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...
January 26, 2022
Jeroen Sondervan, in an Open Access Books Network (OABN) post: Under the banner and with the support of the Open Access Books Network, I organized the series ‘OA Books Workouts’, which were five talks (45 minutes) with humanities scholars from different disciplines...
January 13, 2022
From the author bio of Mirela Roncevic's Commonplace article on European librarians' views on OA monographs: Mirela Roncevic is a doctoral candidate at the University of Zagreb, where she has studied information and communication science, with a special focus on Open...
January 10, 2022
I missed this important Brookings report from September: Hundreds of higher education institutions are procuring algorithms that strategically allocate scholarships to convince more students to enroll. In doing so, these enrollment management algorithms help colleges...
