Theme of 2019 International Open Access Week: Open for Whom?
The theme of International Open Access Week 2019 has been announced. It reads: “Open for Whom? Equity in Open Knowledge”. With this theme, Open Access…
The theme of International Open Access Week 2019 has been announced. It reads: “Open for Whom? Equity in Open Knowledge”. With this theme, Open Access…
The publication of “Plan S” in September 2018 triggered a global debate on open access to scholarly literature. The call for feedback on the draft…
In various parts of the science system, there is a desire to be able to assess the quality of scholarly journals. Although the journal impact factor…
With an international initiative for the comprehensive application of the principle of open access to scholarly journals, OA2020 wants to contribute…
For 15 years now, the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) has actively supported the provision of open access to publicly funded research results. As early as…
The funding of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is assured. Eight consortia and 175 institutions and organisations from 18 different…
The OAPEN Foundation in the Netherlands and OpenEdition in France have jointly established the DOAB Foundation. The mission of the new foundation is…
The research unit “Ethics in Antiquity and Christianity” at the University of Mainz has founded an international open access journal, the Journal of…
With the Open Science Fellows Program, Wikimedia Deutschland, the Stifterverband, and the Volkswagen Foundation aim to support researchers who wish to…
The Leibniz Association has become the first non-university research organisation in Germany to support the open access publication of scientific…