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Wellcome Trust OA policy extended

Policy will now include monographs and book chapters.

UNESCO chooses Open Access

New policy makes all publications open without a licence.

Massive and Open - MOOCs and the transformation of HE

Ian Clark explores how MOOCs could transform higher education and how the role of librarians might change.

Germany: publisher to make titles OA through crowdfunding

De Gruyter will offer 100 titles for Open Access through crowdfunder Unglue.it

Journal of Library Administration: Editor steps down

The Editor and his entire editorial board have resigned citing 'restrictive' authors' agreement.

Open data for education - the 'LinkedUp challenge'

Competition to create relevant educational applications.

Latest Emerald/IFLA OA articles released

Latest OA papers resulting from agreement between IFLA and Emerald are now available.

Germany: Springer Book Archives expanding

Springer's historic book collection now includes 28,000 German-language titles.

Germany: National Data Portal Launched

Open Data: Germany launches National Data Portal.

France: OA works to be indexed in Summon

Works will be included in Summon Discovery Service.

UK: 6500 museum objects digitised

Digitised items now openly accessible thanks to JISC funding.

Max Planck Society and De Gruyter to publish OA books

Academic publishers De Gruyter and the Max Planck Society to cooperate.

France: call for OA impact study

Information and knowledge industries call for independent study into the potential impact of OA.

Brill and IFLA announce OA award

Scholarly publisher Brill and IFLA have announced the IFLA/Brill Open Access award.

RSC to roll out 'Gold for Gold'

Successful UK-based OA initiative will be rolled out globally.

CLOCKSS – a community governed archive

Collaboration between publishers and libraries demonstrates a shared commitment to preserving digital assets while supporting OA.

Open Access in Hungary and Ireland

Two articles in Research Information provide updates on the progress of Open Access in Europe.

OA in European biomedical sciences

New briefing assesses open access in biomedical research across Europe.

Humanities Directory announces full Editorial Board

Gold OA publisher Humanities Directory scheduled to launch later this year.