24/02/2025
« The Max Planck Digital Library is happy to announce its contribution to TIB’s KOALA bundle for computer science and mathematics from 2025 to 2027: (…) »
24/02/2025
« This is the DOAJ Annual Highlights from 2024, which outlines some of the key data, projects and work from 2024.
We’re proud to share our 2024 highlights with our global community! It’s been a year of steady growth and progress as we continue to champion equitable open access publishing,…
19/02/2025
« OPERAS is a European research infrastructure that supports greater visibility and impact across social sciences and humanities (SSH).
As the European Research Infrastructure dedicated to supporting open scholarly communication in SSH within the European Research Area (ERA), OPERAS works to overcome the disconnect between funding and…
19/02/2025
« (…) DeepGreen is an automated delivery service for open access articles. Originally conceived to take advantage of the so-called open access component—a secondary publication right in Alliance and National licences in Germany to promote green open access—it aims to streamline open access processes by automating the distribution of full-text articles…
18/02/2025
« How to Begin the OA Transition: a guide for smaller and specialist publishers provides detailed
advice and guidance for both independent book publishers and those who work with larger
publishing partners.
UKRI, in partnership with the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
(ALPSP), the British Academy,…
18/02/2025
« Transformative agreements have become an important strategy in the transition to open access, with almost 1,200 such agreements registered by 2025. Despite their prevalence, these agreements suffer from important transparency limitations, most notably article-level metadata indicating which articles are covered by these agreements. Typically, this data is available to libraries…
14/02/2025
« A smart funding policy for digital books should lead to more open access in the social sciences and humanities. We asked: Which stakeholder groups should not be missing, and where is action needed most?
13/02/2025
« Ce billet présente notre récent article paru dans Learned Publishing ; il soulève la question du rôle que peuvent revêtir les archives ouvertes pour contribuer à l’effort collectif de correction de la littérature scientifique. Il fait aussi écho à la thématique “Intégrité scientifique et…
12/02/2025
« Is the biggest blocker to open access (OA) for books actually the economics of it all? Book processing charges (BPCs) do not scale but they remain a significant method of paying to produce OA monographs for many researchers and libraries. (…) »
05/02/2025
« The Open Book Futures (OBF) project, funded by Arcadia and the Research England Development (RED) Fund, was launched in May 2023 and will run until April 2026. OBF is led by Lancaster University and builds upon the pioneering work of the COPIM project (2019–2023) to initiate a step-change in the…