(8 Oct 2021) Gerald R. Beasley, the Carl A. Kroch University Librarian at Cornell University, has taken a keen interest in exploring and advocating for approaches that academic libraries can take to advance the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and has written particularly about the intersection of the UN’s goals and those of the open…
(14 Oct 2021) Cambridge University Press and the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) have reached a transformative agreement to support Open Access (OA) publishing in Cambridge Journals for 2022. It is one of the first major uncapped transformative agreements reached with CAUL by a publisher of significant size in Australia and New Zealand. It…
(6 Oct 2021) The new Global Open Access Portal (GOAP.info) presents access to a wide array of Open Access resources worldwide, through an advanced user interface design. GOAP.info allows users to browse dynamic Open Access contents via both a text-based search and a map-enabled country search option. Building on an earlier version, the new Portal includes…
(Oct 2021) The Council of New Zealand University Librarians (CONZUL) has released its State of open access in Aotearoa Year 3 report. Here’s the scope of the study: “This is the third iteration of our work, meaning we can start to analyse trends over time. Our dataset comprises publications from 2017 – 2019 with…
(1 Oct 2021) The latest news from Open Access Australia (formerly AOASG) is now available. In this issue: What’s new in OA & scholarly publishing in AU & NZ What’s new in OA & scholarly publishing globally Recent writing & resources on OA Upcoming events in OA & scholarly publishing The newsletter in full can be…
(9 Sep 2021) From the Report Published by the European Commission: The key findings of this study indicate that the European Commission’s leadership in the Open Science policy has paid off. Uptake has steadily increased over the past four years, achieving an average success rate of 83% in Horizon 2020 for open access to scientific…
(23 Aug 2021) The latest news from Open Access Australia (formerly AOASG) is now available. In this issue, three new members including ALIA, ADA, and Wikimedia Australia are welcomed. Other news can be found below. What’s new in OA & scholarly publishing in AU & NZ Chief Scientist discusses OA at Open Access Australasia members’…
UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) new policy will increase opportunity for the findings of publicly funded research to be accessed, shared and reused. (6 Aug 2021) Following extensive consultation with the sector, UKRI has published a single Open Access Policy for research publications that acknowledge funding from its councils. UKRI’s updated policy requires immediate…
(30 Jun 2021) A new Open Access pilot scheme from Cambridge University Press will turn conventional publishing models on their head by making academic monographs that sell the most copies available online for free. The initiative, called Flip it Open, will see selected books published and sold as normal, primarily through library collections for universities. But…
(9 Jun 2021) A report commissioned by cOAlition S and the Association of Learned & Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) is a follow up on the outcomes of the Society Publishers Accelerating Open access and Plan S (SPA-OPS) project. Smaller independent publishers – for example, society publishers without a larger publishing partner, university presses, library…