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Ask The Chefs — The NIH Steps on the Open Access Accelerator

The NIH has answered the lingering questions about the future of the Nelson Memo. Not only is it still in effect, it’s being accelerated by six months. We asked the Chefs for their thoughts.

  • By David Crotty, Rick Anderson, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Haseeb Irfanullah, Todd A Carpenter
  • May 5, 2025
  • 10 Comments

Access to Science & Scholarship: An Interview with Amy Brand of MIT Press

On September 20, 2024, MIT Press hosted a workshop, Access to Science & Scholarship:  An Evidence Base to Support the Future of Open Research Policy. I interviewed Amy Brand to discuss the goals and outcomes of the workshop.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Dec 5, 2024
  • 0 Comments

Paywalls are Not the Only Barriers to Access: Accessibility is Critical to Equitable Access

Digital accessibility to the scholarly communications process is core to providing equitable access to the literature.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Nov 7, 2024
  • 3 Comments

Revisiting — What Does “Federally Funded” Actually Mean?

With a new public access memo and federal agency policies due, Angela Cochran revisits her 2013 post exploring what Federally Funded means.

  • By Angela Cochran
  • Aug 12, 2024
  • 10 Comments

Guest Post — Speak Finance: Gain University Support for Open Scholarship

The federal government is mandating that the knowledge and data produced from federal grants be widely available for our collective good. Libraries remain under-resourced to make this happen. Let’s add some new metrics and language to this narrative to help articulate the value of libraries.

  • By Hilary Craiglow
  • Apr 9, 2024
  • 4 Comments

Library Licensing Strategies

Libraries are accelerating engagement with transformative and pure publish agreements, balancing contract-based publishing support with an APC fund, and investing in the scholarly communications ecosystem.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Dec 19, 2023
  • 2 Comments

The Problem at the Heart of Public Access

The intended beneficiary of public access is “the American public,” and we need so much more than access to the biomedical literature.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Dec 5, 2023
  • 17 Comments

What is Slang and How Does it Die?

Why are companies so effective at ruining slang?

  • By David Crotty
  • Jul 28, 2023
  • 3 Comments

Guest Post — The Nelson Memo and Public Access are Under Attack – Will Powerful Incumbents Come to its Rescue?

The Nelson Memo is being contested. Will the incumbents of the scholarly publishing world stand up for the Memo and fight for its funding?

  • By Tom Ciavarella
  • Jul 24, 2023
  • 16 Comments

SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast Episode 14: Open Access Update- A Run-Down of the OSTP Nelson Memo with Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe

Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe provides a current refresh on the open access (OA) funding landscape, and more specifically on the 2022 White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Nelson Memo.

  • By Meredith Adinolfi, Sara Grimme
  • Jul 18, 2023
  • 0 Comments

The Double-Cost of Green-via-Gold

Open access is public access. With the Nelson OSTP memo as a catalyst for Green-via-Gold, will we still need agency repositories?

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Apr 25, 2023
  • 35 Comments

Is the Library Responsible for Open Access Compliance?

In this moment of success for open access advocacy, Roger C. Schonfeld proposes that the academic library not take responsibility for implementing open access mandates. The first of several scenarios we will consider.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Apr 17, 2023
  • 31 Comments

Guest Post — “We are ready to move forward”: A Professional Society’s Route to Open Access

The President of the American Nuclear Society explains why the Nelson Memo may cause trepidation but bring opportunity.

  • By Steven Arndt
  • Jan 24, 2023
  • 3 Comments

Some Observations from Charleston (Open Access Edition):

Thoughts on open access (OA) from the perspectives of both the publisher and library communities at the Charleston Meeting.

  • By Roy Kaufman
  • Dec 8, 2022
  • 1 Comment

The New OSTP Memo: A Roundup of Reactions and an Interview Preview

Karin Wulf and Rick Anderson provide a roundup of responses to the new OSTP public access memo — and a preview of their interview with OSTP leadership.

  • By Rick Anderson, Karin Wulf
  • Oct 3, 2022
  • 0 Comments

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