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“We have failed”. With this short statement Tobias Philipp, Open Access Coordinator at the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), explained the need to revise the national Open Access (OA) strategy published in 2017. Seven years later, the target of reaching 100% of OA publications was missed by attaining only about 70%. Such a bold and… Read more:  “Open Access in Switzerland: Are we reaching the GOALs?”: A report of the panel discussion

Create your own Green OA policy in just a few clicks Green Open Access is about making content accessible to all in an easy and sustainable way. This starts with journals having a Green Open Access policy in the first place. If you are a librarian thinking about a particular journal that could benefit from… Read more: Green Open Access is easy!

Final Event Project GOAL – Thursday, 24.10.2024 The “GOAL” project, that set off to unlock the Green Open Access potential in scholarly and professional journals in Switzerland almost three years ago, is nearing its conclusion. Before the end comes, we want to spark the discussion about the current situation and future of Open Access in… Read more: Open Access in Switzerland – Are we reaching the GOALs?

GOAL at the Open Access Tage 2024 (Cologne) It is again thus far, the Open Access Tage are coming and GOAL will participate, as we did in 2022 and 2023. This year, we will present a poster that summarizes our experiences from the past three years. How are we transforming Open Access in small steps?… Read more: Green beyond: Das GOAL in kleinen Schritten erreichen

As you all know, the GOAL-Database is now online and available to everyone. If you want to learn about its content and how to suggest a policy for inclusion, please read the previous post. Understanding what you can find in our database is great, but there’s more. If you’re interested in the technical details, you… Read more: The work behind the GOAL-Database

Dear Open Access friends After lots of work, finally the GOAL-Database is online. Organised around three entangled collections, it contains information about the publishers, journals, and their policies. The database is initially available in English, but this is only the beginning. We plan to further develop its functionalities, including versions in French, German, and Italian.… Read more: The GOAL-Database is here

GOAL and the Open Access Days of 2023. The Open Access Days in Berlin are over. In keynote speeches, workshops, panels and poster presentations, the conference’s 450 participants exchanged views and experiences on shaping visions of Open Access. In short, Open Access is as alive as ever. Our colleagues are looking for creative solutions to… Read more: Of (small) steps and publication cultures.

It is hard to believe, but it has been a year since the Open Access Days took place in Bern. In 2022, the GOAL team participated with a poster. We presented our vision about how collaboration can help to foster Green Open Access and we got lots of encouragement then. This year we have been… Read more: From plan to practice – GOAL in the 2023 Berlin Open Access Days

GOAL’s stated aim is to support and develop Green Open Access in the long term. In practice, this short statement means a wide range of different actions and activities. The first thing that comes to mind is negotiating Green Open Access policies with publishers. This is a key action, but there is more to it… Read more: GOAL – Making Green Open Access (more) findable

As you all know, GOAL is committed to the expansion of Green Open Access solutions and policies. Over the past few months, we have been mapping the field, preparing ourselves with the support of CCdigitallaw, spreading the word and gathering information from interested stakeholders, be they Open Access specialists or publishers. We have also prepared… Read more: GOAL – The road of the negotiation begins to bring green results

As announced in the last post, GOAL project members participated in the webinar organised by swissuniversities on 25 May. The session was lively with 24 participants. In addition to presenting the current state of the project, it was possible to compare opinions on the (un)attractiveness of Green Open Access. The project is moving forward and,… Read more: The (un)attractiveness of Green Open Access – Thoughts and takeaways from the 25 May Webinar

Thanks to the expansion and development of Open Access during the last twenty years the way we publish and the way we access information has changed substantially. Open Access is no longer a mere dream but a reality. And yet, there is still much that can be done. The world of professional and practice-oriented journals,… Read more: Taking Green Open Access steps to close the gap – Webinar 25th of May (Thursday) at 4 p.m.

GOAL visits the Schweizerischer Verband der Verleger der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften On 24 January, two members of our project team had the opportunity to present and discuss the aims of the project and the development of (green) Open Access in Switzerland with the directorate of the Schweizerischer Verband der Verleger der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften (Swiss… Read more: The road of the dialogue.

GOAL keeps going on tour to spread the word about the potentials and benefits of Green Open Access. This time it is the International Open Access Week, which will take place between the 24th and the 28th of October. Joining forces and thus fostering collaboration, the university libraries of the HfH, PHZH, ZHAW, and ZHdK… Read more: The Open Access Week is coming – GOAL will be there

The Open Access Days are over. It has been two and a half days checking the latest developments of the Open Access German-speaking community, making contacts, and learning from each other. Open Access is well alive and kicking, and it keeps developing in different directions, from the consolidation of scholarly blogs as an alternative form… Read more: GOAL at the Open Access Days – New inputs, a poster prize, and lots of encouragement

GOAL’s commitment to unlocking the potential of green open access publishing means a commitment to explore the collaborative way between different actors: academic libraries, publishers, researchers… If you want to get an insight and discuss what it can look like, come, and meet the GOAL team in the coming Open Access Days.  We will actively participate… Read more: GOAL On Tour – Come and meet us on the Open Access Days

The first thing you must do if you want to change a landscape is to map it. Only by mapping it, it is possible to know the landscape and find what can be done to improve it. As GOAL wants to unlock the green Open Access potential, in the first phase of the project the… Read more: Mapping the (green) landscape – GOAL’s first report is online

To publish Open Access does not mean simply uploading a publication and making it freely available on the Internet. Much on the contrary, the different roads to proper Open Access publishing are marked by legal frameworks to ensure that all involved parties – the authors, their funders, the publishers, the libraries, the readers – are… Read more: Building up the (legal) basis: Project workshop with CCdigitallaw

Scholarly research is a collaborative task. Even individual projects are the result of collaboration and sharing, for they too are based on the exchange and discussion of ideas and information. If sharing is taken out of the equation, knowledge ceases to be produced, and finding solutions to challenging problems becomes increasingly difficult. Sharing information between… Read more: Making the case for (Green) Open Access: A general view