After a couple of years of working to support institutions implementing their OA policies, we're so proud to see OA.Report, our development partner, and one of our collaborators featured in Nature. We appreciate Nature bringing attention to the progress being made in more effectively implementing OA policies. Read the full story on Nature's website.

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.

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.

For three of the past four years we’ve had the honor of speaking to the Forum for Interlending in the UK about our work on integrating Open Access into Interlibrary Loan. This year, RSCVD (powered by InstantILL) took centre stage as it filled over 5000 ILL requests in the UK during COVID. Even if you couldn’t make the talk, the slides alone should provide a helpful update on RSCVD and some of our broader efforts around OA in ILL.

We’re thrilled to announce that Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, has generously committed to continue its support of our work with a four-year, $1,870,000 grant.