February 25, 2022
Helen Dobson, writing for Jisc's blog on the UK consortium's new diamond OA funding scheme: Jisc will publish a call directed to mission-based and diamond publishers to submit an application providing detailed information about their journal/initiative and an...
February 24, 2022
The Guardian: Scientists working with one of the world’s largest climate research publishers say they’re increasingly alarmed that the company works with the fossil fuel industry to help increase oil and gas drilling, the Guardian can reveal. For more than a decade,...
February 22, 2022
Demmy Verbeke and Laura Mesotten, writing in UKSG Insights on the KU Leuven Fund for Fair OA: The current push for OA risks putting so much strain on library budgets that there is no money left to foster alternative approaches to scholarly communication beyond the...
February 3, 2022
Chris Hartgerink, writing about the new, modular publishing platform ResearchEquals.com, which launched today: We need to work to keep open access accessible to the Global Majority. We join the efforts for new business models to that end. Recent innovations such as...
January 28, 2022
From the SPARC Open Access Working Group's statement endorsing the recently ratified UNESCO Open Science recommendation: The utility of the Recommendation hinges on its uptake by the global community. To this end, we strongly encourage the United States to adopt the...
