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Open Scholar signs the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment

A new international, multidisciplinary initiative recognizing the need to improve the ways in which the output of scientific research is evaluated. Open Scholar has signed the San Francisco...

LIBRE partners with CLOCKSS Archive to ensure permanent accessibility to all uploaded articles and datasets

The CLOCKSS Archive is pleased to announce that it has partnered with Open Scholar CIC to preserve the LIBRE Repository in CLOCKSS's geographically and geopolitically distributed network of redundant...

LIBRE alpha testing begins!

LIBRE enters its alpha testing development stage where a limited number of invited researchers will be trying available features to discover errors and provide valuable feedback for improvements...

Open Scholar co-founder Varvara Trachana on the impact of austerity measures on Greek Science

Open Scholar co-founder Varvara Trachana talks to Nature about the effects of austerity measures on Greek Science...

Non-profit organisation ‘Open Scholar C.I.C.’ urges scientists to join their forces against flawed academic publishing model

Media release about Open Scholar and the LIBRE project "Considering the capability of today’s technology, it wouldn’t be unreasonable to assume that scientists and researchers are able to...

Our Mission

The current academic publishing model rewards competition for a limited number of resources: publication in a few prestigious journals with excessively high rejection rates. We envision a future of...