Patrick Grant, Tanita Casci & Stephen Conway, University of Oxford. “Open excess: remove open access burden from REF.” 11 June {...}
01.07.2024
Read moreIntroduction The Transformative Journal (TJ) model was one of the strategies cOAlition S developed to help subscription publishers {...}
Policies
28.06.2024
Read moreEmerald should be applauded for adopting a policy since 2014 that states authors may make their accepted manuscript (AAM) freely available at the {...}
Opinions
14.02.2024
Read moreWith the advancement of open science, the reliability of open bibliometric data providers compared with proprietary providers is becoming a topic of {...}
Opinions
25.01.2024
Read moreThe Journal Comparison Service has been developed by cOAlition S to shed light on publishing fees and services. It enables those who procure {...}
Tools
17.01.2024
Read moreThe following paper by Pierre Mounier (OpenEdition, OPERAS) & Johan Rooryck (cOAlition S), was originally published in Hypotheses, a platform by {...}
Opinions
11.01.2024
Read moreIn this blog post, Bodo Stern, Chief of Strategic Initiatives at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Johan Rooryck, Executive Director of {...}
Opinions
31.10.2023
Read moreIn this post I shall describe how the American Chemical Society’s (ACS) new zero embargo policy perpetuates an increasingly out-of-touch and {...}
Opinions
17.10.2023
Read moreThe following article by Robert Kiley, Head of Strategy at cOAlition S, was originally published in the book titled "We so loved Open Access", {...}
Opinions
27.09.2023
Read moreThe Journal Checker Tool (JCT) – a service developed by cOAlition S to help researchers identify Plan S-compliant publishing routes – has {...}
Tools
22.09.2023
Read moreIn the following opinion piece, Robert-Jan Smits, Europe’s former Open Access Envoy and one of the main architects of Plan S, reflects on the five {...}
Opinions
05.09.2023
Read moreFrom inception to global impact In September 2018, a group of national research funding organizations, with the support of the European {...}
Policies
04.09.2023
Read moreWe, at the Göttingen State and University Library, are pleased to introduce the Hybrid Open Access Dashboard (HOAD), an openly available data {...}
Tools
17.08.2023
Read moreLeading up to the 2023 SDG summit in September, Nature has launched a series of editorials covering the SDGs. The first editorial raises the alarm {...}
Opinions
19.07.2023
Read moreThe following article by Johan Rooryck, Margo Bargheer and Pierre Mounier was originally published on ResearchProfessional News on 22 June 2023. A {...}
Opinions
04.07.2023
Read moreIntroduction The Transformative Journal (TJ) model was one of the strategies cOAlition S developed to help subscription publishers {...}
Policies
20.06.2023
Read moreThe following article by Johan Rooryck (Editor in Chief, Glossa: a journal of general linguistics) was originally published on Hypotheses. It is {...}
Opinions
15.05.2023
Read moreOne thing that crops up in politics is situations where politicians attempt to explain a new law they know people won't like or agree with, and do {...}
Opinions
04.05.2023
Read moreThe following article by Niamh Tumelty was originally published on the "Unlocking Research" blog, which is maintained by the Office of Scholarly {...}
Opinions
03.04.2023
Read moreThe publisher Taylor and Francis (T&F) provides a webpage, ‘Understanding copyright for journal authors’, aimed at researchers authoring {...}
Opinions
09.02.2023
Read moreIn 2008 Harvard’s Faculty of Arts & Sciences voted unanimously to adopt a ground-breaking open access policy. Since then, over 70 {...}
Interviews
20.01.2023
Read moreIn 2008 Harvard’s Faculty of Arts & Sciences voted unanimously to adopt a ground-breaking open access policy. Since then, over 70 other {...}
Interviews
17.01.2023
Read moreOn 15th February 1971, the UK moved to a new decimal system of currency. The unit of currency, the penny, was retained, so the new penny had to be {...}
Opinions
05.12.2022
Read moreThe following article was originally published on the LSE Impact Blog on October 26, 2022 Launched in 2021 by cOAlition S (an {...}
Opinions
31.10.2022
Read moreIn 2008 Harvard’s Faculty of Arts & Sciences voted unanimously to adopt a ground-breaking open access policy. Since then, over 70 other {...}
Interviews
18.10.2022
Read morePursuing a common aim Those involved in the creation of research outputs agree that Open Access (OA) benefits researchers, research, and society in {...}
Opinions
26.09.2022
Read moreDr Ginny Barbour, Director of Open Access Australasia, illustrates in the following article the power and potential of research {...}
Opinions
18.08.2022
Read moreFor the fourth time in less than seven years, the community of science and technology leaders have issued a statement calling on publishers to make {...}
Opinions
16.08.2022
Read moreImagine this scenario. You’ve written an article and want to make it Open Access (OA). To do this, you submit it to a journal that enables gold OA, {...}
Opinions
25.07.2022
Read moreIn 2008 Harvard’s Faculty of Arts & Sciences voted unanimously to adopt a ground-breaking open access policy. Since then, over 70 other {...}
Opinions
07.07.2022
Read moreThe Transformative Journal (TJ) model is one of the strategies cOAlition S endorses to help subscription publishers transition to full and immediate {...}
Policies
21.06.2022
Read moreThe following interview was originally published on the Utrecht University website. Johan Rooryck, Editor-in-Chief of the academic {...}
Interviews
15.06.2022
Read moreIn 2008 Harvard’s Faculty of Arts & Sciences voted unanimously to adopt a ground-breaking open access policy. Since then, over 70 other {...}
Opinions
18.05.2022
Read moreIn 2008 Harvard’s Faculty of Arts & Sciences voted unanimously to adopt a ground-breaking open access policy. Since then, over 70 other {...}
Opinions
14.04.2022
