(16 Jan 2026) The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world’s largest and oldest society of computing professionals, has transitioned its entire portfolio to 100% Open Access on 1 January 2026. This marks a major milestone for the global computing and information science community. By making all ACM publications openly available, the move is expected to widen access to…
(1 Nov 2025) Charles Darwin University has designed an engaging OA card game called “Knowledge Keepers” to coincide with OA Week 2025. The game helps players navigate challenges around Open Access, teaching key concepts in a fun, interactive way while encouraging the sharing and protection of knowledge. It’s a great tool to raise awareness about…
(23 May 2025) In this annual review, we provide an overview of our activities in 2024, along with the latest advancements regarding our policies. Furthermore, we outline ongoing initiatives that will significantly influence our future steps. The review also sheds light on specific actions taken by cOAlition S organizations in the realm of scholarly communication.…
(14 Nov 2024) Four years ago, Indonesia was one of the top producers of open-access documents. As a result, Indonesian academics have many Indonesian-written open access journals to submit to. However, they now face a problem: to gain wider recognition, as demanded by global university rankings, Indonesian academics often rely on foreign platforms that publish…
(11 July 2024) SPARC Europe is launching a year-long project to connect Open Science and Open Education, benefiting research, education, and society. This initiative aims to integrate open agendas, supporting European universities with open access to knowledge. The project, funded by the Hewlett Foundation, involves mapping, documenting, and raising awareness to enhance openness in higher…
(4 July 2024) The Transformative Journal (TJ) model, developed by cOAlition S, assists subscription publishers in transitioning to full and immediate Open Access (OA) within a specified timeframe. This report analyzes data from participating publishers for the year 2023. Find out more here.
(28 June 2024) The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) reports on open access publishing since November 2023. The report addresses the impact of the 2022 Memorandum on federal research, covering public access policies, scholarly publishing trends, article processing charges, research integrity, peer review, and transformative agreements from 2016 to 2024. Find…
(30 Jan 2024) Open access is built on the promise that more people are able to access and use research. Putting this to the test, Chun-Kai (Karl) Huang, Cameron Neylon and Lucy Montgomeryexplore where citations come from for 19 million research outputs and find that open access is indeed working as it is meant to – allowing more…
(15 Nov 2023) Interactions and collaborations between the Chinese research community and international scholarly publishers are as numerous and wide-ranging as at any point in past 20 years, during which China has become the world’s top producer of research papers. Yet in some ways the perception gap between these two groups is widening. Some of our…
Move Marks a Major Step in ACM’s Transition to a Fully Open Access Publisher by the End of 2025 (26 Sep 2023) ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has announced it will transition its International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS) to a fully Open Access (OA) publishing model beginning January 1, 2024. Making its ICPS program Open…