Professor Carol Tenopir will visit The University of Queensland to present her report on the Journal Use and Reading Patterns Survey, conducted in 2012.

The Survey asked questions about the reading of scholarly articles from both print and electronic sources by academic staff and undergraduate and postgraduate students.

The University of Queensland was selected as one of two Australian universities to participate in the study. The results of the study will contribute to international research on the reading of scholarly journal articles.

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.

In early June, the Repositories Support Project (RSP) held an interesting and well-received event on "Scholarly Communications: New Developments in Open Access." The event was attended by librarians, repositories specialists, research officers and copyright consultants. Presentations were held on open access, social media, data citation, and research networking.

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.

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.

Journals publish what is often called the 'version of record'. But what if that version included errors, errors of transcription, or errors of fact? How would you know?

Protests against the US Research Works Act are escalating. You can sign a petition to register your opposition. The petition will be delivered to the US House of Representatives.

Though American signatories will obviously carry more weight, a display of worldwide opposition to the bill cannot hurt.

The US Research Works Act would allow publishers to line their pockets by locking publicly funded research behind paywalls, according to a Comment piece, Academic publishers have become the enemies of science, in today's Guardian.

Since 2009, publicly funded medical research outputs have been made available free of charge by the National Library of Medicine through PubMed Central. This has provided taxpayers with access to the medical breakthroughs their tax dollars pay for.