Read moreIn 2008 Harvard’s Faculty of Arts & Sciences voted unanimously to adopt a ground-breaking open access policy. Since then, over 70 other {...}
Opinions
07.04.2022
Read moreIn 2008 Harvard’s Faculty of Arts & Sciences voted unanimously to adopt a ground-breaking open access policy. Since then, over 70 other {...}
Opinions
31.03.2022
Read morePeer Community in (PCI) is a public initiative managed by researchers and organized as a set of disciplinary communities providing preprint peer {...}
Opinions
22.02.2022
Read moreHow to achieve universal open access (OA) to research outputs is the topic of sometimes heated discussion. Major publishers pronounce the superiority {...}
Opinions
13.01.2022
Read moreJournals Replacing traditional journals with a more modern solution is not a new idea, but the lack of progress since the first calls more than 20 {...}
Opinions
11.01.2022
Read moreIn law – at least UK law – copyright is automatically assigned to works created by authors. Authors do not need to apply for it or register {...}
Opinions
01.12.2021
Read more“The shift in the pattern of land ownership caught us largely unawares in the last century”. Roly Smith (from notes by Henry Folkard of BMC and {...}
Opinions
10.11.2021
Read more– The following post was originally published on LinkedIn on October 25, 2021 – It’s International Open Access Week and I’m {...}
Opinions
29.10.2021
Read moreAs someone who is independent of cOAlition S, I have been monitoring with great interest the application of the Rights Retention Strategy {...}
Opinions
05.10.2021
Read moreMany publishers rightly appear keen to proclaim publicly the many benefits of open access (OA), to state how eager they are to support openness, and {...}
Opinions
21.09.2021
Read moreHas anyone else noticed the conflict of advice that exists in the Springer Nature (SN) SharedIt initiative? On the face of it, it appears a good {...}
Opinions
15.09.2021
Read morecOAlition S has just issued its statement on Open Access (OA) for academic books. With this statement, cOAlitition S sets a clear direction for {...}
Policies
07.09.2021
Read morecOAlition S endorses several strategies to encourage subscription publishers to transition to full and immediate Open Access (OA). These approaches {...}
Policies
16.08.2021
Read moreIn March 2021, Chris Banks, Library Director at Imperial College London, wrote about the importance of a rapid shift toward full and immediate open {...}
Opinions
14.07.2021
Read moreThe OA Diamond Journals Study Report is a fantastic resource for anybody interested in open Access, and particularly for researchers and scholarly {...}
Opinions
13.05.2021
Read moreThe recently-published OA Diamond Journals Study is something I have been looking forward to reading for a long time. Looking at the results, it's {...}
Opinions
06.04.2021
Read moreDiamond. The term is made to do a lot of work. Used in open-access publishing circles to refer to modes in which neither the author nor the reader {...}
Opinions
31.03.2021
Read moreEarlier this month, cOAlition S and Science Europe published an in-depth study of diamond open access journals, so called because they charge neither {...}
Opinions
30.03.2021
Read moreThe statement published earlier today (3rd February) by the STM Association and signed by a number of its members (and a number of non-members), {...}
Opinions
03.02.2021
Read moreThe rhetoric of some scholarly publishers lately has shown a troublesome trend with respect to Open Access repositories (often referred to as Green {...}
Opinions
29.01.2021
Read moreIn the previous blogs, I covered Plan S and the requirements for repositories, and the benefits of deposit & dissemination of research findings {...}
Opinions
21.01.2021
Read moreIn the previous blog, I examined the cOAlition S mandate for depositing copies of articles in repositories. One of the main drivers for this {...}
Opinions
12.01.2021
Read moreWhen Plan S was launched in 2018, it gained a reputation as a Gold Open Access (OA) initiative focused on paying for Article Processing Charges {...}
Opinions
07.01.2021
Read moreAs the chimes of Big Ben welcomed in 2021, Wellcome’s Plan S-aligned Open Access (OA) policy came into effect. This updated policy will ensure {...}
Policies
02.01.2021
Read moreHaving worked to promote openness of research findings for some considerable time, it’s great to come across examples that illustrate why you’re {...}
Opinions
22.12.2020
Read more- The following post was originally published on the scilog – the magazine of the Austrian Science Fund FWF - Interview: Ingrid {...}
Interviews
11.12.2020
Read more- The following post was originally published on the OASPA blog available here - We thank OASPA for the opportunity to respond to the {...}
Opinions
11.12.2020
Read moreWe’ve worked hard to ensure the results given within the Journal Checker Tool (JCT) are as accurate as possible at this point. However, not all of {...}
Tools
18.11.2020
Read moreWe are delighted that the cOAlition S funded Journal Checker Tool (JCT) is released today. Although it is in open testing mode, this is a big {...}
Tools
18.11.2020
Read moreOverview The Rights Retention Strategy (RRS) ensures that researchers who have been funded by a cOAlition S Organisation will always be able to {...}
Tools
18.11.2020
Read moreFor a long time now, researchers have all too easily handed over to academic publishers the rights inherent in their publications. These rights {...}
Opinions
20.07.2020
Read moreThe Covid-19 pandemic has changed the world as we know it, and research is no exception. Globally, scientists are working together at unprecedented {...}
Interviews
08.06.2020
Read moreThe emerging Coronavirus (COVID19) has once again highlighted the need for researchers to have unfettered access to the research literature. A {...}
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18.02.2020
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