Abstract Ongoing debates surrounding Open Access to the scholarly literature are
multifaceted and complicated by disparate and often polarised viewpoints from engaged …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of one of the most important
and controversial areas of scholarly communication: Open Access publishing and …

When seeking information not covered in patient-friendly documents, healthcare consumers
may turn to the research literature. Reading medical papers, however, can be a challenging …

Public voices have largely been absent from the discussions about open access publishing
in medical research. Yet the public have a strong interest in ensuring open access of …

To achieve higher science literacy, both students and the public require discipline-specific
information literacy in the sciences. Scientific information literacy is a core component of the …

In this paper we study the changes in academic library services inspired by the Open
Science movement and especially the changes prompted from Open Data as a founding …

Open Science (OS) is of paramount importance for the improvement of science worldwide
and across research fields. Recent years have witnessed a transition towards open and …

Text simplification aims to make technical texts more accessible to laypeople but often
results in deletion of information and vagueness. This work proposes InfoLossQA, a …

High digital connectivity and a focus on reproducibility are contributing to an open science
revolution in neuroscience. Repositories and platforms have emerged across the whole …

This study investigates attitudes to 'lay'or 'plain‐English'summaries of open access (OA)
journal articles in the context of engaging the public with medical research. It places lay …