Science News Explores and the Science News in High Schools Digital Library offer a variety of free, age-appropriate STEM resources for kids from fifth through 12th grades.

Open-access publisher Public Library of Science has launched PLoS ONE, a free online journal that welcomes submissions from all fields of science and medicine.

Monday sees the first issue of a new magazine for scientists. Its arrival is already causing a stir: unlike other journals that record research about biology and medicine, this one is free. The ...

The public has lost free online access to more than a dozen Canadian science journals as a result of the privatization of the National Research Council's government-owned publishing arm.

The war to free science How librarians, pirates, and funders are liberating the world’s academic research from paywalls.

Having failed to persuade journals to post their content online free, a group of scientists has announced plans to publish two free online scholarly journals of its own. The scientists have ...

Under a new requirement that NIH-funded research be freely, immediately available, some journals are forcing researchers to pay to publish.

So, today, I just received my first copy from a free subscription of Cell. This is really nice because even though I have access to a plethora (yes, El Guapo, you have a plethora) of science ...

The number of open-access journals has risen steadily, in part because of funders' views that papers based on publicly funded research should be free for anyone to read.

Free Science, One Paper at a Time On Father’s Day three years ago, biologist Jonathan Eisen decided he’d like to republish all his father’s papers.