Brussels, 21/08/2013 (Agence Europe) - The shift towards making research findings available free of charge for readers - so-called “open access” - has been confirmed in a study funded by the European Commission. The results of the study were made known on Wednesday 21 August.
The study shows that open access has reached the tipping point, with around 50% of scientific papers published in 2011 now available for free. This is about twice the level estimated in previous studies....