The newly released draft Recommendation on Open Science by UNESCO is an important milestone towards establishing a global policy for openness in scientific research and dissemination of results.
Posted 03 November 2020
A freely available toolkit helps academic book authors to better understand open access book publishing.
Posted 06 October 2020
Over 50 publishers are participating in the initiative to allow unlimited numbers of users access to ebooks. The list is expected to grow.
Posted 17 March 2020
Springer Nature is the largest OA publisher of primary research.
Posted 16 March 2020
The Association of European Research Libraries (LIBER) has published a midway review of its five-year strategy.
Posted 06 March 2020
2019 figures reveal growing impact of OA works in its collection.
Posted 05 March 2020
Three-year agreement offers open access and publishing.
Posted 17 February 2020
Annual figure exceeds 10,000 for the first time.
Posted 17 February 2020
The deal will enable greater visibility, impact, efficiency, transparency and sustainability in the dissemination of German research.
Posted 13 January 2020
A major breakthrough for open science.
Posted 13 January 2020
Report highlights the distorting effect of hyper-authored articles on citation and impact analysis.
Posted 10 December 2019
Five UK-based society publishers have signed pilot transitional OA agreements courtesy of Jisc.
Posted 10 December 2019
OpenMonographs.org wants to change the landscape of scholarly book publishing.
Posted 04 December 2019
Oxford University Press has reached agreement with Iowa State University Library.
Posted 03 December 2019
Beta version of resource for six cultural and heritage organisations announced.
Posted 27 November 2019
The London Library is the largest independent lending library in the world.
Posted 20 November 2019
CARL releases statement on benefits to society of Open Education.
Posted 15 November 2019
Collaboration with Google announced.
Posted 08 November 2019
Aim is to provide links between citations and digital content.
Posted 02 November 2019
The International Alliance of Research Library Associations (IARLA) welcomes the move towards the open access environment for journal articles.
Posted 31 October 2019
Göttingen and De Gruyter in open access book transformation project for the Humanities.
Posted 31 October 2019
New features added to enhance the Internet Archive music experience.
Posted 18 October 2019
Eleven outstanding projects celebrated.
Posted 18 October 2019
Demos, in partnership with Jisc, has set out to explore the potential impact of AI, robotics and other emerging technologies on the future of the research sector.
Posted 04 October 2019
The new site will surface archived content and clips that have a topical appeal.
Posted 20 September 2019