Following an extensive consultation exercise, the group of funders known as cOAlition S has released revised implementation guidelines for Plan S. Plan S is an initiative for Open Access publishing that was unveiled in…
Estonia is very advanced in e-government infrastructure compared to the UK. You can’t fail to be impressed by its e-Resident initiative. In 2007 it introduced a Mobile-ID for mobile phones that permits secure…
Despite its small size the Netherlands is punching above its weight in Open Access practice and advocacy, driven by a strong sense of social justice. As early as 2009 The National Library of the Netherlands was…
Yellowstone national park, © Quan Yuan/Getty Images In 2013, a memo from John Holdren, director for the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) at the White House, was sent to all heads of executive departments…
You might not necessarily associate China with Open Access, but it has made rapid progress towards making more of its research publications open. Two powerful public agencies are instigating Open Access into Chinese…
© Copyright 2014 – Canadian Science Publishing. “[O]pen access is a worldwide phenomenon. However, the urgency of implementation has greater impetus in some nations because of strong OA mandates from large, centralised…