Open Educational Resources vs Open Access

Open Educational Resources (OER) are freely available online materials that anyone can use for learning and/or teaching. Examples are courses- including MOOCs (Massive Online Open Course), lectures, teaching materials, assignments and various other resources. OERs are available in many different…

OA Publishing Tools and Systems

OA Publishing Tools and Systems: 3 things you need to consider If you’re working with a scholarly organization or group of researchers to run an academic-led open access (OA) journal, you’re likely approaching all areas of journal management with the…

Benefits of Open Access Publications

The open access movement offers a number of advantages to people cutting across all sections of society. Access Most journals and repositories do not impose access costs on the reader. Thus price barriers are substantially lowered or removed entirely. Authors…