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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 (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 on ShareYourPaper.org For Libraries

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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 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 out if you

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.

Joining forces with the Founder of the Wikipedia Library

It’s a big day for us, Jake Orlowitz is joining the project to help us grow awareness and usage of our tools while deepening our relationship with the library community.

Our new blog is a lesson in controlling our own infrastructure.

Notice anything different? We’ve moved to a new blogging system, welcome! It’s twice as fast, aligns with our values by protecting your privacy, and most importantly is a better place to learn about our work.

InstantILL powers global COVID-19 response in partnership with IFLA

RSCVD has gone from strength to strength, and is transitioning into becoming not an emergency response, but long term infrastructure.

Forbes profile one of our team, Natalia Norori.

We’re incredibly proud that one of our tiny team, Natalia Norori, has been profiled by Forbes as a young leader for her work with us

How we planned for a pandemic

This isn’t a post about what we’re doing in response to COVID-19. Instead, we’re sharing how we planned to respond as an act of…

cOAlition S chooses Shareyourpaper.org Permissions for Plan S Journal Checker Tool

After an extensive competitive search, we’re proud to announce that cOAlition S, an international consortium of research funders working…

Alberto Espay’s journey with Shareyourpaper.org

We’ve been lucky enough to have many people review our tools over the years, and we appreciate them all. However, we’ve never had one quite like that of Marina Noordegraaf in her tale, “Liberating Knowledge From The Shackles of Paywalls: Or, Why I Love Alberto Espay.” Marina is

Making it easy to know how to self-archive a paper with a new API, tools, and new website.

There are major updates to our tools and data to make permissions checking easier, faster, and clearer for libraries on our new website.

Supporting Resource Sharing during COVID-19 with IFLA

If your library’s ability to do resource sharing (i.e. ILL or document delivery) has been impacted by COVID-19, help is at hand…

With Shareyourpaper.org it’s easy to make your paper Open Access, for free!

In a few clicks, Shareyourpaper.org can help authors share their Coronavirus research and, in fact, any research.

Thanking libraries who sustain us.

Today, we’re releasing a showcase for institutions that are enabling our work

Get To Fulltext Ourselves, not GetFTR.

There’s a reason why commercial players are scrambling to launch such services: to maintain control.

Testing the Future of Self-Archiving

Today we’re treated to a post by Leila Sterman, our partner at Montana State, on using user testing to build Shareyourpaper.org. If you…

InstantILL Recognized at Premier ILL Conference

While building InstantILL, alongside our partners at IUPUI University Library, we documented our engineering work and unusual partnership… While building InstantILL, alongside our partners at IUPUI University Library, we documented our engineering work and unusual partnership in a paper that you ca

Sustainability Without Scarcity: Our New Business Model with Equity at the Core.

For change, not for profit.

Partnering with Montana State to make self-archiving simple with Shareyourpaper.org.

“We’re excited to finally build everything we’ve learned from mediated deposit into a simple tool, rather than a dozen workarounds, this…