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As Techdirt has reported , open access (OA) is scoring more and more major wins currently. But the battle to gain free access to academi...

It is: one in which 1. The research the university produces is open access. 2. The course materials are open educational resources. ...

A few months ago, I had the temerity to suggest the following: Definitions matter. If you want to see why, compare the worlds of open sourc...

The Budapest Open Access Initiative ( BOAI ) is the nearest thing to an official definition of open access that we have. Today is apparentl...

As a big fan of the Greek national television channel ERT (available as a stream ), I was interested in this campaign to gain open access t...

Just as the Budapest Open Access initiative was a defining moment for open access, so the Cape Town Open Education Declaration promises to...

Here's some joined-up thinking : providing open access to key greenhouse figures: The Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (A.B. 32) req...

The Free Culture group are people after my own heart, so much so that their entire manifesto deserves quoting: The mission of the Free Cul...

Open access is only just beginning to creep into public consciousness, so it is hardly suprising that the OA pioneers - the people that have...

This is my kind of journal : The Northwest Journal of Linguistics is dedicated to the description and analysis of the indigenous languages o...

I thought I knew open access history pretty well, but to my shame I seem to overlooked Melissa Hagemann : Hagemann's strategic, behind-...

The open access world has been waiting with bated breath for an important EU document on the subject, in which a Europe-wide policy would be...

Now I wonder where they got the idea for this : This document defines "Free Cultural Works" as works or expressions which can be f...

The open science meme is rather in vogue at the moment. But Bill Hooker raises an interesting point (in a post that kindly links to a cou...