In today’s scholarly communication ecosystem, transparency risks becoming exposure. It’s time to rethink our approach to openness in the face of integrity threats.
The United States has been creating policy on public access to federally funded research for the last 20 years. What can we learn from Elsevier’s attempts to shape it?
In Japan, open access policy emerged in a unique economic context and evolved separately from the broader movement. The result? Turmoil.
Collective library investment aligns open access publishing with the core values of librarianship. Models like MIT’s Direct to Open and JSTOR’s Path to Open point the way toward a more inclusive and resilient future for scholarly communication.
The open access pioneer on the movement’s halting trajectory and thinking in the age of the large language model.
Three librarians explain the model’s appeal and explore the challenges it presents.
The story of Hindawi is not one of exceptional failure, but of broad exposure to integrity risk. What should we do about it?
The Canadian Research Knowledge Network and Érudit transformed their vendor-client relationship into a collaborative partnership to support open access without author-facing fees. What can we learn from their approach?
When governments collect sensitive data about private individuals, personal privacy and governmental transparency come into conflict. How should we resolve this tension?
Recent outages of Amazon Web Services and Cloudflare are a stark illustration of our digital vulnerabilities. They are also an opportunity for libraries to remind users of their resilience.
Libraries have a crucial role to play in advancing social justice and equity in the creation and sharing of knowledge. The University of Cape Town Libraries show us one path forward.
SciELO—Scientific Electronic Library Online—has been operating for 28 years. In this interview, co-founder Abel Packer discusses the past, present, and future of the pioneering open access publishing platform and aggregator.
The open movement claims to include all disciplines. But it is profoundly shaped by the institution of science, leaving humanities researchers at risk.
Stories from three institutions show how university presses and libraries can collaborate to advance open access scholarly communication, foster diversity, and broaden access to knowledge.
Archive of Our Own, a digital fanfiction repository, shows what’s possible when we design our infrastructures around the communities that use them, rather than around extractive logics.
The Royal Society is switching eight subscription journals to a Subscribe to Open model. Here’s why and how.
Despite limited budgets, liberal arts colleges can make meaningful contributions to open access publishing. Here’s how.
Libraries have played a key role in open education from its inception. By taking these steps, they can help to secure its long-term future.
Conversations about open access can be riddled with distracting language. But what if we treated these failures to communicate as opportunities to learn more?
