OA.Works Blog (Page 2)

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 [https://verbeeldingskr8.

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…

InstantILL released in beta, with a new website.

We’re beginning InstantILL’s Beta, and releasing a new website at InstantILL.org. Now you can learn about InstantILL and try it yourself…

Streamlined, more powerful APIs for the Open Access Button

The Open Access Button has just released an updated API that will make it simpler both to find and access an article (through publicly…

Planning for good things to come to an end

Today, we’re sharing our draft plan for succession and contingency planning. Fear not, we’re not going anywhere soon.

InstantILL is being rolled out at IUPUI. Here’s how it works.

Now we’re working to make sure other libraries, big and small, can use it.

Building shareyourpaper.org to make self-archiving the simplest way to increase a paper’s impact.

Introducing shareyourpaper.org, the simplest way for authors to legally self-archive and for your library to fill your repository. Introducing shareyourpaper.org, the simplest way for authors to legally self-archive and for your library to fill your repository.

New tool and dataset make permissions checking easier, faster, and clearer for libraries.

Together with librarians, we’re building a new way to perform permissions checking that is backed by a modern approach and informed by a…

New, powerfully simple library tool to deliver articles. No subscription needed.

Partnership with IUPUI University Library brings InstantILL to life.

Using the Open Access Button in EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) and EBSCOHost Databases

Bringing greater awareness of open access, helping our patrons, and enhancing the image of the library.

How to support fellow scholars at UC

… and many others without journal subscriptions. We’ve made it free and easy to make your paper accessible and concretely support positive change in publishing!

Encouraging authors to self-archive with tried and tested templates

Tried and tested templates to get authors educated and enthusiastic about self-archiving.