Where Did the Open Access Movement Go Wrong?: An Interview with Richard Poynder
Noted journalist and scholarly communication observer Richard Poynder explains why he has given up on the open access movement.
Gates Open Access Policy Refresh Increases Compliance Burden and Eliminates Financial Support
The 2025 policy continues 2021 compliance requirements while also imposing additional mandates and eliminating financial support for open access publishing.
Guest Post — Open Access in Japan: Tapping the Stone Bridge
Matthew Salter takes a look at the new open access policy from the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST).
Guest Post — Pandemic Disruptor: Canadian Perspectives on how COVID-19 is Changing Open Access (Part 1)
A look at open access policies and developments in Canada, especially in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. Part 1 of a 2 part post.
Subscribe to Open: A Mutual Assurance Approach to Open Access
As the success of Subscribe to Open grows, what are the benefits and limitations of the model?
Guest Post — Pandemic Disruptor: Canadian Perspectives on how COVID-19 is Changing Open Access in Canada (Part 2)
Part 2 of this series looking at open access developments in Canada examines the changing processes and infrastructure needs for open science.
Guest Post — The Monograph and the Mission: University of Michigan Pledges $1.2 Million to Fund Open Access Book Publishing
The University of Michigan Press discusses its burgeoning open access monograph program.
Guest Post: Open Access and the Direction Moving Forward
A.J. Boston offers recommendations for how funding agencies and research institutions can better lead the change toward open access.
Subscribe To Open: Annual Reviews’ Take on Open Access
Subscribe To Open: Explore how Annual Reviews plans to leverage subscription payments for gated access journals to convert and sustain the journals as Open Access.
Retroactively Open: Elsevier Backflips for NERL Agreement
In a novel license agreement, Elsevier agrees to open backfile content from a consortium of elite private institutions. Will other libraries and publishers follow this model?
The University of California and Elsevier: An Interview with Jeff MacKie-Mason
[…] 2018, we publicly stated our two goals: An integrated agreement that covered access to Elsevier journals as well as default open access publishing for all UC corresponding-authored articles in Elsevier journals. That is, a “publish-and-read” or “offsetting” agreement. An overall cost […]
Guest Post — Beyond Open Access, Part 1: Make Academic Content Truly Accessible for All
Open access has revolutionized how research reaches readers — yet, true accessibility is an ethical imperative for institutions, publishers, and service providers to create genuinely inclusive scholarly communication.
Ask the Chefs: Who Owns Our Knowledge?
In honor of International Open Access (OA) Week, The Scholarly Kitchen Chefs ponder the theme for this year’s event, which states that “communities can reassert control over the knowledge they produce”? In the context of open access publishing, who owns the […]
Openness: An interview with Daniel Hook, CEO of Digital Science
Robert Harington interviews Daniel Hook, CEO of Digital Science, discussing openness and findings from his recent report entitled The Ascent of Open Access.
The Tyranny of Unintended Consequences: Richard Poynder on Open Access and the Open Access Movement
A recent opinion paper by Richard Poynder @rickypo offers analysis and prognostication with regard to the current state and future prospects of #openaccess and the open access movement.