10/05/2019
« Joint Statement of OA2020 and cOAlition S: Research Performing and Research Funding Organizations Working Together to Accelerate the Transition to Open Access (…) »
19/03/2019
« With the signing of the Wiley contract on 15 January 2019, the alliance project DEAL has achieved key project goals:
to improve the provision of information to participating academic institutions by extending reading access to all the journals published by Wiley, the expansion of open-access publishing…
25/02/2019
« The University of California San Diego has signed an Expression of Interest (EoI) to adopt the principles of Open Access 2020 (OA2020), an international effort to make all scholarly publications freely and immediately available to everyone by replacing the current costly subscription-based approach with transparent, sustainable funding…
10/10/2018
« OA202-DE, the German National Contact Point Open Access, and Knowledge Unlatched (KU), the central platform for sustainable Open Access (OA) financing models, are working together to convert scientific journals from a subscription model to Open Access on a large scale. As many as 50 journals from ten publishers are to…
25/09/2018
« With the ongoing open-access transformation, article processing charges (APCs) are gaining importance as the dominant business model for scientific open-access journals. This paper analyzes which factors determine the level of an APC by means of multivariate linear regression. (…) »
27/10/2017
« Open in order to innovate! In the theme of Open Access Week 2017, OA2020 relaunches its website with a call to libraries worldwide to divest of the traditional subscription model in order to finance innovative, sustainable business and publishing models. (…)
As set out in the OA2020 Expression of Interest,…
23/03/2017
« The University Library at UC Berkeley took a major step today in its commitment to achieving universal open access for scholarly journal literature by signing the OA2020 Expression of Interest, in collaboration with UC Davis and UC San Francisco.
26/09/2016
« TIB signs Expression of Interest, stating its commitment to contribute to transformation to Open Access
The international initiative Open Access 2020 – or OA2020 for short – actively promotes the conversion of the majority of existing journals…
22/03/2016
« Open Access 2020 is an international initiative that aims to induce the swift, smooth and scholarly-oriented transformation of today’s scholarly journals from subscription to open access publishing.
The principles of this initiative were discussed and agreed upon at the Berlin 12 Conference on 8-9 December 2015…