You might not necessarily associate China with Open Access, but it has made rapid progress towards making more of its research publications open. Two powerful public agencies are instigating Open Access into Chinese…
Over the years, the OARPS team has spent a great deal of time acquiring academic manuscripts and releasing them to the world through the repository. Much of our current work involves assisting academics with complying…
An alliance of charities including Wellcome Trust, British Heart Foundation and Cancer Research UK has launched a fund to make charitably funded research immediately free to access and re-use. The Head of Digital…
The UK Government's Business, Innovation and Skills Committee published their report today following an inquiry into open access. Parliament announced the report, emphasising the role of repositories: "The Government’s…
On Friday 22 Feb 2013 the White House issued a directive which requires federal agencies with annual research and development budgets of $100 million or more to provide free online access to the results of that…
In advance of worldwide Open Access Week, the Harvard Open Access Project released version 1.0 of a guide to good practices for university open-access policies. The new guide has been compiled by OA and scholarly…
July 16 was a big day for open access in the UK. The latest SPARC Open Access Newsletter (SOAN) by Peter Suber describes the 'tipping point' for the open access movement. SOAN #165 (Sep 2, 2012) gives a detailed…