September 2017

New Endorsement of OA2020 from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Posted on 27. September 20172. November 2017 by Kai Karin Geschuhn

The King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST), the first institution in the Middle East to have established an open access mandate for its researchers, has now endorsed the Open Access 2020 Initiative, thanks to the direct involvement of Dr. J. K. Vijayakumar, University Librarian of KAUST. […]

Positive Outcomes of the OA2020 Transformation Workshop

Posted on 15. September 20178. November 2017 by Kai Karin Geschuhn

Participants from 8 countries in Europe and Asia participated in a 3-day workshop hosted by the Max Planck Digital Library last September with the objective of defining next steps in local roadmaps to drive the transformation of subscriptions to open access. […]