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Open Access

Posted byby OKFN
May 29, 2023

Peter Murray-Rust: ‘The Global South is seen to be doing things better, it only lacks a unified critical mass’

A historic open science advocate and a member of the Open Definition Council joined us for the sixth #OKFN100, a series of conversations with more than 100 people about the current challenges and the paths of action of the open movement.

Posted byby OKFN
January 11, 2023

Balázs Bodó: ‘Digital commons are actually reproducing existing power inequalities’

#OKFN100 is kicking off today, a series of conversations with 100+ people about how openness can strengthen the fights for the complex challenges of our times

Posted byby Solomon Mekonnen
October 9, 2019

Ethiopia adopts a national open access policy

In September, Ethiopia adopted a national open access policy for higher education institutions. In a guest blog on the EIFL website, Dr Solomon Mekonnen Tekle, librarian at Addis Ababa University…

Posted byby Natalia Norori
November 12, 2018

Open in order to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

The following blog post is an adaptation of a talk given at the OpenCon 2018 satellite event hosted at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City. Slides for the…

Posted byby Jonathan Gray
January 12, 2018

New edition of Data Journalism Handbook to explore journalistic interventions in the data society

This blog has been reposted from http://jonathangray.org/2017/12/20/new-edition-data-journalism-handbook/ The first edition of The Data Journalism Handbook has been widely used and widely cited by students, practitioners and researchers alike, serving as both…

Posted byby Michele Marchetto
October 26, 2017

How Wikimedia helped authors make over 3000 articles green open access via Dissemin

In light of this year’s Open Access week, Michele Marchetto of Wikimedia Italia shares the story of how they helped authors to make their open access articles more widely available. This post…

Posted byby Danny Lämmerhirt
October 24, 2017

Understanding the costs of scholarly publishing – Why we need a public data infrastructure of publishing costs

Scholarly communication has undergone a seismic shift away from closed publishing towards an ever-growing support for open access. With closed publishing models, academic libraries faced a so-called “serials crisis” and…

Posted byby Christian Villum
October 1, 2014

Support Diego Gomez, Join the Global Open Access Movement

This is a post put together based on great contributions on the blogs of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (Adi Kamdar & Maira Sutton), Creative Commons (Timothy Vollmer) and the Open…

Open Access

Peter Murray-Rust: ‘The Global South is seen to be doing things better, it only lacks a unified critical mass’

Balázs Bodó: ‘Digital commons are actually reproducing existing power inequalities’

Ethiopia adopts a national open access policy

Open in order to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

New edition of Data Journalism Handbook to explore journalistic interventions in the data society

How Wikimedia helped authors make over 3000 articles green open access via Dissemin

Understanding the costs of scholarly publishing – Why we need a public data infrastructure of publishing costs

Support Diego Gomez, Join the Global Open Access Movement

Open Technology Research Officially Launches to Strengthen Global Research Community

The Road to a Press Freedom AI Commons

Open Knowledge Foundation Priorities for the 2025 OGP

Travis Gerke: ‘Academia is still very supportive of the singular hero scientist. But most things take teams’

Andrés Vázquez: ‘90% of technological problems can be solved with tools that have been around for decades’

Jaya Klara Brekke: ‘Know who runs your infrastructure’

Our Network Contribution to Shape the European Open Digital Ecosystem Strategy

School of Data Returns: Scaling Digital Literacy Through Trainer Multipliers

Presentation & Expert Roundtable: ‘From Software to Society — Openness in a Changing World’