ScienceDirect has provided free access to the 2012 Nobel Laureates most-cited ground-breaking research published in Elsevier journals in recognition of these extraordinary scholars and their contributions to science i

The European Science Foundation (ESF) released a report this week which aims to accelerate the adoption of open access to research articles in the biomedical sciences. The briefing emphasises the "moral imperative" (ESF 2012) of open access to maximise the value of biomedical research.

The Guardian reported this week on a new study in the BMC Medicine on open access (OA) and academic publishing. The primary aim of the study was to "measure the volume of scientific articles published in full immediate OA journal from 2000 to 2011" (Laakso & Bjork 2012). Further to this, the study also measured the share of open access articles which included publications th

SAGE Open Engineering is a new Open Access peer-reviewed journal designed for the publication of high quality research in all areas of engineering. SAGE is a large international academic publisher of journals, books and electronic media in all subject areas. Access UQ Library's SAGE subscription journals.

The Denton Declaration: an Open Data Manifesto, is the latest announcement on the growing debate on open data.

The declaration includes:

UQ eSpace is the single authoritative source for the research outputs of the staff and students of the University of Queensland. UQ eSpace serves to raise the visibility and accessibility of these publications to the wider world and to provide data for reporting requirements such as Higher Education Research Data Collection (HERDC) and Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) and for the internal UQ systems such as the Q-Index and UQreSearchers.

eLife, the new open access journal initiative of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society, and the Wellcome Trust, have made their first few articles available. The site will be officially launched in December 2012. The full content will also be made available via PubMed Central (PMC) and its mirror sites, such as UKPMC.

Athabasca University Press (AUPress) can demonstrate a significantly larger readership for its books as evidenced by the number of downloads of the open electronic versions. Read about a recent study that compares an open access university press with traditional presses. The study is available from:

SAGE Open Engineering is a new open access journal covering wide ranging topics on engineering. The new journal's aim is to be inclusive and according to the journal's website "lend itself to papers of both a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary nature but all engineering research will be considered provided authors can demonstrate that their work contributes to the aca

The BASE search engine is designed to find academic open access resources. BASE is operated by the Bielefeld University Library. BASE provides an excellent 'Advanced Se