There is open-access publishing, typically supported by asking the author (or his employer) to pay for the paper to be published.
Many scientists are strong supporters of open access publishing.
The British announcement followed the publication of a report by Dame Janet Finch, a sociologist at the University of Manchester, which recommends encouraging a business model adopted by one of the pioneers of open-access publishing, the Public Library of Science.
In 2007, a study conducted by Jawhraa Abdul Rahaman, to explore the contentment of academics in universities in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia towards open Access publishing - 63.4% of the total participants in the study showed their desire to have their scientific publications available for free access on the Internet in future, compared with 22.4% reported that they do not support the idea.
Support has been swelling for open-access scientific publishing: doing it online, in a way that allows anyone to read papers free of charge.
Organization, since 2007, of events and training in support of open access, e-publishing, online journal management and institutional repositories.
The basic, Office 365 Home Premium subscription package also comes with PowerPoint for presentations, OneNote for note-taking, Outlook for e-mail, Publisher for desktop publishing and Access for databases.
Barbara Meredith, vice-president of professional and scholarly publishing at the Association of American Publishers, a trade group, has said that a demand for open access to research findings could undermine the sustainability of the publishing industry, and has promised to lobby vigorously against this happening.
He led The Times' move into digital publishing, charging readers to access its online site, and also had to implement cuts at the paper.
In addition to the creating the Digital Publishing Innovation Fund, Google has agreed to give French media access to its advertising platforms at a reduced cost.
Academics, who live in a culture which values the free and easy movement of information (and who edit and referee papers for nothing) have long been uncomfortable bedfellows with commercial publishing companies, which want to maximise profits by charging for access to that information, and who control many (although not all) of the most prestigious scientific journals.
Open Access experts from universities, specialized non-governmental organizations, UN agencies and publishing houses will gather together to deliberate on the strategy, present the global trends in OA and identify opportunities to improve access to peer-reviewed research information to all.
Open access advocates have the natural high ground and are gradually winning the debate over the future of academic publishing.
"Infogrames' access to Hasbro's long list of well known properties fits perfectly with our long-term publishing strategy to become the leader in family entertainment, " Infogrames CEO and Chairman Bruno Bronnell said in a statement.
News Corp said in June that it was separating its entertainment and publishing businesses, partly as a result of the scandal, in which journalists gained illegal access to the phone messages of many well-known people, and allegedly bribed members of the UK police force.
The all-important access to distribution -- once exclusively controlled by publishers -- is now available to all self-publishing authors.
Projects: OA Publishing agreement with Springer to make available articles by Dutch researchers in Springer journals will be made available Open Access, with author's approval.
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