Austria's national library has struck a 30-million-euro deal with Google to digitise 400,000 copyright-free books, spanning 400 years of European history
Approximately 100,000 volumes from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library, described as the world's largest oceanography library, have been digitised and are being made publically-accessible
The European IMPACT (Improving Access to Text) project has welcomed 11 new partners from Southern and Eastern Europe
Researchers in 60 Italian universities get access to Elsevier's abstract and citation database in new deal
Journal of Clinical Oncology legacy content is now available to universities, libraries and research institutions in Germany
SAGE and the National Library of China agree a deal for access to SAGE's backfile collection
The German National Library of Science and Technology and the German National Library of Medicine have signed an extensive agreement for access to Springer eBooks
A deal between the British Library and Amazon will make 65,000 largely out-of-print 19th century titles available on Amazon via print-on-demand or as free downloads on Kindle
A collaborative study between the libraries at Cornell University and Columbia University aims to discover if the library can help doctoral students in the humanities finish their degrees
The British Library is launching an electronic collection giving an oral history of British science
Interviews for this article have been adapted from recent PhaidraCon roundtable events and from upcoming 2023 editions of EpistemiCast
Patrick Hargitt explains why 2022 became the year that accessibility got serious
Joseph Koivisto and Jordan Sly from the University of Maryland discuss the implications of the publications-as-data model
Despite the collective and decisive step changes in enabling the transition to open access this year, we should not be complacent, writes Susie Winter
Thomas Shaw and Andrew Barker from Lancaster University Library discuss the realities, challenges and future impact of open access in the research community
It’s not a question of if, but how. The future of scholarly publishing is open, yet the debate on how to accelerate the growth of open access continues
