Rights retention: one small step for academics, one giant leap for global access to knowledge

<p>A few weeks ago, we wondered whether academic publishers might try to shut down the amazing General Index of scientific journals that Carl Malamud has created. There’s a precedent for this kind of legal action against a site providing a service of great benefit to society. Publishers have been trying to shut down the Sci-Hub … </p>

Observing the success so far of the Rights Retention Strategy | Plan S

<p>As someone who is independent of cOAlition S, I have been monitoring with great interest the application of the Rights Retention Strategy (RRS). Using Google Scholar and Paperpile, I have documented over 500 works published across hundreds of different outlets using the Rights Retention Strategy language in the acknowledgements section of the work. Authors are […]</p>

German Public Broadcaster ZDF Releases Dozens of Videos Under CC Licenses - Creative Commons

The ZDF just released 50 explainer videos from its documentary series, "Terra X" under CC BY and CC BY-SA—with more to come!

Commercial Textbooks Present Challenges in a Virtual Environment | Library

EIFL responds to UNESCO Open Science consultation | EIFL

In May, the Assistant Director-General for Natural Sciences of UNESCO invited EIFL to join the UNESCO Open Science Partnership and to contribute to a global consultation that will result in a UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science. In addition, the Director-General of UNESCO has nominated EIFL Open Access Programme (EIFL-OA) Manager Iryna Kuchma to sit on the UNESCO Open