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…
German researchers resign editorship of Elsevier journals in open access dispute
Projekt DEAL has been attempting to negotiate a nationwide open access license agreement with publisher…
Open access research monographs
A new report looks at policies, funding, and publishing in regard to open access research…
Publishers pursue ResearchGate over copyright infringements
Instead of opposing the open publication of papers, publishers can become supporters or even advocates…
Some notable developments in open information
Nearly half of recent research papers are now open access, Wikimedia 2030 has been released,…