France Prefers to Pay (twice) for Papers by Its Researchers
France may not have any money left for its universities but it does have money for academic publishers. While university presidents learn that their funding is to be reduced by…
Call for action: Help improve the open knowledge directory
This is a guest blog post from Open Steps, an independent blog aggregating worldwide information around Open Cultures in form of articles, videos and other resources. Its aim is to…
Open Access in Ireland: A case-study
Following last week’s Open Access Week blog series, we continue our celebration of community efforts in this field. Today we give the microphone to Dr. Salua Nassabay from Open Knowledge…
Let’s imagine a creative format for Open Access
This post is part of our Open Access Week blog series to highlight great work in Open Access communities around the world. It is written by Celya Gruson-Daniel from Open…
Nature-branded journal goes Open Access-only: Can we celebrate already?
This post is part of our Open Access Week blog series to highlight great work in Open Access communities around the world. It is written by Miguel Said from Open…
Open Access and the humanities: On our travels round the UK
This post is part of our Open Access Week blog series to highlight great work in Open Access communities around the world. It is written by Alma Swan, Director of…
Brazilian Government Develops Toolkit to Guide Institutions in both Planning and Carrying Out Open Data Initatives
This is a guest post by Nitai Silva of the Brazilian government’s open data team and was originally published on the Open Knowledge Brazil blog here. Recently Brazilian government released…
Launching a new collaboration in Macedonia with Metamorphosis and the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office
As part of the The Open Data Civil Society Network Project, School of Data Fellow, Dona Djambaska, who works with the local independent nonprofit, Metamorphosis, explains the value of the…
Open Government countries ranking 2013 (based on OGP data)
This is a guest post by Alberto Abella, head of the Spanish Chapter of Open Knowledge, and originally appeared at gobernamos.com. Open Government (ogov) is possibly next democracy’s milestone. Should…
Code for Germany launched!
This is a guest blog post by Fiona Krakenbürger, research associate at Open Knowledge Foundation DE and Community Manager at Code for Germany In July 2014, the Open Knowledge Foundation…