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Open Access Policies – The Devil’s in the Details

In today’s post Alice Meadows shares some of the feedback gathered by MoreBrains and UKRI about the technical requirements of its OA policy, including thoughts from three speakers at a UKRI webinar on the topic.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Jan 14, 2026
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Revisiting: Years and Years of Creative Commons Confusion

Creative Commons licenses continue to confuse the communications community. Here we collect a decade-plus of articles looking to offer some clarity on their use.

  • By David Crotty
  • Nov 10, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 2 mins

Diamond Dreams, Unequal Realities: The Promise and Pitfalls of No-APC Open Access

Diamond Open Access promises equity, but sustainability challenges remain. Discover the hidden costs, global gaps, and paths toward lasting open publishing.

  • By Maryam Sayab
  • Oct 15, 2025
  • 52 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

2025 Update: Quantifying Consolidation in the Scholarly Journals Market

Catching up with the ongoing consolidation of the journals market — what has happened in the two years since this was last examined? And how does the market look if you add in a large number of relatively newly launched journals?

  • By David Crotty
  • Aug 20, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — Beyond Access: Untangling Copyright Confusion in Asian Open Access Journals

In Asia, open access adoption is accelerating, yet the legal and structural underpinnings of this openness remain fragile, with significant licensing and copyright confusion.

  • By Maryam Sayab, Wang Linhui
  • Jul 23, 2025
  • 22 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table — Matthew Kissner

Robert Harington talks to Matt Kissner, CEO of Wiley, in this series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and for-profit sectors of our industry.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Jul 2, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

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
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Oxford Administrators Want OA Policy Removed from REF 2029. I Have an Even Better Idea.

Three Oxford administrators want to lower the cost of mandatory open access by shifting the responsibility for enforcement to funding agencies. But that doesn’t lower costs at all; it only shifts them. To truly lower costs, stop trying to make open access mandatory.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Jun 17, 2024
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Preprints, Journals and Openness: Disentangling Goals and Incentives

Robert Harington discusses the value of preprints, the importance of peer review, research integrity and openness.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Apr 17, 2024
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

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.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Apr 15, 2024
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 11 mins

Gates Policy Refresh: What Would Success Look Like?

While the BMGF may be all-in, from an industry perspective the Gates Policy Refresh represents a small but potentially valuable experiment.

  • By Ann Michael, Dan Pollock
  • Apr 11, 2024
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — Society Publishers Respond to Plan S “Towards Responsible Publishing” Proposal

Three global society publishers respond to cOAlition S’s recent “Towards responsible publishing, a proposal from cOAlition S”.

  • By IOP Publishing, AIP Publishing, American Physical Society
  • Jan 17, 2024
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

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.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Dec 7, 2023
  • 87 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Ask The Chefs: cOAlition S’s “Towards Responsible Publishing”

We asked the Chefs to weigh in with their thoughts on the new “Towards Responsible Publishing” manifesto from cOAlition S.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Rick Anderson, Haseeb Irfanullah, Roy Kaufman, Angela Cochran
  • Nov 16, 2023
  • 9 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

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
  • Time To Read: 2 mins

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