At an event hosted by the United Nations library, we announced the Open Climate Campaign is using ShareYourPaper to help climate scientists unlock their papers and accelerate progress on climate change. ShareYourPaper leverages self-archiving rights to make the content of papers freely available.

We’re excited to say OA.Works has received a one-year grant of 100k from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to continue developing OA.Report. This investment builds on our partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to enable more organizations to use OA.Report to discover, analyze, and unlock papers covered by OA policies or supported by their funding and staff.

We’re thrilled to announce OA.Works has joined Code for Science and Society (CS&S), a US-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit empowering communities to build technology for the public good.

Besides building the tools that make OA.Works work, team Data Wrangler Natalia Norori also uses the tools as she explores research in migration and epidemiology. In this talk at the UN, Norori dives into the difference between open and equitable, using her life experience as a Nicaraguan scientist who has been impacted by migration. Video Fast forward to hour 3, minute 35 to see Natalia’s talk.

We’re thrilled to announce that OA Works (formerly Open Access Button) has received a grant of $1.9M USD over the next three years from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The investment expands OA.Work’s efforts to streamline self-archiving through ShareYourPaper, and forges a new partnership with the foundation to develop tools that help put OA policies into practice.

Eight years ago we got our start building the Open Access Button. Since then, we’ve built ShareYourPaper, InstantILL, and our organization. We have wonderful partnerships with librarians, and new tools in the pipeline. It’s time for our name to reflect the momentum and direction of our work. Enter, OA.Works. Since the beginning we've been driven by the belief that open access works – so while our name is changing – who we are is not.

And awarded a grant to expand RSCVD’s work. In the past month, our partners for RSCVD have received an award and a grant to both strengthen and recognise its achievements! This is critical. RSCVD started as an emergency response to COVID-19 so that, as libraries were forced to close, access to research wasn’t impacted.

The team at EIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries) and their coalition at large have been doing stelar work in the repository and Open Access world for many years. So, when Iryna Kuchma (one of our original steering committee members) asked us to give a webinar on ShareYourPaper.org For Libraries we were honored. Check out our slides: Die Datei kann in Ihrem Browser nicht geöffnet werden, weil JavaScript nicht aktiviert ist.

This month, we released ShareYourPaper.org for Libraries. Leila Sterman co-designed ShareYourPaper.org and the version for libraries as the Scholarly Communication Librarian and an Assistant Professor at Montana State University Library. As 2020 came to an end, Jake Orlowitz caught up with her. How did you get started in librarianship? What's your current role? It was a meandering path to scholcomm.

Today, for free, in just 30 minutes, you can demo and set up the simplest way to legally self-archive a paper — for any repository, at any library — in order to get more deposits and save you time.