Open access gains ground

The global shift towards making research findings available free of charge for readers was confirmed yesterday in a study funded by the European Commission. It suggests that open access is reaching the tipping point:
Brazil, Switzerland, the Netherlands and the US have the highest rates of open access publishing. In Europe, 20 out of 27 countries, including the UK, are likely to have tipped towards a majority of papers published in 2008-2011 being made available for free.