Is an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to correct imbalances in the scholarly publishing system.

UNESCO: Global Open Access Portal

This central tenet of scholarly publishing is changing, too.

ECONOMIST: Scientific publishing

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.

ECONOMIST: Scientific publishing

Over the years, however, the maid has shown a protean capacity for outliving and reshaping herself, particularly since the 1840s when Jules Quicherat revived interest in her by publishing the first scholarly transcripts of her trial in 1431 and of the 1456 retrial that rehabilitated her.

ECONOMIST: A maid for all reasons