Making Open Access Work
Knowledge Unlatched (KU) makes scholarly content freely available to everyone and contributes to the further development of the Open Access (OA) infrastructure. Our online marketplace provides libraries and institutions worldwide with a central place to support OA collections and models from leading publishing houses and new OA initiatives. With their support we transition monographs and journals in a wide variety of disciplines from paywalled to Open Access content. Additionally, KU offers various tools and services for stakeholders in the OA community. Our goal is simple: We want to make Open Access work!
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Knowledge Unlatched Renews Two Successful Open Access Collections, Ensuring Sustainability of Open Research Worldwide
In 2018, Knowledge Unlatched (KU), the central platform for Open Access (OA) financing models, has expanded into new collections and introduced new partnerships, resulting in the doubling of the number of books made available as Open Access.
wbv Media und Knowledge Unlatched (KU) schließen Pilotprojekt zur Open Access Finanzierung in der Pädagogik ab
Knowledge Unlatched is pleased to welcome two new trade partners to their international network of library suppliers: HARRASSOWITZ and SPUR Infosolutions.
As the #COVIDー19 crisis wears on, the Sharjah Public Libraries unlock their book holdings in English, Arabic and other languages for three month long free access for readers around the world upon their registration https://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/books/sharjah-public-libraries-to-give-free-access-to-6-million-digital-books-worldwide-1.997963
On the Eiffel Tower day, Samuel England's book casts a broad glance over high culture at the cusp of the Renaissance, e.g. during the last moments of the Abbasid Empire, the counter-Crusade under Saladin and the literature of sovereignty in Spain and Italy https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/1177f023-7265-4545-b32c-b223a1625ceb
Since journal publishing involves both fixed and variable costs, Open Access models need to demonstrate both financial sustainability and market competitiveness, such as on both the demand, e.g., researchers, and supply sides, to be viable in the long term https://undark.org/2020/03/30/science-publishing-open-acess/