The European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities (ALLEA) has for many years supported the move away from proprietary models of scholarly publishing towards Open Access (OA).[1] ALLEA…
The increasing costs of publication under the Gold Open Access model and “Big Deals”
The European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities (ALLEA) has for many years supported the move…
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In August 2022, the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation published a study on EU copyright and related rights and access to and…
Echos from the Dutch legal and scientific communities indicate that opinions widely diverge on the topic of the imperative character of proposed article 25 fa) of the Dutch Copyright Act in…
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), the main public funding agency in the country, has been enforcing already for a few years an Open Access (OA) policy for the dissemination…
By Valentina Moscon, Scholarship holder at the Max Planck Institute & University of Trento
The Italian Parliament recently approved a new law concerning the valorization of culture (Law of October 7…
