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Discover more open access success stories
Open access - the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research – can transform scholarship and its impact. Last year, in Open Access Week 2011, Knowledge Exchange launched a new website to demonstrate this transformation in action, www.oastories.org.The site features compelling open access success stories from across Europe told by a wide variety of stakeholders from individual researchers and journal editors to publishers and companies and cover a multitude of disciplines. All demonstrate the benefits of open access, sometimes in quite unexpected ways.
Those initial stories were just the start of the project and the website is growing to encompass more tales of open access success. The latest batch of stories are now online. They include a young Italian open access cancer journal that has expanded into other forms of media to change the way that cancer research is accessed globally; a Norwegian Polar journal that has successfully moved from a subscription model to open access for competitive advantage; and two longstanding German 'families' of journals – Living Reviews and GIGA.
More stories will follow in the Open Access Week 2012, which runs from October 22-28.
Open for re-use
The stories can be found on a dedicated, easy-to-use website and are open for comments and ready to share. They are not only free for all to read and refer to, but they are also licensed under a creative commons licence. To allow for easier re-use, stories and images are available for download from the Knowledge Exchange website at: http://www.knowledge-exchange.info/Default.aspx?ID=492
The website showing the Open Access success stories can be found at:
Please use the twittertag #oastories when sharing the stories.
Got an open access success story to share?
Click the 'Your story' button on www.oastories.org to find out how to share your story.
About Knowledge Exchange
Knowledge Exchange is a co-operative effort that supports the use and development of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) infrastructure for higher education and research. The European partners of Knowledge Exchange, DEFF, DFG, JISC and SURF, share a common vision based on their four national strategies. That vision is: To make a layer of scholarly and scientific content openly available on the internet. In order to realise this goal, the partners work on supporting existing and new programmes on national and international levels, co-ordinating efforts on building an integrated repository infrastructure, exploring new developments in the future of publishing, facilitating integrated management services within education and research institutions and supporting libraries in the digital age.
For further information: www.knowledge-exchange.info
Best regards,
Keith
Keith Russell
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