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OA.Works turns 12 🎂

Turning policy into practice, ideas into impact, and the email that started it all.

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Introducing our Articles of Governance

Here are three quick things we think you should know This week, our Advisory Committee approved OA.Works' Articles of Governance. Articles of Governance set the rules for how organizations like ours are run, and so, despite the unusual name, they’re critical to understand. Today, we’re sharing

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OA.Report now free for thousands of funders to analyze and increase their impact using open research

We’re releasing free OA.Reports so that thousands of funders can find articles they’ve funded, see how open their research is, and increase their impact. Built with the Gates Foundation, OA.Report is used at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Wellcome, the Michael J. Fox Foundation, and others.

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Join the OA.Report for libraries pilot to simplify compliance checking for your institutional & funder’s OA policies.

Today, we’re happy to announce that you can join the OA.Report for libraries pilot! If you’re interested in joining: read on and get in touch! Get in touch💡About OA.Report OA.Report is an open-source tool that identifies research outputs organizations have supported, analyzes their openness

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Wellcome is using OA.Report to report OA policy compliance

We’re thrilled to share that Wellcome has contracted OA.Report to support data analysis linked to their Open Access Policy! 💡About OA.Report OA.Report is an open-source tool that identifies research outputs organizations have supported, analyzes their openness (including OA policy compliance), and then streamlines taking action to

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MJFF starts using OA.Report to measure OA policy compliance & demonstrate its impact

We’re thrilled to share that The Michael J.Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF) has signed up to use OA.Report to help implement its Open Access Policy. 💡About OA.Report OA.Report is an open-source tool that identifies research outputs organizations have supported, analyzes their openness (including

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HHMI starts using OA.Report to measure and improve OA policy compliance

We’re thrilled to share that Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has signed up to use OA.Report to help implement its Open Access Policy. 💡About OA.Report OA.Report is an open-source tool that identifies research outputs organizations have supported, analyzes their openness (including OA policy compliance), and then

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OA.Report gets investment from Aligning Science Across Parkinson's

We’re thrilled to share that Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP) is investing in new OA.Report features and increasing it’s usage of the tool after a successful 6-month pilot. 💡About OA.Report OA.Report is an open-source tool that identifies research outputs organizations have supported, analyzes their

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Nature features OA.Report's work putting OA policy into practice!

After a couple of years of working to support institutions implementing their OA policies, we're so proud to see OA.Report, our development partner, and one of our collaborators featured in Nature. We appreciate Nature bringing attention to the progress being made in more effectively implementing OA policies.

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OA.Report helps funders measure and increase OA policy compliance and their investment’s impact

Available to more organizations later this year.

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In the works at OA.Works in 2022

Some of our highlights from the past year

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How to unlock your paper and help the climate crisis

United Nations library event launches new initiative and collaboration.

RWJF's dashboard including # of articles published (428), # free to read (72%), # aligned with their OA policy (37%)

OA.Works' receives grant from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Helps enable OA.Report to support more organizations to discover, analyze, and unlock papers they’ve supported.

OA.Works joins Code for Science & Society

New home allows us to capitalize on growth

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OA.Works’ Natalia Norori Goes Back to the UN to Talk about Equity and Open

In this talk at the UN, Norori dives into the difference between open and equitable, using her life experience as a Nicaraguan scientist who has been impacted by migration.

OA.Works receives $1.9 million to bolster OA policies

Investment from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation creates a new partnership and open tools for OA policy implementation and self-archiving.

The Open Access Button is now OA.Works!

We're rebranding the Open Access Button organization to OA.Works to better reflect who we are!

RSCVD partner given global award for impact

And awarded a grant to expand RSCVD’s work. In the past month, our partners for RSCVD have received an award and a grant to both strengthen and recognise its achievements! This is critical. RSCVD started as an emergency response to COVID-19 so that, as libraries were forced to close,

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Talking ShareYourPaper.org with EIFL

The team at EIFL [https://www.eifl.net/] (Electronic Information for Libraries) and their coalition at large have been doing stelar work in the repository and Open Access world for many years. So, when Iryna Kuchma (one of our original steering committee members) asked us to give a webinar [https:

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An interview with the Scholcomm Librarian behind ShareYourPaper.org

This month, we released ShareYourPaper.org for Libraries. Leila Sterman co-designed ShareYourPaper.org and the version for libraries as the Scholarly Communication Librarian and an Assistant Professor at Montana State University Library. As 2020 came to an end, Jake Orlowitz caught up with her.

Shareyourpaper.org for Libraries out now.

Here’s how it works

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Our first six months using Shareyourpaper.org for Libraries

A post by Leila Sterman, our partner at Montana State, on their first 6 months with Shareyourpaper.org.

An update on RSCVD at the Forum on Interlending in the UK

For three of the past four years we’ve had the honor of speaking to the Forum for Interlending in the UK about our work on integrating Open Access into Interlibrary Loan.

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Plan S releases Journalcheckertool.org beta backed by our data.

Journalcheckertool.org [https://journalcheckertool.org] helps you understand how you can make your work Open Access and comply with Plan S for your personal combination of publishing venue, affiliation, and funder. It’s released in beta today, and we’d love your feedback! One important part of this is finding

Arcadia Fund Increases Support for our Work

We’re thrilled to announce that Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, has generously committed to continue its support of our work with a four-year, $1,870,000 grant.