ORCID - Open Researcher & Contributor ID - is an international, interdisciplinary, open and not-for-profit organisation committed to enhancing the scientific discovery process, improving collaboration and increasing the efficiency of research funding.

The Finch Report is the result of a Working Group on Expanding Access to Published Research Findings, chaired by Dame Janet Finch. The independent working group was set up to examine "how UK-funded research findings can be made more accessible." (Read the Press Release here.)

PeerJ offers academics two Open Access publication options:

PeerJ - a peer-reviewed open access academic journal
PeerJ PrePrints - a 'pre-print' server that allows you to gain credit and feedback from peers before publishing.

According to the Nature Publishing Index 2011, China now publishes more than 6% of papers published in Nature journals. In 2011, 225 of the 3425 papers published in Nature journals were represented by China.

How can I deal with the process of peer review? What is open access? How has scholarly publishing changed? Hear from leading University of Queensland academics sharing their experiences of academic publishing.

The Global Open Access Portal (GOAP) presents a snapshot of the status of Open Access (OA) to scientific information around the world.

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has been recruited by the UK government as part of its move to make all taxpayer-funded academic research from the UK freely available online.

Many grant-making bodies expect the peer-reviewed outputs of research they fund to be made freely available, usually within a given time frame. This is their way of ensuring the widest possible dissemination of the research they fund.

Scientific results should be made freely available to the public within six months of first publication, according to Sir Mark Walport, the director of the Wellcome Trust.

The US National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy has long been controversial. The policy requires NIH grant-holders to deposit manuscripts in PubMed Central no later than a year after the version of record is published.