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?
Frances Pinter on the development of her pioneering model for funding open access scholarly books.
In this roundtable, representatives from across the African research ecosystem share their views on opportunities and challenges for open science on the continent. Available in English and French.
Lors de cette table ronde, des représentants de l'ensemble de l'écosystème de la recherche africaine partagent leurs points de vue sur les opportunités et les défis de la science ouverte sur le continent.
Transparency to Sustain Open Science Infrastructure (TSOSI) publishes information about organizations that fund open infrastructures. The goal? To make such funding the norm.
The RKD Research website, launched by the RKD-Netherlands Institute for Art History in 2023, makes art-historical data accessible and interoperable, supporting increased collaboration across the Dutch heritage sector.
The PALOMERA project took stock of the European funder and institutional policy landscape for open access books and monographs. Its findings are a starting point for an important conversation.
We’re stuck in a moribund scholarly publishing ecosystem. Acts of refusal by academic researchers and faculty may be our only way out.
The idea of research as a public good has long been a central tenet of the open access movement. Here’s what I learned about who is actually using OA and why.
Qatar National Library has been funding open access in Qatar for a decade. Here’s what we’ve learned.
