OA.Works Blog

How we’re refocusing our work to serve the Open Access movement.

Late last year, I sat down with our friends at the Research Organization Registry (ROR) and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) to discuss how OA.Report uses ROR IDs to support HHMI with OA policy compliance checking. Read the case study This was a fantastic opportunity to celebrate the

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Available to more organizations later this year.

Some of our highlights from the past year

United Nations library event launches new initiative and collaboration.

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

New home allows us to capitalize on growth

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.

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

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

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,

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:

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.

Here’s how it works

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

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.