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SPARC Europe is embarking on a year-long process to create a broader open agenda by connecting Open Science and Open Education.

Open AccessJuly 11, 2024

(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…

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Transformative journals: analysis from the 2023 reports

Open AccessJuly 4, 2024

(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.

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Just released: “Updated report to the U.S. Congress on financing mechanisms for open access publishing of federally funded research”

Open AccessJune 28, 2024

(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…

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Study analyzing 420 million citations show OA outputs are cited by more researchers from more places

Open AccessFebruary 15, 2024

(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…

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Understanding China’s perspective on research integrity and open access

Open AccessNovember 28, 2023

(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…

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ACM announces new OA publishing model for the International Conference Proceedings Series

PublishersOctober 4, 2023

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…

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Event: Asia Pacific regional workshop on equity in open access

Event, Open AccessMay 16, 2023

(16 May 2023) Open Access Australasia is convening an online workshop, in collaboration with OA2020 the ISC, cOAlition S and additional partners, to bring together a wide range of participants from across Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand and the immediate region to discuss the challenges to equitable open access in 2023 in this region and to explore potential solutions. The ideas from this…

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Royal Society of Chemistry will make all its journals open access

PublishersNovember 2, 2022

(1 Nov 2022) The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has committed to making all of its journals open access within the next five years. It is the first chemistry publisher to commit to a 100% open access model and hopes to fund the move in a way that will avoid individual authors having to pay article processing…

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OA Diamond Journals Study completed, emphasizing diversity and sustainable pathways for diamond Open Access

Open AccessMarch 19, 2021

(9 Mar 2021) OASPA is pleased to announce the publication of an in-depth report and associated recommendations arising from a study of open access journals across the world that are free for readers and authors, usually referred to as “OA diamond journals”. Funded by Science Europe and commissioned by cOAlition S in order to gain a better understanding…

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