In the last blog post, we discussed climate justice. In the following post, we will discuss how climate justice relates to Open Access (OA) and the theme for this year’s OA Week: Open for Climate ...

“Building inclusive Knowledge Societies through information and communication” is one of the key objectives for UNESCO’s Medium-Term Strategy. By adopting this objective, UNESCO Member States have ...

As open access terms have split into colour-coded brands, not all allow totally unrestricted access and reuse. Among these, “bronze OA” stands out as a potentially damaging misnomer, writes Steven ...

While scientific publishing is far more open than when the consortium launched seven years ago, it is still far more closed than it was aiming for ...

The three-year agreement democratizes access for all CAPES-affiliated researchers, expected to make an average of 6,000 articles per year available Open Access (OA).

We are fully committed to open research and the benefits this brings for researchers, institutions, funders and the wider public. For authors who wish to publish their research open access, the Nature ...

As more academic journals adopt an open access (OA) approach to publishing, more high-quality research is available for free—and public libraries are well poised to help their patrons and their ...

On its website, Springer Nature defines publications as Open Access (OA) if they are freely available online to all at no cost and with limited restrictions on reuse. OA, it further states, is ...

This page is part of the Harvard Open Access Project (HOAP). As you consider different OA journals, bear in mind that some will be high in quality, impact, and prestige. Some will be low. In this ...

Nobody has written a comprehensive history of open access (OA) and I don't plan to. But many of my writings and projects over the years will help those who want to write or study that history. Here I ...

Open Access is academic publications that are free to read and often have various re-use rights utilizing Creative Commons licenses. Research can be Open Access through publishing or archiving. Open ...