In September, Elea Giménez Toledo (CSIC) & Juan Felipe Córdoba Restrepo (ASEUC) presented the findings of the first research on the publication of open access books in Ibero-America, conducted over a two year period by numerous organisations.…

What is Open Access all about? Given the amount of words expended on the topic (including this post) it seems that nobody can provide a simple answer, but the old Higher Education Funding Council for England had a go – it stated that “open access is about making the products of research freely accessible to all” That last word is the most…

Dear Colleagues,

As anticipated at the ICOLC meeting in London and the OA2020 Transformation Lab in Prague, I am very pleased to announce the re-launch of the ESAC Initiative and website (http://esac-initiative.org/) with a number of extremely valuable crowd-sourced tools and resources related to transitional license models (ie Offsetting, Read & Publish, etc.). With more…

Take into account the positions of all interest groups

The presidium of Fulda University of Applied Sciences adopted its Open Access…

Last Monday October 22nd a group of advocates and civil Society organizations, called by Fundación Karisma, met

at Panama City to discuss the role of Open Science in Latin America’s development. Among the participants there

were a variety of activists and researchers on digital rights, citizen science, open access, free software and open

education from at least eleven countries. Our main goal: to elaborate…

First published on the From Poverty to Power blog

This week is International Open Access Week. It is also two years since we published How Change Happens (How…

Two major academic archaeology journals are now accessible online:

Since more than 100 years the internationally active and established archaeological research institute Römisch-Germanische Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts (RGK) in Frankfurt a.M., Germany, publishes two peer reviewed academic journals: GERMANIA and…

Introducing HARVEST 

Holistic Access to Research on Vegetables, Economies, Societies, and Technology

HARVEST is the…

King Abdulaziz Foundation (Darah) adopts Open Access policy. During the universal open access week (22-28 Oct 2018) offering 23 books via Darah Store permanently. …

The Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions (COAPI) is a membership organization that has been working since 2011 to advance the promotion, passage, and implementation of Open Access policies at institutions of higher education. Membership in COAPI now includes over 100 institutions. Membership carries no dues and is open to all North American institutions with policies in place, or those working to pass policies. The COAPI website at (…

As open policies and practices become more the norm, there has been considerable debate on the topic of open access publishing. This debate has highlighted a lack of common understanding of what open access is, why it is important, and how it works. To address this misunderstanding, Medical Publishing Insights & Practices (MPIP)* is launching 2 initiatives during Open Access Week 2018.

1. MPIP Open Access…

It's OA week once more - time to offer up my annual personal perspective because for me, this week represents eleven years of commitment to our collective efforts to liberate knowledge. 

This time last year,…

In the current academic journal publishing system, a handful of corporate publishers control over 50% of the scholarly literature. Corporate publishers have outsized influence over how scholarship is produced and…

An important goal of this year’s theme for International Open Access Week is to encourage ongoing discussion about how we build equity into the foundation of systems for producing and distributing knowledge. This year has been marked by important developments that underscore that the shift toward open is well underway, and the discussions this week around the intersection of open and equity come at an important time, as…

[Reblogged from http://blogs.openbookpublishers.com/open-access-information-for-academics/]

For Open Access Week 2018, we’ve put together a series of blog posts that cover the basics of Open Access for academic researchers. We hope they give you the tools to navigate this vital subject with confidence.

What OA…