gowers announces the launch of one of the first arXiv overlay journals, Discrete Analysis.
Social media makes it possible to transport yourself to concurrent sessions at academic conferences and engage with others both physically in attendance and online.
The creators of Hybrid Pedagogy have sought to foster a new approach to scholarly communication, peer review, and open access publishing.
As the scope of digital humanities initiatives continues to evolve and grow, scholars and librarians are surfacing innovative possibilities for the field.
Social media is a big part of many college students' personal lives and, whether they realize it or not, a budding component of their future professional personas as well.
Librarians and academics involved in scholarly publishing from around the world gathered on March 29th and 30th to take part in the second annual Library Publishing Coalition (LPC) Forum.
How has and how will the overload of digital information impact the way that scholars look to absorb, disseminate, and assess new knowledge in journals and beyond?
Libraries are shifting to be not only keepers of scholarship but also participants in content creation, by supporting journal publishing, disseminating data from digital repositories, and more.