All publicly funded research could soon be free for you, the taxpayer, to read
A new initiative known as Plan S focuses on making all publicly funded research immediately…
The top 100 most-discussed journal articles of 2018
Open access articles related to knowledge management from Altmetric’s list of the top 100 journal…
Open Access Week is a call to action for the KM community
Setting the default to open is an essential step for KM research, but it's yet…
Paywall The Movie
The documentary Paywall: The Business of Scholarship focuses on the need for open access to…
Report profiles the work of Creative Commons in supporting open knowledge
Key Creative Commons (CC) initiatives include CC Certificates, CC Search, and campaigning against proposed EU…
Critical Eye: The damage of “science by media release”
The publication of a media release about a scientific study when the study itself is…
Research shows that published versions of papers in costly academic titles add almost nothing to the freely-available preprints they are based on
From the all-that-glitters-is-not-gold department.
Delhi Declaration on Open Access
Open access advocates in India have come together to make the Delhi Declaration on Open…
How you can be part of the “open movement”, and “work open”
This week is Open Access Week, which provides an ideal opportunity for you to think…
Scholarly and information institutions encouraged to sign up to open access 2020
The open access 2020 (OA2020) initiative has been established to accelerate the transition of scholarly…