Welcome!
The goal of the global open access (OA) movement is to use the Internet to provide free access to scientific knowledge and the digital tools used to advance it.
In this guide you will find information about the basics of OA and the many areas of the movement, such as Open Science and Open Data. This guide also contains information which can help you navigate the current scholarly communications landscape.
The box below contains recent news articles relating to OA and scholarly communications.
If you have any questions or would like to schedule a consultation, please email Prof. Chris Barnes, Digital Publishing Librarian.
News in Open Access
Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) gets major NSF grant
IOI Receives $299,454 from National Science Foundation to Investigate “Reasonable Costs” for Public Access to US Federally Funded Research and Scientific Data.
OA Monographs: A Call to Action
By Brundy et al., The Scholarly Kitchen, September 20, 2023
German science organizations strike open-access deal with Elsevier
By Gretchen Vogel, Nature, September 9, 2023
Academic publisher De Gruyter expands Subscribe to Open programme to accelerate Open Access
By Lauren Brown, The Bookseller, September 5, 2023
MIT Press’s Direct to Open (D2O) achieves second year goal, opens access to eighty-two new books in 2023
August 3, 2023
Open access to research can close gaps for people with disabilities
By B. Swenor and JR Rizzo, Stat, September 6, 2022
‘A Historic Moment’: New Guidance Requires Federally Funded Research to Be Open Access
By Megan Zahneis, The Chronicle, August 25, 2022
University of Michigan Press Hits 2022 Open Access Books Target; Ready to Expand Open Access in 2023
By Lyrasis, Lyrasis.com, August 23, 2022
